This jacket is fabricated from greenish-brown wool, each shoulder with epaulette straps held in place via small brass buttons with the Canada Militia insignia, each of the buttons maker marked "W. SCULLY MONTREAL" on the reverse, each of the straps adorned with a crown and two pips, indicative of the rank of Colonel, along with a brass CANADA shoulder title. Each of the crowns in bronze gilt with a maroon felt insert, each of the pips in bronze gilt with red and green enamels, all of which are held in place via intact lugs and pins. There are scarlet red gorget patches on both collars, each with a central cherry red embroidered strip, indicative of the rank of a Brigadier or Colonel, for Officers Commanding or General Staff Officers. The front has four large pockets, one on each breast, which have decorative straps giving them a pleated-look, while the lower pockets on either side at the waist are larger and deeper, each of the four pockets having a fold over flap with a reinforced buttonhole and a brass button with the Canada Militia insignia, each of the buttons maker marked "FIRMIN & SONS Ltd LONDON" on the reverse. There is a ghosted area above the left breast pocket where a ribbon bar once resided. As he had been a recipient of the North West Canada Medal, the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration and the Volunteer Officers Decoration, the ribbon bar likely reflected these awards, as the jacket is dated 1917.
After the war, he would be awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal. Sewn in place at the waist is a wide band that encompasses the entire jacket, the band incorporating a small top entry pocket just above the right lower pocket. There are brass belt loops sewn in place above each of the lower pockets, to support a matching belt, which has been lost to time. The front is completed by a vertical row of four large brass Canada Militia buttons on the right side, facing an equal number of reinforced button holes on the left. The two middle buttons are maker marked "JENNENS & Co. Ltd. LONDON" are their reverses, the bottom button is maker marked "J.R. GAUNT & Son Ltd LONDON ENGld" on the reverse, while the top button is unmarked. The rear of the tunic is single-vented. The inside is lined in brownish-green cotton, with white cotton in the sleeves, each of the armpits with reinforcing patches. The left side incorporates a side entry pocket just inside the opening, with a tailor's label inscribed "G.M. HOLBROOK, / Court Civil and Military Tailor / OTTAWA, CANADA" and named in handwritten black ink to "Col. S.M. Rogers" and dated "June 7/17" (1917) sewn in place inside the pocket. The collar has an 83 mm long brownish-green strap for hanging the tunic on a hook, along with an embroidered tailor's label inscribed "HOLBROOK OTTAWA.". The tunic measures 400 mm across the shoulders and 700 mm in length overall, is free of mothing, with very light soiling and a few interruptions in the fabrics evident. Near extremely fine.
Footnote: Samuel Maynard Rogers was born on April 14, 1862 in Plymouth, Devonshire, England, the son of Samuel Rogers and Elizabeth (Maynard) Rogers. He came to Canada in the 1860s with his parents, the family settling in Ottawa, Ontario. He was educated at Ottawa public schools and Ottawa Collegiate Institute. Rogers joined the 43rd Regiment (The Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles) of the Canadian Militia in the early 1880s as a Private. He was a resident of Ottawa when he was recruited by Captain Todd of the Governor-General's Foot Guards. Todd was authorized to raise a company of sharpshooters in Ottawa, to be known as the "Ottawa Sharpshooters", to be composed of recognized expert riflemen for service during the North-West Rebellion of 1885 in Western Canada. Although the entire 43rd Battalion volunteered for service, it was decided that the Ottawa militia would mobilize a composite company of sharpshooters. When formed, this company included forty-seven members of the Governor General's Foot Guards and six other militiamen from Ottawa, including two members of the 43rd Regiment, namely Staff-Sergeant Samuel Maynard Rogers and Private William Osgoode. After making the difficult journey to the North-West Territories in early May 1885, the Ottawa Sharpshooters were sent to Battleford (now part of Saskatchewan) as part of the military garrison there. On May 1st, part of the garrison, including some of the Ottawa sharpshooters, marched out of the camp and headed for Cut Knife Hill, forty kilometres to the west in search of aboriginal forces. The Battle of Cut Knife Hill was fought the next day, May 2, 1885, and occurred when a flying column of mounted police, militia, and Canadian army regular army units attacked a Cree and Assiniboine teepee settlement near Battleford, Saskatchewan. First Nations fighters forced the Canadian forces to retreat, with losses on both sides. Before Rogers' arrival were a series of events that lead to the battle itself. In the spring of 1885, the Métis living in the District of Saskatchewan formed a provisional government under Louis Riel, taking control of the area around Batoche. Riel was in contact with First Nations people in Saskatchewan and Alberta, such as the Cree and Assiniboine. The government was concerned that the resistance would spread to First Nations across the North-West Territories.
