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1885: Metis Rebellion or Government Conspiracy?
The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay: A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North
Historical social studies textbook.
Battle at Fort Edmonton: Fur Traders Under Siege
Battle of Seven Oaks
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.
[Book Reviews]
Book Reviews:
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
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
Chapter XVII -- "The Hudson's Bay Company"
The Chilcotin Uprising of 1864
Correspondence Relating to Disturbances at Red River, 1869-70
Cree with Trade Gun
The Difficulties of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Penetration of the West
Duel at Ile-à-la’Crosse
Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier. Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle.
An Ethnohistorical Overview of Groups with Ties to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company
The Forks and the Battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba History
Fort Carlton / A Saskatchewan Historic Site - Pamphlet. - 1967.
Historical note:
Fort Carlton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post from 1810 until 1885. As a Company post it primarily dealt in provisions, namely pemmican and buffalo robes although other furs were traded as well.Fort Carlton - Newspaper clipping. - 16 May 1955.
Forty Years in the North-West
Historical note:
W.J. Carter was a carpenter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (NWT).From Seven Oaks to Batoche: Métis Resistance in History and Narrative
The Fur Trade and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism
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 ...
The Gros Ventres and the Canadian Fur Trade 1754-1831
History of Manitoba: From the Earliest Settlement to 1835 ... ; and From 1835 to the Admission of the Province into the Dominion
Home from the Hill: A History of Métis in Western Canada
2nd edition.
Indians of British Columbia. - Booklet. - November 1964.
Indians of the Yukon and the Northwest Territories - Booklet. - March 1966.
Indians of Yukon and Northwest Territories - Booklet. - March 1967.
Introductory Timeline of Settler Colonialism in Saskatchewan
Jemmy Jock Bird: Marginal Man on the Blackfoot Frontier
Law and Criminal Labels: The Case of the French Métis in Western Canada
[Louis Riel's Part in Metis History and His Legacy in Canadian Culture]
Lower Fort Garry: A History of the Stone Fort
Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition
Mapping Culture Onto Geography: "Distance From the Fort" in Samuel Hearne's Journal
The Metis and the Spirit of Resistance
The Metis: Colonization, Culture Change and the Saskatchewan Rebellion of 1885
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1976.
Narrative Respecting the Destruction of the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon Red River, in the Year 1815
Narratives of John Pritchard, Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun, and Frederick Damien Heurter, Respecting the Aggressions of the North-West Company, against the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon Red River
Native American Tribalism: Indian Survivals and Renewals
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.
"Ninstints" Village: A Case of Mistaken Identity
The North West Company
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.