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[brokehorrorfan]

Invaders from Mars will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 11 via Ignite Films. Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the 1953 science fiction film was the first feature to show aliens in color.

William Cameron Menzies (Things to Come) directs from a script by Richard Blake. Jimmy Hunt, Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Morris Ankrum, Leif Erickson, and Hillary Brooke star.

Invaders from Mars has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interviews with actor Jimmy Hunt, director William Cameron Menzies’ biographer James Curtis, and Menzies’ eldest granddaughter Pamela Lauesen

Featurette with filmmakers John Landis and Joe Dante, editor Mark Goldblatt, special visual effects artist Robert Skotak, and film preservationist Scott MacQueen

2022 introduction by filmmaker John Sayles at Turner Classic Movies Festival

Alternate ending and extended planetarium scene from Alternate International version (restored in 2K)

Before/after clips of restoration with film restoration supervisor Scott MacQueen

Image gallery with press book pages and photos from the restoration process

Original trailer (restored in 4K)

2022 trailer

On a dark and stormy night, a young boy, David McLean (Jimmy Hunt), observes what appears to be a flying saucer crash-landing in his town. Shortly thereafter, the grown-ups - including his own parents - begin acting decidedly strangely. Convinced there's a link between this epidemic of bizarre behavior and what he witnessed that night, David turns to local health official Dr. Blake (Helena Carter) for help. But can these two unlikely heroes, together with famed astronomer Dr. Kelston (Arthur Franz), withstand the might of a full-blown invasion from outer space?

Pre-order Invades from Mars.

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[teadocs]

No one has expanded on Leaf (the organ harvester) and I’m afraid to ask??????

Ah yes, Leaf.

So basically this man has an interesting time with the TD universe. For starters, he's only on and involved with S1. And that's because he was living on the land (homeless by choice) where they were filming on Wawanakwa and Chris Mclean was like either join the show or gtfo and Leaf (his legal name is spelled Leif but he likes it better the other way) was like okay sure I'll join.

Then Chris said you gotta wear a shirt, we can't have nips on national TV. Leaf said no. They forced him to put on this vest which Leaf writes on it "FREE THE NIPPLE". He's voted (*cough* kicked *cough*) off first in which he rips the vest off and ditches.

Now about the organ harvesting... it started out as a joke between us because we knew Leaf was kinda a weirdo. I mean he voluntarily lives in the middle of fucking nowhere northern Canada which is a little sus. And then it got joked about so much it became canon.

I don't know too much about organ harvesting (it's for the best) but this man is just lurking around... so watch out ;)

#kenzie answers #leaf sheldon

[sarahjsims]

when leif pulls back, they know their hesitation and concern are showing. they can’t help it.

leif: please tell me my hypothesis was correct...

rather than responding, jace spins them around and kisses them again.

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[minidovecomics]

leif erikson day (2019)

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[hiddenwashington]

Anonymous asked: Psst, could I please get some most wanted from Percy Jackson, pirates of the caribbean, DC and Animal Crossing?

you sure can, nonnie!! from percy jackson we’d love to see: percy jackson, grover underwood, thalia grace, jason grace, luke castellan, hades, atremis, piper mclean and any of the hespredies! from priates of carribean we’d love to see: elizabeth swann, will turner, jack sparrow, henry turner, carina smyth-barbossa, mr gibbs and hector barbossa! from dc we’d love to see: selina kyle, bruce wayne, dick grayson, jason todd, barbra gordon, pamela isley, donna troy, arthur curry, hal jordan, barry allen and anyone from doom patrol! and from animal crossing we’d love to see: leif, celeste, tom nook, timmy, tommy and flick! 

#anonymous #most wanted #percy jackson rp #pirates of the carribean rp #dc rp #animal crossing rp #admin jodie

[sci-firenegade]

Got tagged by @stillthesunkenstars and @therogueofblood (nitro-ace doesn’t exist anymore). Thank you!

Rules: Give a sample of your music taste. Shuffle your music and share 10 songs from your collection.

