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A Guide to the Louis Riel Papers
Discusses documents found in the Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Archives de l'Archevêché de Saint-Boniface, Public Archives of Canada, Archives de la Chancellerie de l’Archevêché de Montréal, and Les Archives du Séminaire de Québec and the periods in Riel's life which are not represented in any collections. Two appendices list documents and the repositories in which they are found. Research was conducted as part of the Riel Project and published as The Collected Papers of Louis Riel.
Province of Canada, Documents Relating to the North-West Territories (1865)
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.