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Battle of Seven Oaks
Battle of Seven Oaks: 1816
The battle was a confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company during the Pemmican War which was precipitated by a proclamation that no pemmican could be exported from the Red River Colony. The North West contingent was led by Cuthbert Grant and included a large number of Métis.
Canada-Red River Settlement
Transcript of House of Commons (United Kingdom) debate about the conflicts between the Lord Selkirk's colony and the North West company.
The Canadian North-West: Its History and Its Troubles from the Early Day of the Fur-Trade to the Era of the Railway and the Settler: With Incidents of Travel in the Region, and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
Early Assiniboine Trading Posts of the Souris Mouth Group, 1785-1832: Amplification of a Paper Read Before the Society, November 1928
The Forks and the Battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba History
Friends, Foes, and Furs : George Nelson's Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804-1822
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society 1670-1870
A General Statement and Report Relative to the Disturbances in the Indian Territories of British North America for Inquiring into the Offences Committed in the Said Indian Territories ...
The Genesis of a Trading Post Band: The Pembina Chippewa
History of Manitoba: From the Earliest Settlement to 1835 ... ; and From 1835 to the Admission of the Province into the Dominion
Hold High Your Heads: History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada
Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition
Memorandum in Support of an Address to Her Majesty from the Inhabitants of Red River Settlement, Praying to be Formed Into A Crown Colony
Native Sons of Rupert's Land 1760 to the 1860s
A New Nation: The Métis
Chapter 9 of People and Stories of Canada to 1867 by Michele Visser-Wikkerink and E. Leigh Syms. Recommended by Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth as a Manitoba Grade 5 Social Studies learning resource.
The Northern Great Plains: Pantry of the Northwestern Fur Trade, 1774–1885
Northwest Changes
Power point looks at how the conflict between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Northwest Company influenced events in the Red River Settlement which ultimately led to the Battle of Seven Oaks.
Norway House: A Brief History: From Its Beginnings to Treaty Adhesions in 1908
Notes and Comments on Harmon’s Journal 1800-1820
L'Ouest Canadian, sa découverte par le Sieur de la Vérendrye, son exploitation par les compagnies de Traiteurs jusqu'à l'année 1822
Postscript to the Statement Respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon the Red River, in North America.
"Attributed to John Halkett--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints."
Reconstituting the Fur Trade Community of the Assiniboine Basin, 1793 to 1812
The Red-Assiniboine Junction: A Land Use and Structural History, 1770-1980
Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
Red River Rendezvous
Report of Trials in the Courts of Canada, Relative to the Destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River; with Observations
Rivalry in the Fur Trade, An Excerpt from Simpson's Athabasca Journal
A Selkirk Settlement Sourcebook
Compilation of primary sources.
Seven Oaks: An Account of the Affair of Seven Oaks; and a Report of Proceedings of the Gathering for the Unveiling of the “Seven Oaks Monument,” June 19th, 1891
Authors present two different viewpoints on the Battle. Bryce regards it as a massacre, while Bell adopts a more neutral stance.