The West

  • William McNeill of the Hudson's Bay Company, captain of the Beaver, visits the Island and reports favourably on one particular area at its southern tip.

  • Surveyors visit the praries

  • Coal discovered near the Nanaimo River.

  • Negroes offered land and freedom under the British flag.

  • America purchased Alaska

  • Rupertsland Act

  • Manitoba Act

  • North-West Territories Act

  • Louis Riel's Trial

  • Louis Riel Executed

  • Indian Act