How the heck do I do that? I’ve only got playlists saved on random places?? Number generator, here we go!

1. Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy IX) - Out Of The Frying Pan (Lindblum Bar)

2. Linkin Park - Breaking the Habbit

3. Leif Garrett - Play that Funky Music

4. Don McLean - Crying

5. Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy VI) - Celes

6. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

7. Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger) - Courage and Pride

8. Sheiks - Summertime

9. Mika - We are Golden

10. Conjunto Universitário Hi-Fi - I Call Your Name

Weird...

tagging whoever wants to do this :)

[k2kid]

William Robb Dewar was Canadian. He was Scottish. He was subject of the British Empire and after living in Canada for three years upon landing in Canada he achieved the status of being a Canadian citizen. This was his right under The Immigration Act, S.C. 1910, c. 27. He earned that right fully with his service to his adoptive country enlisting with the C.E.F. on October 26, 1914 and being demobilized from the army on April 11, 1918. He served 1,264 days with the C.E.F. representing 14% of his lifespan, up to that time. The balance of his lifespan would be influenced by his wartime service and his physical and mental health were affected by his army service.

Private William “Billy” Dewar was known to the Battalion outside his immediate platoon and company. He was the first soldier of the Battalion to be wounded and it is with certainty that this event was shared amongst the troops at the time it happened and after the war at the yearly reunions the 18th Battalion Association had.

His obituary reflects the experience of a veteran at that time and the following newspaper obituary and notice is illuminating to the time and to the changing world since Private Dewar’s Death.

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Private Dewar died of myocarditis and coronary thrombosis. Family lore relates that his health was poor after the war and near the end of his life he had been in and out of the Westminster Hospital at London, Ontario for many times before his conditioned worsened. The report of his death on his Veterans Death Card indicates that his death was due to his military service and this is how the family remembers the circumstances and cause of his death.

Dundas Street Centre Methodist (later United) Church, Interior View, London, Ontario. 1896.

He was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion at the Royal Canadian Legion #263 Duchess of Kent in London, Ontario. This Legion was located close to where the Dewar family lived in London and has since been amalgamated with Royal Canadian Legion #317 Victory Branch. The obituary indicates he was an “adherent” of the Dundas Centre United Church but this detail was inserted for public consumption by his wife, Jean Dewar, as he never went to church again after the war and any association with a church would have been through the efforts of his wife, who was very active with every church to which she was a member. His membership in Freemasonry would appear to contradict this fact and the context of his membership is not known though membership requires the recognition of a “Supreme Being”. Perhaps Private Dewar’s issue was the expression of a religion through an organized institution and he preferred a private expression to his conception of a supreme being? This would reconcile the apparent contradiction between his dislike of organized religion as he would not attend church, funerals, or weddings in a building representing conventional Christian religion.

The first article gives a broad biographical view of his life, very typical of the British and Imperial influence on Canadian immigration at the turn of the 20th century:

DEWAR, GALT WAR VETERAN, SUCCUMBS; SERVED WITH 18th BATT.

William Dewar, a veteran of the last war, and for 14 years a resident of London, died yesterday in Westminster Hospital, age 46 years. He had been in ill health [before being] brought to hospital only [four] days ago.

Mr. Dewar was born at Leif Scotland, a son of Mr. and Mrs. David Dewar, now of Galt. [He] came to London and enlisted with the 18th Battalion[1] and [went] overseas for four years and [was twice] wounded. He lived in London [for] 14 years after his return from overseas and only [last] summer moved with his family to Galt. [He] was a member of the Duchess Kent No. 263, Canadian Legion, of the 18th Battalion Association, Galt Lodge A.F. & A. He was an adherent of Dundas Centre United Church in this city.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jean Dewar; three children, William, Millicent, and Ruth; his parents in Galt, and three sisters, Mrs. Hugh Gordon and Mrs. Alfred McCann of Galt, and Mrs. [?] Little, of Kitchener.

