1885 Canadian Pacific Railway Telegrams
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeremy Mohr
Saskatchewan History, vol. 68, no. 1, Spring, 2016, pp. 6-11
Description
Brief article describes the Saskatchewan Archives acquisition of a ledger of telegraphs from the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) telegraph station at Clark’s Crossing, near Saskatoon, dated April 18 - June 26, 1885. Many telegraphs discuss the battles of the 1885 North-West Resistance, the capture of Louis Riel, and contain historically relevant names: Edgar Dewdney, Major General Middlton, Pasqua (Chief Paskwa), Pitikwahanapiwiyin (Chief Poundmaker), Mistahimaskwa (Chief Big Bear), Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Entire issue on one PDF, scroll to page 6.
1885 Resistance: Why Did it Happen?
Alternate Title
2010 - The Year of the Métis
Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Morin
Darren Prefontaine
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 1, January 2010, p. 11
Description
Provides a brief description of the reasoning behind the 1885 Resistance, and a chronology of events.
Article found by scrolling to page 11.
91st Battalion, Qu'Appelle, N.W.T. - [1885?].
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
[O.B. Buell] (photographer)
Description
Group photograph of the 91th Battalion of Winnipeg. Men in photograph not identified by rows; Lieut.Col. Thos. Scott, M.P., Commanding; Majors, D.H. McMillan and Stuart Mulvey; Adjutant, Capt. W.C. Copeland; Quartermaster, Capt. W.H. Bruce; Surgeon, Maurice M. Seymour; Asst.-Surgeon, Frank Keele; Inspector of Musketry, A.W. Laws; Capts. J.A. McD. Rowe, Thos. Wastie, Wm. Sheppard, S.J. Jackson, J.H. Kennedy, J.C. Waugh, R.W.A. Rolph, Jno. Crawford; Liets., F.I. Bamford, E.C. Smith, R.C. Brown, J.B. Rutherford, Major A. Cotes, Feo. A. Gilan, A. Monkman, A.P. Cameron; 2nd Lieuts., W.J.
The Amnesty: Memoir on the Causes of the Troubles in the Northwest and the Negotiations That Brought about Their Amicable Settlement
Alternate Title
L’amnistie: mémoire sur les causes des troubles du Nord-Ouest et sur les négociations qui ont amené leur règlement amiable
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Louis Riel
Description
Translation of an article which appeared in Le Nouveau Monde, February 4, 1874.
The Attitude of the Roman Catholic Clergy Towards the Rebellions in 1870 and 1885
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
A.N. Lalonde
Native Studies Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1984, pp. 78-81
Description
Discusses the change from tacit approval of Riel's actions in 1869-1870 to condemnation of the use of violence in 1884-1885. Author offers hypotheses about why the change occurred.
The Bill That Will Not Die
Alternate Title
Comment
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Chartrand
Eagle Feather News, vol. 13, no. 12, December 2010, p. 6
Description
Comments on Bill C-248, introduced to parliament by Member of Parliament Pat Martin, that would exonerate or pardon Riel.
Article found by scrolling to page 6.
Book Review
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Rob Nestor
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 2, 1997, pp. 370-372
Description
Book review on: The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller by Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde Jr..
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Various authors
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, 1991, pp. 351-395
Description
Book reviews of 17 books:
wanisinwak iskwesisak; awasisasinahikanis/Two Little Girls Lost in the Bush; A Cree Story for Children told by Nehiyaw/Glecia Bear, edited and translated by Freda Ahenakew and H. C. Wolfart.
The Geography of the Canadian North by Robert Bone.
The Queen's People: A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canada by Peter Carstens.
Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers by James A.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
D. N. Sprague
Gary M. Heathcote
Eileen M. McFadden
F. J. Shore
David T. McNab
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 2, 1983, pp. 397-410
Description
Book reviews of 5 books:
Riel and the Rebellion: 1885 Reconsidered by Thomas Flanagan.
Eskimos and Explorers by Wendell H. Oswalt.
Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics by David C. Pentland and Christoph Wolfart.
