Ogden Family

Ogden Point, Victoria BC. Photo by Rachel Perkins

Peter Skene Ogden was born in Quebec, 1790 to American Loyalists Isaac and Sarah Ogden.  Isaac Ogden was a Judge.  Peter joined the Northwest Company.  In his travels he married an unknown Cree woman, “à la façon du pays” according to the custom of the country in Ile a la Crosse, Saskatchewan in 1818.  She had two sons and died.    Peter Skene Ogden was transferred to the Columbia Department.  In 1845 he became one of a triumvirate of Chief Factors of the HBC managing the Forts with James Douglas and John McLoughlin.  He served on the board of governance of Fort Victoria.

Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

His first born Peter Ogden Jr., was also a Chief Factor of the HBC.  He married Phristine Brabant, a Métis and Cree woman.  They had eleven children including seven beautiful daughters.  One daughter, Sarah Ogden, married James Marsden Lindsay Alexander, a Scot and Chief Factor of the HBC.  They had nine children before Sarah died in 1886 at the age of 40.   One of their sons, William Lindsay Alexander, born 1881 in Stuart Lake, BC, was Mark’s grandfather.  He married Agnes Dunlop, born 1886 in Liverpool, England.  The wedding took place at Queen’s University Chapel in Kingston, Ontario on November 6^th, 1911.  They had six children.  Their youngest, born 1923 in Prince Rupert, BC, married Gordon Thomas Steven Perkins of Victoria, BC.   They had three children, including my husband, Gordon Mark Perkins .

Submitted by Fern Perkins