The Government of Canada quickly made preparations to send troops to crush the Resistance. Bands of Cree, assembled under the leadership of Poundmaker, and went to Battleford. The purpose of the visit was to lobby the Indian agent there, Mr. Rae, for better supplies (many members of the band were starving) and to discuss the political situation. The people of Battleford and some of the settlers in the surrounding area, hearing reports of large numbers of Cree and Assiniboine leaving reserves and making their way to Battleford, feared for their safety. On the night of March 30, 1885, townspeople began to abandon the town and seek shelter at North-West Mounted Police Fort Battleford. When Poundmaker and his party reached the town, Rae refused to come out of the fort to meet with them. He kept them waiting for two days. Poundmaker's people meanwhile suffered from hunger, having been refused supplies by Rae. The abandoned homes and businesses were looted about this time. The identity of the looters is disputed. Some reports claimed Poundmaker's people were responsible, but one observer alleged that most of the looting had already been done by whites.
Oral history accounts claim that the looting was done by Nakoda people, and that Poundmaker did his best to stop it. Either way, Poundmaker's people left the next day. Meanwhile, bands of Assiniboine living south of Battleford had heard about the Métis' rebellion. A small group of them killed a local farmer who had treated them harshly, and shot their Indian agent for beating a teenage girl. They then went north to Battleford to meet up with Poundmaker. a number of homes and businesses in Battleford were then looted and burned. There is some controversy as to who was responsible and as to the extent of the destruction. The Canadian government sent Major General Frederick Middleton to Saskatchewan, to crush the Métis' rebellion. The small police force at Fort Battleford, suddenly responsible for the safety of nearly 500 civilians, called on him for reinforcements and hastily set about forming a home guard to garrison the post. Middleton detached a column under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel William Otter to relieve Battleford. Otter's column consisted of some 763 men from the 2nd Battalion, "Queen's Own Rifles of Canada", 'B' Battery, Regiment of Canadian Artillery, 'C' Company of the Infantry School Corps, a party of Sharpshooters from the 1st Battalion, Governor General's Foot Guards, a small party of North-West Mounted Police under the command of Percy Neale, and assorted teamsters. The column travelled by rail to Swift Current, setting out on the march for Battleford on April 13th and arriving on April 24th. When Otter arrived, he found hundreds of civilians, white and Métis, crammed into the fort. However, Poundmaker's followers were nowhere to be found. Overjoyed at Otter's arrival, the townspeople and settlers wanted revenge on the Indians for the losses in lives and material that they had suffered. Many of Otter's troops, inexperienced militiamen, were angry that they had "missed out on a fight". Pressured by the townspeople and his own troops, Otter decided to take action. Despite orders from General Middleton to stay in Battleford, he wired the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories (who was also the Indian Commissioner), Edgar Dewdney, for permission to "punish Poundmaker." Permission was granted.
A garrison was left in Battleford, while he led a flying column of 392 men to attack the Cree and Assiniboine at Cut Knife Hill. His force was made up of 75 North-West Mounted Police (cavalry), several small units of Canadian army regulars, and various volunteers and militia. He carried with him two 7-pounder field rifles and a Gatling gun. He set out on the afternoon of May 1st. His plan was to march until dusk, rest until the moon rose, then continue on to attack the Cree and Assiniboine early in the morning, while they were asleep. Meanwhile, the Cree were encamped on their reserve west of Battleford, on Cut Knife Creek. They were joined by various other bands, including Assiniboine. They knew that there were thousands of Canadian soldiers in the area to fight the Métis' rebellion and decided to protect themselves. As was Cree custom, the war chief Fine Day replaced Poundmaker (the 'political chief') as leader until the fighting was over. The entire encampment was moved across Cut Knife Creek to the west side. Behind the camp was Cut Knife Hill, and on both sides of it were ravines filled with bushes and trees. Altogether, nine bands of Cree and three of Assiniboine were present, numbering some 1500 men, women, and children. Just after dawn on May 2nd, Otter's column arrived. Otter had expected that the camp would be in the prairie on the east side of Cut Knife Creek. He had not anticipated that he would have to ford the creek. After his column had crossed the creek, they had to wade through a marsh before they reached the encampment. An old Cree man named Jacob with Long Hair had woken up when he heard the sound of the soldiers crossing the creek, and he alerted the camp. Colonel Otter set up two cannons and a Gatling gun and started firing on the camp. In the first few minutes, there was total confusion. The gunfire broke lodges and destroyed the camp. Women and children went running for the safety of the ravines. A group of Assiniboine warriors charged Otter's men to stop them from killing the women and children. The other warriors moved into the ravines, and Fine Day went to the top of Cut Knife Hill to direct the Cree counterattack.