The Genealogy of the First Métis Nation: The Development and Dispersal of the Red River Settlement, 1820-1900 by D.M. Sprague and R.P. Frye.
Hold High Your Heads, (History of the Métis Nation in Western Canada by A. H. de Tremaudan.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Friesen
K. Wilson
Scott Clark
Ken Hanly
George F. G. Stanley
et al.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 1981, pp. 217-257
Description
Book reviews of 23 books:
The Forces Which Shaped Them: A History of the Education of Minority Group Children in British Columbia by Mary Ashworth.
Forty Years a Chief by George Barker.
A History of Native Claims Processes in Canada, 1867-1979 by Richard C. Daniel.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence by Vine Deloria
The Covenant Chain: Indian Ceremonial and Indian Trade Silver by N.
Changes Come to the Canadian Prairies
Alternate Title
Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Michael Cranny]
Description
Focuses on the numbered treaties and their effect on First Nations and the Métis, and the causes and impacts of the North-West Resistance. Intended for Grade 10 Social Studies students.
Chapter from Horizons: Canada's Emerging Identity, 2nd Edition, by Michael Cranny.
Chapter XXX -- "Louis Riel's End"
Alternate Title
The Story of Saskatchewan and Its People
E-Books
Author/Creator
John Hawkes
Description
Chapter XXX discusses the execution of Riel and the national reaction before and after. There are several quotations from Riel and his final letter to his mother appears in full.
Extract from The Story of Saskatchewan and Its People by John Hawkes.
The Collected Writings of Louis Riel / Les Ecrits Complets de Louis Riel
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
F. Pannekoek
Prairie Forum, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring, 1986
Description
Book review of: The Collected Writings of Louis Riel / Les Ecrits Complets de Louis Riel, general editor George F. G. Stanley; edited by Raymond Huel, Gilles Martel, Glen Campbell, Thomas Flanagan and Claude Rocan.
Comite / Riel-Ritchot de Saint-Norbert.
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Comite Riel-Ritchot de Saint-Norbert
Description
Leaflet seeking funds to hold a celebration in St. Norbert, Manitoba in 1985 relating to Manitoba entering Confederation in 1870, with Louis Riel and Father Noel-Joseph Ritchot being hailed as Fathers of Confederation.
Deconstructing History: An Analysis of Rita Bouvier's Poem "Riel Is Dead and I Am Alive"
Alternate Title
Representing Aboriginality: Aboriginal Literature and Film from the Post-Settler Colonies
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kate Osborne
Description
Concludes that Bouvier's poem causes the reader to reflect on Canadian colonial history and Canadian Métis history.
Dispossession vs. Accommodation in Plaintiff vs. Defendent Accounts of Métis Dispersal from Manitoba, 1870-1881
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
D. N. Sprague
Prairie Forum, vol. 16, no. 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 137-155
Description
Reviews and disputes the statistical evidence that suggests the Métis of Assiniboia were dispossessed by the governments of Canada and Manitoba.
[Documents and Papers Relating to Louis Riel and the North West Resistance]
Alternate Title
[Louis Riel: Documents and Papers Relating to Louis Riel and His Part in the North West Rebellion (Includes Copies of Documents Found on His Person at the Time He Was Captured)]
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Louis Riel
Description
Digitized documents are mainly transcribed copies. In two parts.
Edgar Dewdney and the Aftermath of the Rebellion
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jean Larmour
Saskatchewan History, vol. 23, no. 3, Autumn, 1970, pp. [105]-116
Description
Describes North-West Territories Lieutenant-Governor's opinions and influence in the trials of participants in the North-West Resistance, the restoration of the Canadian government’s authority in the Territories, and the relationship between the state and Indigenous peoples. Entire issue on one PDF file, scroll to page 105.
Encounter [Marie-Anne Lagimodière]
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maggie Siggins
The Beaver, vol. 82, no. 5, October/November 2002, p. 51
Description
Brief profile of Marie-Anne Lagimodière, grandmother to Louis Riel, reported to be the first white woman to live in the West .