MARIAS RIVER, MONTANA 1870 event
and PACE Connections

An Uncelebrated Anniversary
Witnesses To Carnage
.....The 1870 Marias Massacre in Montana

All three brothers
- FRED, HENRY and SIDNEY PACE.....came from the:

LONDON PACE FAMILY of CLOCKMAKERS
- We have new info from DAVID PACE of LONDON, England who has discovered this web page and realizes, these early ALBERTA gentlemen were from his LONDON PACE Family ancestry.

LONDON PACE FAMILY of CLOCKMAKERS
new web page - with input from DAVID PACE of LONDON who has written 2 PACE books and compiled a lot of PACE Family history going back to MAISEMORE in Gloucestershire
FRED & HENRY PACE had sisters

FRED & HENRY PACE had sisters
ADELAIDE MARY DUNCAN
& EMMA POCOCK
of Bristol GLS England

I remember my grandmother, in Montreal, telling me about these sisters who came out from ENGLAND to ALBERTA after FRED PACE died in 1898 at Standoff to take Fred's children back to England but the children remained with the Blood Reserve due to intervention of the Reserve and Indian Agent, as I understand the case. A NWMP officer, probably a friend of Fred Pace, saw to the children's situation during this time.

My grandmother used to sing a song to me, she made up, about the children. My grandfather CHARLES VICARAGE PACE died 1926 and was buried at LETHBRIDGE. He must have known of Fred's family during his time at Lethbridge during the 1890s visiting his aunt & uncle HENRY & MARY ANN SQUIRE (nee PACE) at Lethbridge. A Mr. WEBBER in the area, seemed to be connected to my PACE family. The name BUCHANAN also may have a connection

THE SQUIRE-PACE folks were buried at NORWOOD, Ontario where BUCHANAN and PACE had a connection as business associates and close friends with my grandfather's brother EDWARD "TEDDY" PACE - GTPace-webmaster


PACE-KITTSON of NWMP Lethbridge St. Paul MN
PACE-TIERNEY of Napean Victoria Vancouver Edmonton
PACE-POCOCK LEWIS of Bristol UK
PACE-DUNCAN-LEWIS of Bristol UK
KITTSON-PACE    TIERNEY-PACE    DUNCAN    POCOCK    JAMES & JOSEPH KIPP

KITTSON & HILL "Empire Builders" - Railways, Fur Trade, Steam boats, coal etc.    RCMP Museum   Glenbow Museum - Calgary Stampede   Stampede Site    Tom Three Persons   Coal Mining at Lethbridge   Mining History visit - North West Mounted Police
HERITAGE CENTRE - REGINA.....A Tradition in Scarlet
- get an idea of the era

JAMES WILLIAM PACE
& SARAH ALICE BANNISTER of Center, Saguache County, Colorado - came to Canada in 1902, settled near NANTON in southern ALBERTA

I came across a KIPP Road near Nanton

OLD FORTS TRAIL

FORT BENTON
on the Missouri River
said to be
"Birthplace of Montana"

ANTIQUE PISTOL purchaced by MICHIGAN gun collector - Bob in Michigan

who writes

Bought an antique pistol and found "Fred Pace" scratched on the inside of one of the grips. Gun is an "S&W Mod 2 Old Army", for the now extinct .32 rimfire cartridge; made in 1865. It's interesting that the pistol ended up in MICHIGAN...we ordered it from a catalog in KANSAS...I sure wonder where it's been all those years in between...We often say "If this old thing could only speak...

Fred's pistol
In Canadian History
The Honorable DARCY McGEE -
was shot dead with the same type pistol in 1868


On April 7, 1868
Returning home, he was shot and killed as he entered the door of his rooming house on Sparks Street in Ottawa.

ALSO at 29 SPARKS Street

is where HENRY PACE had his Watchmaker/jewellery business in 1877 '78 '79

OTTAWA BUSINESS DIRECTORY
National Archives of Canada
Wellington Street, Ottawa

Interesting
OTTAWA Historical facts !

