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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.
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
The Forks and the Battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba History
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
Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition
Narrative Respecting the Destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon Red River, in the Year 1815
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.
Norway House: A Brief History: From Its Beginnings to Treaty Adhesions in 1908
Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
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.