The funeral will be held from the Harrison and Skinner funeral home tomorrow at 2.30 p.m. [to] Woodland Cemetery. The service will be in charge of Rev. Dr. William Beattie and Rev. Dr. C.V. McLean.

Source: Possibly the London Free Press. April 19, 1918.

The next notice points to Private Dewar’s loyalty to his unit — Every one of the pallbearers is was a member of the 18th Battalion:

WILLIAM DEWAR – The funeral of William Dewar, who died Thursday at Westminster Hospital in his 46th year, was held at 2.30 o’clock this afternoon from the Harrison & Skinner funeral home. Major the Rev. Dr. William Beattie conducted the service, assisted by Rev. Dr. C.V. McLean, pastor of Dundas Centre United Church. The pallbearers were: Robert Bell[i], Thomas Davies[ii], William Waite[iii] and George [Cruickshank[iv]]s. Interment was made in Woodland Cemetery.

Source: Possibly the London Free Press. April 20, 1918.

Reverend William Beattie. Source: Canadian Letters.

Of note is the service being presided by Reverend William Beattie. Reverend Beattie was a senior member of the C.E.F. Chaplain Service having served as the Senior Chaplain for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisions.

Robert Bell was not an ‘original’ member of the Battalion. He originally enlisted with the 70th Overseas Battalion in London, Ontario on October 20, 1915. By this time the 18th Battalion was well in the fighting at Ypres and he joined the Battalion in time to be wounded, earning a wound stripe, at the action a Courcelette on the Somme on October 5, 1916, just three weeks after his arrival to active service. He did not serve with Private Dewar but likely made his acquaintance after the war in London.

Thomas Davies enlisted in Galt the day before Private Dewar and they held consecutive regimental numbers, 53901 and 51902, respectively. Davies was a transplanted Welshman who later earned the rank of sergeant with the Battalion. He was three years senior of Private Dewar, being 23-years old when he enlisted. He served the Battalion well, though he had a small altercation while drunk at Boulogne which resulted from the subsequent Field General Court Martial with the loss of his lance-corporal stripes. The Battalion obviously held Davies in high regard because after this sentence was implemented in August 1917 he became a sergeant by January of 1918. The charges, being affected by another unit outside the Battalion family had little bearing on the regard the Battalion had for Davies and his martial abilities led to a series of promotions after his conviction.

William Waite was from Windlesham, Surrey, England and an original member of the Battalion, enlisting October 23, 1914 at London, Ontario having had prior military experience with the Royal West Kent Regiment. He served the entire war with the C.E.F. on the Continent and, after suffering from “shell shock” from his experience on the September 15, 1916 attach at Flers-Courcelette, was assigned to the 2nd Canadian Entrenching Battalion after his recovery from October 1916 to his return to the 18th Battalion in August 1917. He appears to have lived in London after the war and shared the same trade as Private Dewar as they were both carpenters.

George Barker Cruickshank was a machinist. He was also the senior member of this group of men, enlisting at the ripe old age of 31-years of age. Private “Billy” Dewar was the youngest at 20-years. He enlisted in Galt, Ontario two days after Private Dewar, on October 28, 1914. He had prior military experience with the Royal Army Medical Corp have served with this unit for 3 years. Being born at Glasgow, Scotland, he was a fellow Scot and they shared a geographic connection with their heritage and background. He served with the Battalion from it inception and served in the Ypres sector until contracting trench fever, which necessitated treatment. He was out of action from June 1916 until his return to the Battalion at war’s end on October 17, 1918.

All these men served with the 18th Battalion, and some, like Cruickshank and Davies, probably where in the same company as they were recruited together in Galt. Almost certainly they were together as they left Galt to go to London where the 18th was forming up.[v] They may have trained together and then served together until the wounding of Private “Billy” Dewar in September 1915.[vi] From their, circumstance almost insured that these men would not serve together continuously as illness, wounds and re-assignments took the course of their military service.

