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Édouard Beaupré, (January 9, 1881 – July 3, 1904) better known by his nickname "The Willow Bunch Giant" was a Canadian circus and freak show giant, professional wrestler, strongman, and star of Barnum and Bailey's circus. He was one of the tallest men in recorded history, with a reported height of 2.52 m (8 ft 3 in). [1] [2]
A boy named Édouard Beaupré, better known as the Willow Bunch Giant, was the first child born and baptized in the area in 1881. [26] The forerunner settlement of Willow Bunch was established in 1883, around two miles east of Légaré's store and one-and-a-half miles east of the present town.
Jean-Louis Légaré was a French-Canadian trader and one of the founding members of Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan. [1]He was born in Saint-Jacques, Canada East on October 25, 1841 and left in 1866 to find work first in the eastern United States, then in Minnesota.
Florestine Piché and Gaspard Beaupré had 20 children; the eldest of them was famous giant Édouard Beaupré, born in 1881 in Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan. [87] 20 Emma Catherine Padgett and Addison Bidwell Millard 1890
The RM of Willow Bunch No. 42 is governed by an elected municipal council and an appointed administrator that meets on the second Monday of every month. [3] The reeve of the RM is Denis Bellefleur while its administrator is Sharleine Eger. [3] The RM's office is located in Willow Bunch. [3]
Salt flats of Willow Bunch Lake. Willow Bunch Lake is shallow salt lake with a surface area of about 3,287.9 hectares (8,125 acres). [3] It sits in the Big Muddy Valley, which was formed over 12,000 years ago near the end of the last ice age when a glacial lake outburst flood occurred from a pre-historic glacial lake located at present-day Old Wives Lake. [4]
Willow Bunch may refer to: Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, a town in Saskatchewan, Canada; Willow Bunch (electoral district), a former federal electoral district in Saskatchewan; Willow Bunch (provincial electoral district), a former provincial electoral division for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan; Willow Bunch Lake, a salt lake in ...
1.10 Willow Bunch School. 1.11 Sitting Bull. 1.12 Edouard Beaupré: The Willow Bunch Giant. 1.12.1 Scientific study. 1.13 Population characteristics. 1.14 French ...