The warriors fought in small groups. One group would run forward, attack the soldiers, then rush back to the ravine before the soldiers could get them. As soon as the soldiers tried to attack the warriors on one side, another group of warriors would rush out of the second ravine and attack them from behind. The other warriors guarded the women and children. Otter could not attack, because he had no idea where the enemy were nor of their numbers. Robert Jefferson, an eyewitness reports that "not more than 50 [Natives] altogether, had taken part in the battle. This was understandable since few were armed." Douglas Light's research indicates some 243 Cree and Assiniboine men were present, and notes that a number of young boys also took part in the fight. Otter formed his men into a wedge. Two lines of soldiers and police faced the two ravines. The volunteers and militia guarded the rear, facing the marsh. As the battle continued, Fine Day employed a flanking maneuver, whereby his warriors began to move along the two ravines, getting closer and closer to the soldiers. The warriors stayed behind trees and bushes while they fired, so that Otter's men could not see anyone to shoot at. Colonel Otter's soldiers were trapped: on the left and right were the ravines and behind them, the marsh. After six hours of fighting, Otter decided to withdraw. As the soldiers were crossing the marsh, some warriors started mounting their horses to attack. Poundmaker asked them to let Otter's men leave. They respected Poundmaker and allowed Otter to return to Battleford. Some historians believe that only this prevented an outright massacre of Otter's troops.
The Battle of Cut Knife was the natives' most successful battle during the North-West Rebellion. They had the advantage of being on their own territory, but also several disadvantages: they were outnumbered, attacked by surprise, and short on ammunition. Fourteen of Otter's soldiers were wounded, and eight killed, including one abandoned to be mutilated by native women. Among the deaths among the government forces were: John Rogers and Private William B. Osgoode, members of the Guards Company of Ottawa Sharpshooters (the latter recruited with Rogers from the 43rd Regiment), and Corporal W.H.T. Lowry of the North-West Mounted Police. Three natives were wounded and five killed, including a Nez Perce who had come north from the United States some years earlier. (It is said that this Nez Perce fighter saved the lives of many women and children when he crept out and spiked the cannon, preventing its use on the teepees, at the sacrifice of his own life). The battle instilled in some of Otter's men a respect for their enemy. Otter had expected Poundmaker's people to be caught off-guard and demoralized and to surrender quickly. But that had not happened. However, despite suffering their greatest reverse during the campaign, sheer weight of numbers and better supplies favoured the North-West Field Force. In just a few weeks, the starving Cree went to Battleford to make peace with Major-General Middleton. Fine Day, the Cree war chief who had directed the battle, escaped to the United States. Poundmaker was arrested and jailed. Lieutenant-Colonel William Otter survived the battle and remained a prominent figure in the military, commanding The Royal Canadian Regiment in the Boer War, and acting as Director of Internment Camps in the First World War. Many people have compared this battle to the Battle of the Little Bighorn. There are some major similarities: in both cases, an army officer disobeyed orders; both tried to catch a native camp by surprise; both Custer and Otter badly misjudged the terrain and had to slow down their attacks; and both ended up being surrounded by warriors and had no idea where to charge. Otter, at least, knew when to retreat (and was allowed to do so), while Custer kept fighting and suffered hundreds of casualties. Of course, the battles were very different in their outcome. Whereas Custer himself was killed along with a third of his soldiers, Otter and most of his soldiers survived their battle and emerged with a new respect for native warriors. Staff-Sergeant Rogers survived the ordeal.
