Beginnings of the Red River Rebellion (Months and days are not accurate)

By argylelac

  • A large number of Metis are living in the Red River Valley

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    Beginnings of the Red River Rebellion(months and days are not accurate)

  • Selkirk receives 300,000 km of land from the Hudson's Bay Co

  • Land is called "Selkirk's Grant"

  • Miles Macdonell guides 36 Scottish and Irish farmers from England to the Red River

  • Grant's settlers arrive in the Red River area

  • Macdonell leads the group (now 156) to an area to clear land

  • The settlers winter at Fort Pembina

  • Macdonell issues the Pemmican Proclamation and banned the Metis sale of pemmican to the North West Co

  • This ban goes against Selkirk's instructions to "stay clear of the NWC"

  • Metis retaliate by burning buildings, destroying crops.

  • Cameron, a NWC cheif trader, convinces 133 colonists to leave the valley.

  • Settlers return to Red River under the guidance of Colin Robertson, who makes peace with the Metis and NWC

  • Robert Semple becomes governor of the new colony

  • Semple attacks and burns Fort Gibraltar, an NWC fort. Metis believe the colonists mean to declare war.

  • Cuthbert Grant leads a group of Metis to seize pemmican from HBC boats

  • Cuthbert and group arrive in the Red River colony

  • "Battle of the Seven Oaks" 20 of Semple's men are dead: one Metis is dead

  • Colonists retreat to Jack River House and the colony is destroyed

  • Selkirk leaves the Valley, believing he has settled many of the disputes.

  • Selkirk brings 95 Swiss mercenaries in to protect the settlers, who then return to build the colony for a third time.

  • Selkirk makes a treaty with local Aboriginal groups and receives the Red River Valley in return for 100 pounds of tobacco a year