The Sands of Time : A Battleford Historical Society Publication “The Cree Rebellion of 1884”

Campbell Innes (1886-1961) was a Saskatchewan historian and teacher. After arriving in Battleford in 1920, Innes worked to preserve the region’s history. He helped form the Battleford Historical Society in 1924 (later, the Canadian North-West Historical Society), acting as its secretary and editor. In later years, he was a driving force in Fort Battleford's historical restoration. This volume reprints Innes’ “The Cree Rebellion of 1884, or, Sidelights on Indian Conditions Subsequent to 1876,” initially published by the Battleford Historical Society in 1926. In it, Innes gathered reports and interviews describing First Nations life in the North-West, focussing on an 1884 confrontation and standoff at Little Pine reserve during the NWMP’s arrest of an Indigenous man. “The Sands of Time” adds a biography of Innes, as well as several memorial tributes praising his historical work.