The rest of the tour of duty for the sharpshooters was relatively quiet and the Ottawa men returned home in late July. Staff Sergeant Rogers corps was released from service on July 30, 1885. For his North-West Canada service, Rogers was awarded the North West Canada Medal without clasp. He is on the "List of Members of the Militia Force lately on Active Service in the North-West, in 1885, claiming to be entitled to "Grants of Land" under the provisions of 48-49 Victoria, Chapter 73." In any number of ways, the 1885 Northwest (or Riel) Rebellion occupies something of an uneasy (when it’s not forgotten) space in Canadian history. Nevertheless, the Rebellion was one of the earliest opportunities that the young Dominion had to demonstrate some of its firepower and a number of cities erected memorials and statues dedicated to the event. Rogers would rise from the rank of Private to ultimately command the 43rd Regiment (The Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles) and was always in attendance at meetings of the 43rd Regimental Association. Samuel Maynard Rogers married Annette Woodburn (born May 28, 1866) in Ottawa on November 30, 1886 and is acknowledged in the Canada Gazette of 1889, page 1576, as being a Captain with the 43rd Battalion and having attended the Royal Schools of Infantry (Class 1, Course SP, Grade A, Written 71 1/2, Practical 72, Aggregate Percentage 73). Rogers was an expert shot, as evidenced by his previous selection as an Ottawa Sharpshooter during the North-West Rebelion, which led to his being picked for participation with the Bisley teams of 1889-1891.
In 1895, he lead a Militia, to put down a Tax revolt in Lower Quebec. Rogers was a Major with the 43rd Regiment, when he enlisted for South African service at Ottawa on October 18, 1899. It was noted that he was 5 ft. 9 3/4 in. in height, that he weighed 136 lbs., that he had first class muscular development, had "good intelligence" and that his previous occupation was that of Undertaker. The medical examination revealed that he had a knife wound scar on the outer side of his right hip. While in England, before travelling to South Africa, he created a drawing of the Royal Canadians' reception at Windsor by Queen Victoria on November 30, 1900. Upon arrival in South Africa, he was placed in command of 'D' Company, 2nd Special Service Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment. From 1899 to 1900, Rogers participated in operations in the Orange Free State, including Paardeberg, Poplar Grove Driefontein, Hout Nek and Zand River, along with operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria in June and July of 1900 and in Cape Colony from July to October 1900. For his South African service, he was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with four clasps. Rogers was a Major with the 43rd Regiment when he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal and a Lieutenant-Colonel with the 43rd Regiment when he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration in 1904 and the Volunteer Officers Decoration in 1906. He returned to Ottawa, where he assumed the position of Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 43rd Regiment in Ottawa from 1904 to 1910. During this time, the Laurentian Club in Ottawa was born, with Rogers as one of its sixteen Charter Application Signatories.
In 1904, Ottawa was sharply divided in its social structure. Entrance to a gentlemen's or sporting club was determined by social status and the nature of one's employment. Merchants and some professions were not considered gentlemanly enough to be granted entrance to more favoured groups, unless they qualified by family or marriage. Frustrated by the exclusion of some of their business partners from these socially exclusive clubs, Edward Bremner, Gordon Edwards, and Colonel (later Sir) Percy Sherwood formed a new men's club in which business relationships, rather than social standing, was the basis for membership. The Laurentian Club Limited was incorporated on July 26, 1904 by the Letters Patented of the Province of Ontario. The sixteen founding members who signed the charter application, several of whom were involved in the lumber trade or with the railways, represented a cross section of the business and professional men of the day.
The Founding Members of the Laurentian Club included: Edward Bremner (assistant General Freight Agent for the Canadian Atlantic Railway and later Managing Director of W.C. Edwards & Company Limited; Gordon Edwards; and Colonel (later Sir) Percy Sherwood. There were sixteen Charter Application Signatories, which included: Samuel Maynard Rogers, Esquire; Llewellyn Newell Bate, of Bate & Company, groceries, wines, etc.; Thomas Arthur Beament, Barrister; Edward Robert Bremner, Assistant general freight for the Canada Atlantic Railway; George John Bryson, lumberman; William Alexander Cameron, Cameron & Company, wholesale lumber merchants; Robert George Cameron, Cameron & Company; John Proctor Dickson, Accountant; Gordon Cameron Edwards, W.C. Edwards & Company lumber manufacturers; Richard Alexis Helmer, Druggist in Hull; Albert Edwards Matthews, Assistant Manager, the George Matthews Company Limited, pork packers, ham and bacon curers; Harry Morrison, Accountant; George Patterson Murphy, Secretary-treasurer, Ottawa Transportation Company; James Gordon MacLaren, Manufacturer; John Lorne McDougall, Jr. Barrister; and Robert Gordon Stewart, R. Stewart & Son, General Insurance. Rogers was Chief Staff Officer of Rockcliffe Military Camp from 1905 to 1907. By 1912, he was living in Edmonton, Alberta with his wife Annette (or Annie) and Annette’s niece, Beatrice (Bea) and was appointed as the first Superintendent of the Jasper Forest Park (now Jasper National Park) in 1913, Lake Annette in the park is named in her honour. In Ottawa, he had been an upstanding, socially connected, and well respected citizen of the nation’s capital.