Perhaps it was after the war that the real bond between these men was formed from their share experiences serving with the “Fighting 18th”. It was certainly no accident that each of the pall bearers was a veteran and a former member of the Battalion in which Private Dewar served.

The designation of Major Rev. Dr. William Beattie as the officiant at the funeral is an interesting detail. Reverend Beattie was a senior member of the Canadian Chaplains Service serving as the Senior Divisional Chaplain for each of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Canadian Divisions during his service. He was also, ironically, the only native born Canadian soldier in this article. It would be interesting to know how he became involved in the service. Was it a duty he felt necessary to carry out after the war for any veteran who passed, or did he have a personal connection with Private Dewar that insured this senior chaplain would preside over the funeral of a lowly private with a good conduct stripe?

The mist of time and memory have obscured the details of the funeral of Private William Robb Dewar, reg. no. 53902. He was honoured by being put to rest with his comrades and a senior officer of the C.E.F. was part of the funeral service. The last soldier who would have been able to share this moment of time, Thomas Davies, died on New Years Eve at the age of 71 fifty-five years ago. Thus, this event is lost in time forever.

Regardless, we continue to remember them.

            [1] He enlisted with the 18th Battalion in Galt, Ontario and then went to London to train with this unit.

  [i] Bell, Robert:  Service no. 124178

[ii] Davies, Thomas:  Service no. 53901

[iii] Waite, William Stephen:  Service no. 53169

[iv] Cruickshank, George Barker:  Service no. 54014

[v] See the blog article “The Drummer Sergeant” for some detail about the men from Galt who traveled to London upon their enlistment.

[vi] See this blog article with details of the wounding of Private Dewar. He was the first soldier of the Battalion to be wounded due to action.

Loyal to the End: The Passing of “Billy” Dewar William Robb Dewar was Canadian. He was Scottish. He was subject of the British Empire and after living in Canada for three years upon landing in Canada he achieved the status of being a Canadian citizen.

#coronary thrombosis #Dundas Centre United Church #Galt Ontario #George Barker Cruickshank: Service no. 54014 #Harrison and Skinner funeral home #London Ontario #Major Rev. Dr. William Beattie #myocarditis #Robert Bell: Service no. 124178 #Royal Canadian Legion 263 Duchess of Kent #Royal Canadian Legion 317 Victory Branch #Thomas Davies: Service no. 53901 #Westminster Hospital #William Stephen Waite: Service no. 53169

[esprit-de-corps-magazine]

HUNTING BIG BEAR: Bringing The North-West Rebellion To A Close

(Volume 24-09)

By Jon Guttman

Resentment over the failure of the government to live up to their treaty obligations, the Cree rose in armed revolt. The Canadian military response was relentless in its pursuit of the perpetrators.

 Although neither as epic nor bloody as the Civil War and the numerous, widespread Indian Wars fought in the United States throughout the 18th century, Canada’s North-West Rebellion of 1885 encapsulated many elements of those tragedies attending its southern neighbour’s westward development. Both nations’ conflicts involved issues of government, nationality, citizenship and justice, as well as the less abstract matter of land ownership.

Even while fighting each other, both Union and Confederate soldiers occasionally had to deal with hostile Native Americans on their frontiers. Likewise, while the Canadian Army fought the Métis, it also had to detach two columns to subdue restive First Nations. As a final parallel touch, on May 10, 1869, the United States completed its first transcontinental railroad and on November 7, 1885, Canada did the same — its progress largely accelerated by the requirements of war.

The North-West Rebellion began on March 19, 1885, when Métis leader Louis David Riel established the Provisional Government of Saskatchewan, after which an attempt was made by North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) and Prince Albert Volunteers under Superintendent Leif Crozier to arrest him on March 26th, only to be routed at Duck Lake, 2.5 kilometres from Riel’s self-proclaimed capital of Batoche. While the Métis were fighting for their land and their way of life, however, the region’s First Nations had more existential grievances. A decline in the bison population, combined with lapses in the government’s distribution of rations in accordance with its own Treaty 6 caused widespread hunger that drove many tribes to request renegotiation. Although there is no evidence of a direct alliance between the Métis and the First Nations, influential spokesmen such as the Blackfoot chief, Crowfoot, averted violence among most of the Aboriginals. However, two small bands, largely encouraged by word of the recent Métis success at Duck Lake, became involved in their own concurrent private wars with Ottawa.

