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How Did the Confederation of Manitoba Take Place?
For use with high school students. Excerpt from Shaping Canada: Our Histories from the Beginning to Present by Linda Connor, Brian Hull, and Connie Wyatt Anderson.
“I’m Métis, What’s Your Excuse?”: On the Optics and the Ethics of the Misrecognition of Métis in Canada
Louis Riel Trial (1885)
Website contains links to trial transcript, chronology, selected maps, biography, and letters and diary entries introduced as evidence.
Métis Law Summary 2009
Métis Scrip in Alberta
Multiple Voices: Looking at the History of Batoche through the Eyes of Multiple Perspectives
Open History Seminar: Canadian History
Collection of primary and secondary sources suitable for use at secondary and post-secondary levels. Can be used to supplement Canadian History: Pre-Confederation and Canadian History: Post-Confederation.
Reconsidering Confederation: Canada's Founding Debates, 1864 - 1999
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Chapter Two: Compact, Contract, Covenant: The Evolution of First Nations Treaty-Making by J.R. Miller.
Chapter Six: Resisting Canada’s Will: Manitoba’s Entry into Confederation by Robert Wardhaugh and Barry Ferguson.
Chapter Eleven: “A More Accurate Face on Canada to the World”: The Creation of Nunavut by P. Whitney Lackenbauer and Andr&ecaute Légaré.