Orders, Decorations and Medals

North West Canada 1885, 1 clasp, Saskatchewan (Gr. Geo. Hastie, A Batt’y. R.C.A.) impressed in upper and lower case, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £700-800

George Hastie lived at 153 St. Hypolite Street, Montreal. He served with “A” Battery Royal Canadian Artillery during Reil’s Rebellion of 1885. As such he was entitled to receive for his active service either $80 or 320 acres of land in Manitoba or the North West Territories. Hastie opted for the former, receiving a scrip for that amount in June 1886. With copied correspondence and certificates.