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Cache Percotte/Picote

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An edit at 02:29, 25 April 2025 by an IP address signed "baden k." changed Cache Picote to Cache Percotte, leaving only the comment, "corrected BS".

"A site along Hardisty Creek is where a First Nations group from the Jasper area had left members stricken with smallpox while the rest of the group travelled to Lac Ste. Anne to find medical aid for the smallpox epidemic which was ravaging the indigenous population. The area was thus dubbed Cache Percotte in 1870."

The text was unsourced, so it's fair enough to challenge it, and the area is now called Cache Percotte. However, the text around it no longer makes any sense. Percotte doesn't mean anything that I can find. Picotte was the common name for smallpox among French Canadians at that time period. See, e.g. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/plague-the-red-death-strikes-montreal-feature and https://lasentinelle.ca/montreal-au-temps-de-la-variole/. When I read the original text, I assumed that it was true and the name was later corrupted to Percotte. However, I have been digging around and I can't find a reliable reference to the area actually being called Picote or Picotte. By the 1920s, there are references to it being called Percotte.

I believe all the original text in the history section was written by local amateur historians and is probably generally correct, but might include original research and is unverified and so shouldn't stand indefinitely. I do intend some day to visit the archives and see if there are reliable sources to these episodes, but who knows when that will be. So I think there are two choices - either delete the whole thing since it has no verification, or revert this edit and wait for verificaiton. The status quo is neither verified nor logically coherent. Benfwilliamson (talk) 05:23, 27 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

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