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Rupert's Land sold
The Government of Canada, Great Britian and the Hudson's Bay Company sign an agreement that declared Rupert's land is sold to the Dominion of Canada. Métis are not consulted. -
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Metis Rights timeline
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Red River meeting
People from Red River (French and English) meet to create a plan for negotiating with the federal government. Louis Riel proposes forming a provisional government. -
Provisional Government created
Louis Riel is elected President of the new provisional government. -
Thomas Scott hung
Thomas Scott, a military and orange man, is tried and hung by the Government. -
Riel leaves to the U.S
Louis Riel has to leave Manitoba to escape being caught. In the meantime, the Manitoba Act is signed, bringing Manitoba into confederation. -
Louis Riel returns
Louis Riel returns from the U.S with his family after the Metis petition for him back. -
Riel reforms provisional government.
Not long after his return home, Louis Riel takes control of government. again. -
Riel makes police surrender
Like it says up there, Riel finds the police that are chasing after him and commands the to surrender and stop the chase. -
The march to Batoche begins
General Middleton is in charge and has; 5,456 junior offices and men, 586 horses, 8 9-pound cannons, 2 Gattling guns, 6000 Snider-Enfield .50 caliber rifles, 1000 Winchester repeating rifles. At no time did the fighting force of the Métis ever exceed 350 men. -
Louis Riel surrenders
He surrenders to Thomas Hourie, a Metis scout. He gets chraged with treason. -
50 NWMP are sent from Swan River to Manitoba
The reason they were is because rumors of a Metis insurrection were surfacing and they had to check it out to see if they were true. -
Louis Riel is hung.
Louis Riel gets hung outside the NWMP post in Regina, Saskatchewan. -
Metis settle in St. Paul des Metis
They move onto this Catholic land and build farms and families until the settlement closed. -
Metis leave St. Paul de Metis
They never had a title to the land, so when the settlement closed, they had to leave. -
First Metis organization in Canada
The name of the group was "The Metis nation of Saskatchewan" -
Metis lobby Canadian government
"L'Association des Metis de l'Alberta et des Territoires du Nord-Ouest" lobby for the alberta government to set aside land for the Metis people. In the same year, the Metis Population Betterment Act was made, and granted the Metis the first land rights theyve ever had in Alberta. -
The land granted to the Metis is taken back
The settlements the metis had were only temporary, therfore once they werent suitable for hunting, fishing, or farming, the Government of Alberta took the land back. -
Metis get rights given to them
Under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Constitution Act of 1982, the Métis are recognized as Aboriginal peoples with specific rights. -
Metis recieve permamnent settlement
The Alberta government sets aside land for the Metis again, but this time, its permanent land, The legislation that helped do this consisted of these: The Constitution of Alberta Amendment Act
Metis Settlements Accord Incompletion Act
Metis Settlement Act
Metis Settlements Land Protection Act
And this also allowed the Metis the right to help in the development of oil and gas resources withing their lands. -
Metis gain the right to hunt and fish
The Supreme Court ruled that the Metis have the right to hunt and fish as one of Canada's Aboriginal peoples under the constitution. They realized Metis have a connection to their land. -
Metis are allowed to fish in hunt without a license
The Government of Alberta decides that when in the specified land, the Metis do not need a license ot hunt or fish. -
Court case for metis compensation starts
Where Winnipeg is is where the Metis land wouldve been if they would hae had their land reclaimed. I a courst case they tried to get compensated for what they lost, but it didnt happen.
