George Flett

George Flett was a Presbyterian missionary in what is now Manitoba, Canada. Flett was of Orkney and Cree descent. As a young man he farmed on the White Horse Plains, led a gold exploration party to Edmonton and then became the first post master for the Hudsons Bay Company at Fort Victoria, Alberta. Flett was an interpreter to the first Presbyterian mission to the northwest between 1866 and 1867. After serving as a delegate in the provisional government of Louis Riel during the Red River Rebellion, he became a missionary among the Ojibwa of Okanese Reserve, serving from 1873 to 1895.

George Flett was born onFebruary 1817 at Moose Lake, the third of five sons. Fletts parents had originally been married according to the custom of the country. They formalized the union in December 1823, when they were married by a Church of England minister and their sons were baptized. George Flett was educated at the parish school. He married Mary Ross onNovember 1840. Mary was daughter of Alexander Ross, an immigrant from the highlands of Scotland who had been a chief trader for the Pacific Fur Company and then for the North West Company. Her mother was Sally Timentwa, daughter of an Okanase chief. In later years, Marys familiarity with Indian languages and customs was to prove an advantage in their mission work. In 1861 their daughter Letitia married Alexander Murray, who was to be elected to the Manitoba parliament in 1874 and to have a distinguished career in politics.

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