FRED PACE's brother HENRY ran a jewellery/watchmakers store at 29 Sparks Street. Registered in OTTAWA BUSINES DIRECTORY 1877-78-79 - National Museum Archives Wellington Street Ottawa. HENRY PACE connected to St. Paul Minnesota. His daughter VIOLET married ALFRED KITTSON. Son of NORMAN KITTSON mayor of St. Paul and partner with JAMES JEROME HILL the EMPIRE BUILDER of railway and steamboat fame. HILL built railways and steamboat enterprizes into mining areas of southern British Columbia. HENRY PACE died at Lethbridge 1899, buried St. Paul Minnesota
OBITUARY BELOW
- GTPace-webmaster


CONTRIBUTORS
  1. Norman Manyfingers, Calgary
  2. Alan Pace, Water Valley,AB
  3. Brenda Howorko nee Pace, Edmonton
  4. Gord Pace - webmaster - Ontario

other Ken LIDDELL books
on Western Canadian History

  • This is Alberta
  • Alberta Revisited
  • This is British Columbia

Treaty # 7
Past & Present
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
"I'll Take the Train"
A BOOK by Ken Liddell - Chapter six - "The Great Train Robbery" - Calgary newsman, in his book, mentions SAMUEL JONES CPR conductor and 1920 CROWSNEST PASS train robbery.

PACE and JONES
Lethbridge & Medicine Hat in ALBERTA
SAMUEL EDWARD JONES of Medicine Hat, a CPR train Conductor. Sam's wife was a relative of my grandfather.

- If this is true -
my grandfather had two family branches in ALBERTA in the 1890s


To learn more about this JONES CULWICK PACE relationship
and their connections in England
CLICK HERE - read Barbara Heenan's NOTES


CHARLES VICARAGE PACE
- buried 1926 - Lethbridge -
VICARAGE goes back to a JAMES-VICARAGE-CULWICK family in ENGLAND.


Another PACE family was also at Medicine Hat at this time with the Canadian Pacific Railway WALKER ELGIN PACE. We thought our PACE families may be connected

- FURTHER RESEARCH FOUND -


POST 1901 CENSUS PROJECT

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JOHN PACE
son of Fred Pace

JOHNNY PACE
Naatoyiiksisskstaki

FRED PACE "Keegogeechee" 1841-1898
London England - Standoff - Fort Macleod, Alberta

brother of HENRY PACE
watchmaker
Ottawa - Lethbridge - St. Paul, Minnesota

by

NORMAN MANYFINGERS
of Standoff, Alberta
Great grandson of FRED PACE

My maternal great grandfather was FRED PACE in the 1800's.
In 1873, at 32 years of age, FRED PACE came west with the first recruitment expedition of the NORTH WEST MOUNTED POLICE Known as the famous "MARCH ACROSS the PLAINS" to MACLEOD

Read about the RCMP, and former NWMP in Canadian history " " - CLICK HERE
Can you image the sight

  • 302 policemen,
  • 338 riding horses,
  • 114 Red River carts
  • and 73 wagons
  • with 142 oxen to pull and 20 drovers,
  • 2 field guns,
  • and 93 head of cattle

During that winter of 1873
they were quartered at LOWER FORT GARY

WINNIPEG, Manitoba today

from which place the famous

" MARCH ACROSS the PLAINS to MACLEOD "
was commenced in 1874

FRED PACE severed his connection with the force while at Lower Fort Gary but made his way west with his NWMP comrades, arriving with them at MACLEOD in the fall of 1874.


FRED PACE & NWMP companions

Fred was born on August 26th, 1841
in Holloway Middlesex County, England

and died Thursday, December 8th 1898
at STANDOFF, North West Territories -(Alberta since 1905)-

FRED PACE, being a keen businessman, opened up a store there, in the old town, on the island.  He shortly removed to STANDOFF, where he ran a trading post/dry goods store for some 24 years until his passing in December of 1898. 

Standoff is a community on the northern part of the BLOOD RESERVE, (Blackfoot Nation) which is the largest reserve in Canada. Population today is approximately 7,000 people on over 600 square miles of land in southern Alberta, 18 miles south of Fort Macleod.