Samuel Maynard Rogers, in addition to being a military man, was also an outdoorsman and sportsman. As the administrator of Jasper, he promoted efficiency, wildlife protection and tourism. "The Canadian parks, I believe, possess vast potentialities for the betterment of the Canadian people in body, mind, and resultant energy and activity, and each year, as their attractions become better known, they will undoubtedly draw increasingly larger numbers to share in the benefits of the out-of-door life." (Rogers in Humanitarian Ideals, April 1914). An early visitor to the park, famous author Arthur Conan Doyle noted, "But this new Jasper Park is the latest and the wildest of all these reserves. Some years ago it was absolute wilderness, and much of it impenetrable. Now, through the energy of Colonel Rogers, trails have been cut through it in various directions, and a great number of adventurous trips into country which is practically unknown can be carried out with ease and comfort.” (Doyle, Memories and Adventures, 1924). The distinguished Rogers and his family moved into the recently completed superintendent’s residence. The superintendent’s official residence was a modest castle in the center of town. It was built at the government’s expense and was a model for the envisioned aesthetic for the park. It also housed the administration offices for Jasper Forest Park and was known locally as "the boulders". According to legend, the nickname came about during early construction when the site contained nothing more than a pile of boulders.
The Colonel and his family lived on the main floor and administrative offices were on the second floor. It was from here that Rogers, like a feudal lord of sorts, watched over the tenants of the park, defending the virtue of Jasper’s virgin forests and unconquered peaks. However, upon the outbreak of the First World War, and being a military man, his services were required elsewhere. In September 1914, Rogerswas appointed Commander of the 9th Infantry Battalion when the First Contingent organized at Valcartier Camp, where he was also Camp Commandant. He signed his Attestation Paper as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the 9th Infantry Battalion, on September 23, 1914 at Valcartier Camp, at the age of 52 (although the age recorded on the form is 44), naming his next-of-kin as his wife, Annie E. Rogers, c/o Parks Branch, Department of the Interior in Ottawa, stating that he had previous military service as a Staff Sergeant during the North-West Rebellion in 1885, as a Captain commanding 'D' Company of the Royal Canadian Regiment at Cape Colony in South Africa during the Boer War from 1899 to 1901, that he belonged to an Active Militia, that he was Married, that his religion was Church of England (Anglican) and that his trade was that of Civil Servant. At the same time, Frank A. Osborne was Commanding Officer of the 101st Edmonton Fusiliers. After the declaration of war against Germany in August 1914, Osborne offered his services to the Militia Department and raised the 9th Infantry Battalion from Alberta. According to Liberal MP Frank Oliver, once the unit arrived at Valcartier Camp, Rogers usurped power from Osborne. Since Rogers had some military experience from South Africa, Osborne accepted the situation and agreed to become second-in-command. Osborne meanwhile was sent back to Edmonton and forced to retire from active service. Edmonton MP Frank Oliver complained that Osborne had been treated unfairly while Rogers was rewarded for incompetence: "…not only is he [Rogers] not rendering the country or the Empire any service, but he rendered a serious dis-service by reason of his having been put in a position which he was not competent to fill".
