1885: Metis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
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Author/Creator
Don McLean
2nd edition.
Introduction and two archival items discuss the employment of Aboriginals in the agricultural sector. The first deals with the Dept. of Indian Affairs efforts to recruit them as migrant farm workers. The second discusses the exclusion of farm workers from protection under labour laws. Taken from the 1966 National Agricultural Manpower Committee Meeting.
Manitoba's premier expresses annoyance at what he considers an intrusion into a provincial matter by the federal government over a proposed hydroelectric project.