Henry Cochrane

Henry Cochrane was a Cree schoolmaster, interpreter, and along with Henry Budd and James Settee was one of the first "Indian Clergy" in Western Canada. He lived most of his life in present day Northern Manitoba and taught at various missions schools in the province.

Cochrane was also an interpreter for Treaty Five, and the esteem in which he was held "made his word critical in securing the adhesions." He believed in the importance of a church education for the future of Native peoples, but also felt the hampered by the lack of books and paper provided by the churches, and the Department of Indian Affairs. Cochrane died in 1898.

Sources: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII, pp. 200.