Militia Minister, Sir Sam Hughes defended Rogers' reputation, writing to Oliver, "Permit me to say you are entirely in error, and that Colonel Osborne was relieved on account of his incapacity, and by my direction". Oliver refused to retract his statements and lamented the disappointment felt by the 9th Battalion volunteers over the disorganization of their unit: "I do not say that any injustice was done to Colonel Osborne by his being retired, but I do say that when the Department of Militia or the Government, saw fit to replace Colonel Osborne by Colonel Rogers, and that then under the command of Colonel Rogers that battalion was not considered fit to take the field, I am compelled to reach the conclusion that Colonel Rogers was not competent." He went on to state,"I do not know how many other cases there may be like that, but it appears to me that when there is such a startling case it should be made public." Sir Sam Hughes and Rogers strongly objected to Oliver’s comments and demanded a retraction. In the Edmonton MP’s irreverent style, Oliver instead reiterated that Rogers was incompetent and invited the Militia Minister to share the blame for breaking up the 9th Infantry Battalion: "Colonel Rogers in his letter also seems to suggest that I am attacking him. I repeat that I have no desire to attack Colonel Rogers. But I do desire to place before the House the fact that every man in the 9th Battalion, and his right to take his part in the cause for which he volunteered, is just as important to me as Colonel Rogers and General Hughes." Rogers remained the 9th Infantry Battalion's Commanding Officer. The Battalion was raised in Edmonton, Alberta and Ottawa, Ontario and mobilized at Camp Valcartier, Quebec under the authority of P.C.O. 2067, August 6, 1914.
The Battalion sailed October 3, 1914 from Quebec City, Quebec aboard the S.S. Zealand, with a strength of 44 officers and 1,101 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Maynard Rogers. Once in England, the Battalion was re-designated the 9th Reserve Battalion, to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps and formed part of the Canadian Training Depot, located at Tidworth Camp on the Salisbury Plain. Lieutenant-Colonel Rogers
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Maynard Rogers was discharged "by reason of being surplus to requirements", on November 15, 1918, credited with having served in Canada and England with the 9th Infantry Battalion, Camp Commandant at Valcartier Camp, Officer Commanding Canadians at Salisbury Plain, Commandant of the Troops Depot at Tidworth, Officer Commanding the 5th, 7th and 10th Training Brigades, General Staff Officer to Major General Carson, and General Staff Officer to Inspector General Lessard. For his First World War service, he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. After the war, Rogers resumed his responsibilities at Jasper Forest Park as its Superintendent, where he would entertain many of Canada's Governor Generals and other luminaries. Two numerous stories came out of his time at Jasper. The first is known as "The Limburger Affair", as told by Marie Louis Camp to George Camp: "…I came to Jasper in February (1922) and worked for the superintendent of the Park, Colonel Maynard Rogers…I remember an amusing incident while I was working for the Colonel…this particular day I had to prepare an apple pie. The Colonel said, “We will have some cheese with it.” I told him that I had spent some time trying to pick the mould out of it, but it was too far-gone, when the janitor Dan Patch, had come into the kitchen and said, 'What the hell stinks in here?' I showed him the cheese and [we both agreed] it was rotten and [he] took it outside and fed it to the chickens. Well, the Colonel was so mad! We had thrown his good Limburger cheese to the chickens, but it was the first I had ever seen [of that kind of cheese]".
The second is known as "Mysterious Mushrooms", as told by Frank Reed to Mrs. Constance Peterson, one of the founding members of the Jasper Yellowhead Historical Society: "Colonel Rogers apparently had the habit of getting up about 3 or 4 a.m. and going around [to all] the boulevards to pick mushrooms. We were working the night shift and discovered what the Colonel was doing. So we decided we’d get some mushrooms too and we'd slip out about 3 a.m. and scout around and pick [all] the mushrooms, so by the time the Colonel came around there was none left. He kind of got wise to that and it seems he put some kind of an order [out] that people were not allowed to pick mushrooms. But we still beat the Colonel to his mushrooms". During his time at Jasper, his wife, Annette, died on December 1, 1927. He became Commandant of the Canadian Rifle team in 1928 and married for a second time in 1930, to Mary Ann Baldwin. Jasper became a National Park in 1930, with Rogers continuing to be its Superintendent until his retirement in 1936. For a time, he was in the insurance business in Edmonton, Alberta, before returning to Ottawa with his new wife, Mary. He later represented the Travellers Life Assurance Company in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, selling insurance. Afterwards, he became an Undertaker with his nephew, George H. Rogers, at his nephew's Elgin street Funeral Parlor and continued to sell insurance while employed as an Undertaker. Being an outdoorsman at heart, hunting and fishing were his main recreations. He often gave many of his trophies away to his friends or institutions. Samuel Maynard Rogers died in Ottawa, Ontario on Tuesday, July 30, 1940, at the age of 78. His funeral took place from his nephew's funeral home, on Thursday, August 1st, followed by his internment in Beechwood National Cemetery in Ottawa, Section 48, Lot 14 NE. At the time of his death, his nephew, Lieutenant-Colonel G.H. Rogers was Officer Commanding the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (M.G.).