Fred made Standoff what it is today, the hub of the Blood Reserve. Fred's wife was from the Blood Reserve.  It would seem that Fred was a real life version of "Dancing with Wolves".

It truly is amazing,
that FRED PACE came from England, made his way across Canada to Standoff, and found a wife from the Blood reserve. There is a large family of Paces today on the reserve. Fred and his wife have over 200 decendents on the Blood Reserve today.  His life was more than a success in more ways than one  He also has relatives in the MILK RIVER area who have a large farming operation, just south of LETHBRIDGE.

In Fred's day there was no such thing as welfare, healthcare, etc. People survived by the strength and perseverance of rugged individualism. In his day, if you didn't have a job, you created your own job  What a glorious country we would have today, if everyone had the drive, determination and rugged individualism, of Fred.

His other daughter, FANNIE EAGLECHILD, told me FRED is buried at FORT MACLEOD.

I also, learned from my cousin Delores Daychief, who works for Lands Dept. for the Blood Tribe Administration, that Fred was known by his Blood Indian name "Keegogeechee" (crooked fingers).

Is it possible that Fred received some kind of injury to his hand or hands that forced him to retire early from the N.W.M.P.?

DAVID PACE of London, who recently found this web site has commented on FRED PACE's fingers saying that it's a family affliction and he also has the same finger situation.

Fred had two daughters named ANNIE and FANNIE. My grandmother was ANNIE. Both ANNIE and FANNIE kept the family together. ANNIE married MORRIS MANYFINGERS and FANNIE married a man known as EAGLECHILD.

Fred had two sisters who tried to adopt ANNIE and FANNIE in a custody dispute and take them back to England. Obviously they did not win the custody battle.

Gord Pace-webmaster-says:

I remember, when I was a kid, my grandmother in Montreal telling me about two sisters of FRED PACE coming from England to take Fred's children back to England with them but that didn't happen. Norman didn't mention JOHNNY, Fred's other child, who had son WALLACE and that part of the PACE family, I'm glad to say, also goes on in southern Alberta, I'm told by Johnnie's descendents. My grandfather was Charles Vicarage Pace who was buried at Lethbridge 1926 - GTP

Yours Truly
Norman Bevis Manyfingers
great grandson of FRED PACE,
buried Fort Macleod, Alberta

Group photo
NORMAN MANYFINGERS
ALAN PACE
Mr & Mrs FLOYD MANYFINGERS
amongst hisorical artifacts of FLOYD's uncle
TOM THREE PERSONS
& the CALGARY STAMPEDE of 1912
bison on the range
Bison at REDDOM Bison Farm,
RR4, Brighton, Ont K0K 1H0

Blackfoot Nation
a Proud past - a Bright Future

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Baker
Massacre

23 January 1870
Dick Shovel Site

Holy Medicine Bear Woman,
Naa'tookyiaaki

who was the wife of Fred Pace, survived the Baker massacre and made it to Southern Alberta.

Holy Medicine Bear Woman not only survived but saved two children. She grabbed two children and wrapped up herself with the children and rolled down a hill to escape.

The human spirit
always finds a way
to survive.

words of
Norman Bevis Manyfingers
Standoff, Alberta

NORMAN urges people
read some truth

Check out this web site.
DICK SHOVEL SITE

a few words from the site

"An Army scout, JOE KIPP, shouted that this was the wrong camp; he was threatened into silence"

WITNESSES TO CARNAGE

includes words from Blackfoot writer, JAMES WELCH - possibly of the WELSH-KIPP-PACE study
see right hand column
- as is JOSEPH KIPP -
of MARIAS RIVER event

MARIAS RIVER
Montana
Baker's Massacre of the Piegans


Confusion of Massacres

The PLAINS INDIAN MUSEUM

CLICK - School site
Kainai Middle School


SITTING BULL
The Canadian Encyclopedia


James Morrow Walsh
(1843-1905)

Colonel French
of the NWMP
and Sitting Bull


CHARLES RUSSELL
ART GALLERY - MUSEUM
Great Falls Montana

CHARLES RUSSELL 1864-1926 spent the summer of 1888 visiting often with the Blood Indians in Alberta, Canada. - the famous artist of indian and north/west pioneer life - spent the summer of 1888 visiting often with the BLOOD INDIANS in Alberta, Canada

CHARLES RUSSELL
1890s famous painter of INDIAN-COWBOY artwork.

