Pegahmagabow, Francis National Historic Person
Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario
Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow
(© George Metcalf Archival Collection / Canadian War Museum // Collection d'archives George-Metcalf / Musée Canadien de la Guerre)
Address :
Wasauksing First Nation, Ontario
Recognition Statute:
Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date:
2019-06-05
Life Date:
1889 to 1952
Other Name(s):
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Francis Pegahmagabow
(Designation Name)
Research Report Number:
2018-10; 2010-45; 2005-06
Importance:
Ojibwe Nishnaabe of Wasauksing First Nation, highly decorated soldier in the First World War. He advocated for Indigenous rights from the 1920s to 1950s.