Late Metis Leader Honoured Through Monument

Late Metis Leader Honoured Through Monument

Monday, July 12, 2010 at 13:59

 

 

The unveiling of a monument to the late Jim Brady is winning applause from a national Metis leader.

 

Metis National Council President Clem Chartier was one of the dignitaries to take in the event yesterday at the Kikinahk Friendship Centre in La Ronge.

 

A monument with a description of Brady’s life and work was erected there in front of a crowd of family and friends.

 

Chartier says Brady was instrumental in launching the Metis movement of the 1900s.

 

He started out in Alberta — helping Metis there win a landbase, the only one in existence.

 

He then worked to organize a Metis movement in northern Saskatchewan.

 

Chartier says since the 1960s, Brady’s legacy has been mostly retold through books.

 

He hopes the installation of this new monument helps keep it alive, especially in the Metis community.

 

Brady went missing while on a prospecting trip with Abbie Halkett in June of 1967.

 

Some of the Halkett family was on hand for yesterday’s unveiling.