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Samuel Edmour St. Onge Chapleau fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1862-1900.

Reference:

R2086-0-X-E, MG30-E309

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102252

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Samuel Edmour St. Onge Chapleau fonds
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Fonds includes:

6 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1862-1900.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

15 p. of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of five certificates of commission, 1862, 1866, 1900, appointing Chapleau to military and civil offices.

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Chapleau, Samuel Edmour St. Onge, 1839-1921

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Chapleau, Samuel Edmour St. Onge, 1839-1921 : Samuel Edmour St. Onge Chapleau was born in Syracuse, New York and was educated in Terrebonne. He returned to the United States and at the outbreak of the Civil War, enlisted in the Union Army. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1862, a Captain in 1866, and ended the war as a Major.

In 1871, he returned to Canada and in 1873 entered the civil service. He became Secretary of the Department of Public Works and was Sheriff of the Northwest Territories at the time of Louis Riel's hanging. In 1900, he was appointed Clerk of the Senate, Clerk of Parliaments, and Master in the Chancery. He retired in 1917 and in 1921 was buried in Arlington Cemetery.

See: Canadian Who's Who, 1910 p. 42.

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General note:

Received in 1978, from Mrs. Sally Coates of Ottawa.
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United States. Army - Appointments and retirements, 1862-1866 Canada. Parliament. Senate, 1900

Canada - Officials and employees, 1900 Abraham Lincoln, 1862

Certificates (of office) - Canada Andrew Johnson, 1862

Canada. Parliament - Officials and employees, 1900 Lord Minto, 1900

Canada - Officials and employees - Selection and appointment, 1900

Clerk of the Senate of Canada - Selection and appointment, 1900

Chancery of Canada, Master in the - Selection and appointment, 1900

Oath of Alligiance, Administrator of the - Selection and appointment, 1900

United States. Army - Officers, 1862, 1866
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MG30-E309
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[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [MG30 E 309] 1--6

[Consultation 90 Open]

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