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"As Their Natural Resources Fail": Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
'As Their Natural Resources Fail': Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba: 1870-1930
As Their Natural Resources Fail: Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
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.
Blanketing a Nation: Tracing the Social Life of the Hudson's Bay Company Point Blanket Through Canadian Visual Culture
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
Digital Archives Database
Dr. Russell's Carlton Trail
A Few Words on the Hudson's Bay Company: With a Statement of the Grievances of the Native and Half-caste Indians, Addressed to the British Government Through their Delegates Now in London
The Forks and the Battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba History
From the Red River Settlement to Manitoba (1812-70)
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 ...
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
The Hudson's Bay Company's Land Tenures And the Occupation of Assiniboia, by Lord Selkirk's Settlers, with A List of Grantees Under the Earl And the Company
The Hudson's Bay Company's Monopoly of the Fur Trade at the Red River Settlement, 1821-1850
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society Association ; vol. 7
James McKay (1828-1879): Métis Trader, Guide, Interpreter and MLA
Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
Law and Criminal Labels: The Case of the French Métis in Western Canada
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Manitoba and Canada's North-West: Founders and Builders
Special issue of Canadian Issues containing articles which focus on the Métis and the formation of Manitoba.
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.
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.
Our Land
Pioneers of Rupert's Land
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
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Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.
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
Riel et la Naissance du Manitoba - 1921.
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.