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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
Hold High Your Heads: History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada
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
A Métis Métier: Transportation in Rupert's Land
A Mother and Father of Pembina: A NWC Voyageur Meets the Granddaughter of The Buffaloe
Highlights the life of a North West Company voyageur and his Indigenous wife that bore Métis children.
The National Policy, the Department of the Interior and Original Settlers: Land Claims of the Metis, Green Lake, Saskatchewan 1909-1930
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.
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
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
The Scotsman in Canada, Volume II
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.