On March 30, a band of Cree led by Poundmaker (Pîhtokahânapiwyin) tried to speak to John M. Rae, the Indian agent at Battleford, but were put off for two days. In consequence, some of Poundmaker’s starving people began looting abandoned homes in the area. While the Cree milled about Fort Battleford, Assiniboine warriors from the Eagle Hills, moving to join Poundmaker, killed two farmers along the way, adding to the frightened white residents’ perception that they were under siege.

Hunger and resentment led to an even greater tragedy at Frog Lake in what is now Alberta. There, some 250 Wood Cree nominally led by Big Bear (Mistahimaskwa) camped outside of the Hudson’s Bay Company post on April 2. Big Bear was an old and respected statesman, not least for his refusal to sign Treaty 6, but when his people were forced to settle in reserves anyway, his authority began to decline. Although Big Bear tried to moderate the younger, more volatile braves, the real power in his band was shared by his son, Little Bear (Ayimisis) and his war chief and shaman, Wandering Spirit (Kapapamahchakwew).

The focus of their resentment was Indian agent Thomas Trueman Quinn, who had long denied them rations with harshness and arrogance. Just before 1100 hours, the Cree ordered all of Frog Lake’s residents to their encampment two kilometres away. When Quinn flatly refused to leave, Wandering Spirit shot him in the head. This touched off several minutes of panic and frenzy marked by more shooting by the Cree, resulting in the deaths of sawmill operator John Gowanlock, farming instructor John Delaney, clerk William Gilchrist, trader George Dill, carpenter Charles Gouin, Catholic priests Félix Marchand and Léon Fafard, and Fafard’s lay assistant, John Williscroft. A tenth man present, Hudson’s Bay clerk William Bleasdell Cameron, survived only because Cree women hid him under a large shawl until the braves’ rancour cooled down. He and widows Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock were then rounded up with other locals, totalling 70, and forced to accompany the war band as captives. The agent’s nephew, Henry Quinn, managed to escape and report what had transpired.

On April 13, Big Bear’s band surrounded Fort Pitt and issued an ultimatum for its North-West Mounted Police to surrender. Big Bear, however, separately contacted an old friend there, Hudson’s Bay Company trader W.H. McLean, assuring him that his people’s fight was only with the “government people” and advised him to put all civilians under his protection. The next day the 26 NWMP (including Inspector Francis Dickens, son of author Charles Dickens) escaped, save for one man killed, one wounded and one captured. Although the Cree ransacked the fort, true to Big Bear’s word they left the civilians unmolested.

Meanwhile, retribution was on the way as Prime Minister John A. McDonald’s government dispatched a North-West Field Force to deal with the Métis rebellion. Alternately riding on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and marching along the uncompleted stretches, the army divided three ways upon arrival in Saskatchewan. While the main force of 900 soldiers and militia, led by MGen Frederick Dobson Middleton, departed Fort Qu’Appelle for Batoche on April 10, a separate column under LCol William D. Otter left Swift Current on the 13th to relieve Fort Battleford and a third column of more than 500 troops and NWMP under MGen Thomas B. Strange left Calgary for Edmonton, charged with bringing Big Bear to ground.

