Charles Arkoll Boulton
Charles Arkoll Boulton , born the April 17th 1841 with Cobourg in the Ontario and deceased the May 15th 1899 with Russel with the Manitoba, was a Canadian soldier famous for its action during the rebellions of the river Rouge and the North-western.
Grandson of D' Arcy Boulton it studies with the Upper Canada College. He is used for Gibraltar, Malta and Montreal with the 100e Régiment with foot. In 1869, whereas it belongs to a team charged to carry out the cadastral survey of the colony of the Red Rivière, it is charged by its team leader, the colonel John Stoughton Dennis, to recruit some volunteers to choke the rising orchestrated by Louis Riel. When 50 of its volunteers are captured and imprisoned, he flees towards Portage the Meadow. He meets there some survivors, with whom he tries to assemble a rescue operation. Captured by the Mongrel of Riel, it later is released and returned in Ontario.
Installed close to Lakefield (Ontario), it there has a sawmill and becomes city council man then president of the council. When its business périclite and goes bankrupt finally in 1877, it settles in the valley of the Shell to rivet, with the Manitoba, of which he becomes the first person in charge then the president of the legal adviser of the district of the west in 1881.
It carries out in 1885 a group of militiamans charged to help the federal troops to crush the rebellion of the North-West. It is named member of the Sénat of Canada in 1889.
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