JOSEPH MONKMAN HELPS DR. SCHULTZ ESCAPE TO DULUTH
Story in the Winnipeg Telegraph, June 9, 1899
"Joseph Monkman...was one of the bravest and most interesting men of the old pioneer days. He helped hide Dr. Schultz from the REBEL RIEL and, when the doctor's wounded leg permitted, he took him on that historic journey to the east. They dared not take the beaten road, but went round-about way to Fort Alexander [HBC post], Dr. Schultz in a carry-all [cariole, or dogsled] ran by dogs over the snow...Everyone knows how Monkman brought the doctor safely to the English mission at Fort Alexander [on the Winnipeg River], but that was only the first stay of a long & perilous journey. Sometimes they had to depend on Joseph Monkman's gun for food."
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Cariole
[Dogsled] |
Oliver Monkman claimed that his father James Monkman rescued
Schultz in a sleigh after he escaped from Upper Fort Garry. Monkman covered
Schultz with a rabbit skin and whisked him away with his father's fast
horses. Schultz stayed with various settlers before ending up at Joseph
Monkman's house at St. Peter's.5