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Alfred James Cook
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Veteran, Indigenous leader.
Born at St. Peters on 9 July 1898, son of Matthew Cook and Mary Kennedy, he spent most of his life at Bloodvein First Nation. During the First World War, he enlisted in January 1917 in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served overseas until 1918. He was a Chief of Bloodvein First Nation for 10 years and President of the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood for five years. In the 1959 provincial general election, he was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation candidate for the Rupertsland constituency.
On 16 June 1923, he married Isabella ? (1907-2006) at Berens Rivers and they had three sons and seven daughters. At the time of his death, he had 58 grandchildren, 103 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchildren. He died at the Health Sciences Centre on 10 April 1992 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.
Birth registration [Alfred James Cook], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
“CCF nominate Indian chief,” Winnipeg Tribune, 26 May 1959, page 23.
“Elections in Rupertsland have a habitat of being interesting,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 June 1959, page 14.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 April 1992, page 20.
Obituary [Isabella Cook], Federation Quebecoise des Societes de Genealogie.
Alfred James Cook Sr., FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Oliver Bernuetz (Legislative Library of Manitoba) and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 30 November 2024
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