Otter reached Fort Battleford on the 24th, only to find Poundmaker’s combined band of Cree and Assiniboine long gone — they had retired to his reserve at Cut Knife Creek, 40 kilometres to the west. Angry locals pressed Otter to chastise the Indians for their looting spree and although General Middleton had ordered him to stay in Battleford, he obtained telegraphed authorization from Edgar Dewdney, lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territory, to “punish Poundmaker.” On May 2, the Canadians reached the Cree reserve and attacked, but the 50 braves who opposed them, operating in four to five man squads under the direction of Poundmaker’s war chief, Fine Day (Kamiokisihwew), inflicted stinging casualties and were threatening to outflank the soldiers when Otter, recalling the fate of U.S. Army LCol George A. Custer at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, ordered a withdrawal. The Battle of Cut Knife Hill was the greatest First Nations victory of the war, but everyone involved knew it would not affect its ultimate outcome. After the fall of Batoche and the capture of Louis Riel on May 15, Poundmaker and his starving tribesmen began giving themselves up. By the end of the month, only Big Bear and his Cree remained at large.

The man on their trail, Thomas Bland Strange, had been born in Meerut, India, on September 15, 1831. A veteran of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, he later became a founding officer of the Canadian Army and particularly of its artillery, where he earned the nickname of “Gunner Jingo.” By 1885, he had retired to Calgary to raise cavalry horses, but when war broke out an old friend, Minister of Militia and Defence Adolphe-Philippe Caron, cajoled him out of retirement to organize a field force in Alberta. He did so, though most of his 375 infantrymen and 100 mounted ranch hands were woefully inexperienced. Fortunately for Strange, his three Assiniboine scouts and 25 Mounted Police were not, especially their commander, Inspector Samuel Benfield Steele, a founding member and already a legend of the NWMP. When Strange summoned him in early April, Steele was feverishly ill and otherwise engaged, dealing with 1,200 unpaid railroad workers threatening to strike. At one point facing down some 700 angry workers and reading them the riot act, Steele managed to defuse the situation and maintain peace until April 7, when — largely through his own pleas to the Canadian Pacific — the workers’ long-overdue pay finally arrived. Soon afterward, he joined Strange at Calgary. Strange ordered the NWMP to affect cowboy dress, claiming that their conspicuous red uniforms made his eyes ache. He made a unique exception of Steele, who he said, “could not give up the swagger of his scarlet tunic, and I did not ask him to make the sacrifice.”

On May 25, Strange’s column reached Fort Pitt, which the Cree had burned before retiring into the nearby hills. Strange’s pursuit was punctuated by minor skirmishes until the night of the 27th, when his troops reached Frenchman’s Butte. On the hill east of it, Wandering Spirit ordered his warriors to dig trenches and rifle pits.

The next morning, Wandering Spirit selected 200 braves to man the defences, while the rest, under Little Poplar, guarded the women and children two miles to the east. Strange advanced on their position at 6 a.m. and opened fire with his cannon, to which the Cree replied with a fusillade. As the Canadian troops advanced, however, they discovered the valley to be a morass of muskeg, followed by a stretch of open hillside rendering a frontal assault suicidal. Strange pulled them back and redeployed them with the RCMP on the left flank, the 65th Battalion, Mount Royal Rifles and Winnipeg Light Infantry Battalion in the centre and the Alberta Mounted Rifles on the right.

Strange then ordered Steele and his Mounties to ride along the creek on the Crees’ right, find a crossing and flank them. Wandering Spirit, however, took four or five men and led them along the wooded ridge, firing on the NWMP whenever they tried to cross the creek. After a mile and a half of trying, Steele pulled back, reporting hundreds of Aboriginals along the ridge — thoroughly deceived by the actual number he’d faced.

Meanwhile, other Cree managed to get around the Alberta Mounted Rifles and almost overran the supply train. At that point, three hours into the engagement, Strange, like Otter at Cut Knife Hill, expressed concern of “committing Custer” and retreated back to Fort Pitt. Frenchman’s Butte was a virtually bloodless victory for the Cree, but it only bought them a short reprieve from pursuit by Steele’s relentless Mounties and mounted militia he’d formed called Steele’s Scouts. In an encounter on May 29, Steele’s Scouts exchanged fire with some Cree and killed one of them, Mamenook.

