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The Execution of Louis Riel: Speech of the Hon. John S. D. Thompson, Minister of Justice
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
John. S. D. Thompson
Description
Speech made in the House of Commons.
Province of Canada, Documents Relating to the North-West Territories (1865)
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Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 4th Sess, 1865
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Province of Canada, Legislative Assembly
Description
Primary topic is negotiations between the British government and the Hudson's Bay Company for the cession of of the Company's rights back to the Crown and the Government of Canada's desire to annex the lands granted in the Charter of the Company.
Source: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 8th Parl, 4th Sess, 1865 at 44-57.
A Sketch of the British Fur Trade in North America; with Observations Relative to the North-West Company of Montreal
E-Books
Author/Creator
The Earl of Selkirk [Thomas Douglas]
Description
2nd edition
“This Spurious Philanthropy”: Indian Policy, Food and Canada’s North-West As Discussed in the Senate of Canada in 1886
Documents & Presentations
Description
"The evidence provided to this commission provides an interesting record of thoughts by the government and (mostly non-Indigenous, male) experts about food, Indigenous people and the Canadian North-West ten years after the near-extinction of the buffalo."
"To Christianize and Civilize": Settler Motives and Residential Schools
E-Books
Description
Compilation of primary sources which represent the settler's perspectives on the schools.