Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway) National Historic Person

Hastings, Ontario
Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway) © Library of Congress, Marian S. Carson Collection, LC-USZ62-121977/Bibliothèque du Congrès, Marian S. Carson Collection, LC-USZ62-121977
Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway)
© Library of Congress, Marian S. Carson Collection, LC-USZ62-121977/Bibliothèque du Congrès, Marian S. Carson Collection, LC-USZ62-121977
Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway) © Library of Congress, Marian S. Carson Collection, LC-USZ62-121977/Bibliothèque du Congrès, Marian S. Carson Collection, LC-USZ62-121977Pastel drawing of Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway), 1850 © Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1975-2-1 Source: donation from D.H. Hamly, 532 Allen St. Hawkesbury, Ontario / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1975-2-1 Source: Don de D.H. Hamly, 532 rue Allen, Hawkesbury, Ontario
Address : Hastings, Ontario

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 2018-07-31
Life Date: 1818 to 1869

Other Name(s):
  • Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway)  (Designation Name)
  • Kakikekapo  (Other Name)
  • George Copway  (Other Name)
  • Kahgegagahbowh  (Other Name)
Research Report Number: 2017-19

Importance: Mississauga Anishinaabe author, lecturer, publisher, and activist, he gained international literary celebrity as an author of popular non-fiction books in the late 1840s and early 1850s.