On June 3, General Middleton arrived at Fort Pitt with 200 troops and assumed command of Strange’s column. Meanwhile, Big Bear’s band had withdrawn into the swampy wilderness to the northeast, hoping the terrain would discourage the Canadians, but Steele, leading 47 NWMP, Steele’s Scouts and Alberta Mounted Rifles, remained determined to “get his man” (or in this case, men). He caught up with 150 of them at Loon Lake. Though low on ammunition, the warriors made a spirited stand, wounding seven men, including Steele’s long-time deputy, Sergeant Billy Fury. Anywhere from four to 12 Cree were killed and dozens wounded, before they disengaged and withdrew into the woods, their ammunition all but spent. Loon Lake, since renamed Steele Narrows, was the last battle fought on Canadian soil.

With their position clearly hopeless, the Cree released some captives on June 18, with a message entreating “our Great Mother, the Queen, to stop the Government soldiers and Red Coats from shooting us.” Soon thereafter, they turned themselves in, along with their remaining captives, at Fort Pitt. A notable exception was Big Bear, who, with his 12-year-old youngest son, Horse Child, somehow slipped through the NWMP cordon and walked 100 miles to Fort Carleton, 100 miles to the east, before surrendering to a surprised sergeant on July 2.

The North-West Rebellion was over, save for the retribution. In the trial that followed in Regina, Wandering Spirit, Little Bear, Round the Sky, Bad Arrow, Miserable Man and Iron Body were sentenced to death for their part in the Frog Lake Massacre. They and two other Cree warriors convicted of murder were hanged in Battleford on November 27, the largest mass execution in Canadian history. Big Bear was spared their fate, largely through William Cameron’s testimony that he had opposed the shootings and had saved his life. However, in spite of Henry Ross Halpin’s testimony that he considered Big Bear as much a captive of the warrior band as he had been, the old chief was convicted of treason on September 11 and presiding judge Hugh Richardson sentenced him and Poundmaker to three years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary. Released due to failing health in February 1887, Big Bear spent his last days with his daughter at the Little Pine reserve until his death January 17, 1888, aged 62. Having been baptized while in prison, his remains were buried in the reserve’s Catholic cemetery.

[sarahjsims]

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[sarahjsims]

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[sarahjsims]

leif: the favour you need has something to do with... out here? i’m afraid i don’t understand.

jace doesn’t seem to know where to look, gaze moving from anywhere but leif’s face. he doesn’t answer, doesn’t dare speak, and leif frowns at the unusual behaviour.

leif: jace? are you alright?

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[sarahjsims]

jace lets out a shaky breath and leif shifts closer.

leif: can i ask... were you jealous?

jace: ...you can’t prove anything.

leif can’t help but let a small laugh bubble out of them. they don’t think they have ever seen jace pout like that before.

leif: maybe not. but... there are other things i can do.

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[sarahjsims]

jace: then again, i should probably go, too, it looks like it’s gonna rain soon —

leif: — jace.

jace only stops when leif takes his hand and squeezes it. he looks between leif’s face and their joined hands in surprise.

leif: jace. why did you pull me away from gwen?

their voice is calm, but they don’t feel at all collected.

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[sarahjsims]

jace: ...it’s fine, forget about it.

leif: really? you dragged me all the way out here.

jace: no, it’s fine, i... i wasn’t thinking. go back to... whatever you were talking about with gwen.

any semblance of eye contact given by jace disappears the moment he mentions gwen, and leif, ever the observant one, raises an eyebrow. the gears in their head turn, running over all the possible reasons at a mile a minute. the conclusion they come to makes them hopeful, but also incredibly wary, just in case they’re wrong.

leif: jace —

jace: — i’ll just stick around here for a bit, i need a bit of air anyway —

leif: — jace.

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[sarahjsims]

maxine: hey, that was solely through sheer pettiness because i wanted to prove to that asshole burton that i was stronger than him and his noodle arms.

jace: but you did it, though. that’s the —

jace stops when he hears a familiar laugh, eyes immediately searching for the source. it doesn’t take long. despite the happy atmosphere between the two by the bookcases, he frowns.

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[sarahjsims]

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