Honor%C3%A9 Jackson
William Henry Jackson , also known as Honor Jackson or Jaxon, was secretary to Louis Riel during the NorthWest Rebellion in Canada in 1885. He was married to Aime, a former teacher in Chicago.
He was born in Toronto, Ontario to a Methodist family but several years later his family moved to Wingham, Ontario. Jackson later attended the University of Toronto foryears however due to his fathers bankruptcy, was unable to complete his last year. In 1881 he moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan , where he soon began to sympathize with the Mtis and their struggle against the Canadian government, though he was not a Mtis himself. Jackson became personal secretary to Louis Riel when Riel returned to Canada in 1884, and the two organized a Mtis militia and made plans for a provisional government. Open fighting broke out between the disgruntled Metis and police forcesarmed civilian volunteers on Marchat Duck Lake.
Source: Wikipedia