GREAT FALLS Museum" of his name in MONTANA

preserving the vision of FRONTIER LIFE in the NORTHWEST

For a good display of his striking ACTION paintings
visit the
SADDLE DOME at CALGARY

Gordon Thomas Pace

from
Marias River / Piegan Massacre
23 January 1870

CLICK - to go there

None of the PR options were good and the Army made it worse by ignoring, at the least, but probably covering up the massacre. As so often happens in these cases in the U.S. Army, a young soldier steps up where his superiors have fallen down and tells the truth.

Lieutenant William Pease

(actually a variation of PACE)

acting as a Blackfoot agent, reported the massacre to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Ely Samuel Parker, a Civil War veteran, confidante to U.S. Grant and an Iroquois Indian whose real name was Donehogawa demanded an investigation, but the outcome was prevarication as the Army closed ranks with General Sherman saying he would prefer to believe his soldiers.

In the end,
no official recognition of the massacre was forthcoming

and only time has brought a gradual acceptance of the fact of this massacre.

six years later
- The Battle of
the Little Big Horn
-

after which
SITTING BULL put trust in
" The Great White Mother "
QUEEN VICTORIA

spending time with
the BLOOD RESERVE people of southern Alberta

also read the
DICK SHOVEL site

Schedule of Pow Wows
Alberta Montana Idaho

The Town of Fort Macleod
ALBERTA Online Encyclopedia

CLICK

READ about SITTING BULL

 
JOSEPH KIPP
KIPP-BLAKE Family web site
Edward Kipp - Orleans, Ontario

MARIAS RIVER MASSACRE site

mentions the following

JOSEPH KIPP
half-Mandan Indian (North Dakota)
son of white trader
JAMES KIPP - (no further info)

FURTHER INFO
is available from

Museum of the Fur Trade,
Chadron, Nebraska
They have an extensive BOOK STORE and will LOOK UP a NAME you ask for and check for a book they have. I've been there and joined as a member for their quarterly booklet-GTP

Kipp (Joseph)
married one of HEAVY RUNNER's daughters, MARTHA, and adopted her children, who had been left fatherless by the soldiers.

He had a colorful career in Canada and Montana, being known as

"The Merchant Prince
of the High Missouri"
He testified under oath to the Indian Claims Commission in February, 1913, forty-three years after the massacre.]
above from
The 1870 Marias Massacre in Montana

MERLIN CARLSON
and Blackfoot Digital Library

In a recording, on-line - (Blackfoot Digital Library) - MERLIN tells what he knew of the BAKER Massacre. He is a great grandson of DICK KIPP survivor of the Massacre.

Could DICK KIPP have been one of the adopted children of JOSEPH KIPP who married MARTHA, daughter of HEAVY RUNNER ? sounds very likely

Kipp (Joseph)

  • married one of
    HEAVY RUNNER's daughters, MARTHA
  • and adopted her children
MERLIN was told that a large rock was placed at the site to mark it.


the KIPP surname shows up In PACE Family research work
4 DAVID PACE - b abt 1817
+ CATHERINE EVERITT

  • * 5 HANNAH PACE
    + DARWIN KIPP
    - m YARMOUTH Township
    ELGIN County, Ontario
Pace lineage at:
PACE lineage YARMOUTH Township
ELGIN County, Ontario


I wrote to another PACE Family researcher asking about KIPP-PACE. Here is the reply

The DARWIN KIPP you listed was the great-grandson of JAMES KIPP (1751-1785). JAMES KIPP (the famous fur-trader, who was close with many indian tribes in Montana) was named after JAMES (1751-1785)...his uncle. The JOSEPH KIPP that you mention was JAMES' (the furtrader) son.

I'm not sure on the WELSH possibility, but there could be a connection.
- SA
also shown on the MARIAS SITE
a person with name
a variation of Pace:

Lt. W. B. PEASE
Blackfoot Indian Agent

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