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Metis in Red River Valley
The Metis are thriving in the Red River Valley area. -
Selkirk settlement in the Red River Valley
The Founding of the Selkirk settlement in the Red River Valley. -
Cuthbert Grant raids HBC
Cuthbert Grant raids a Hudson's Bay Company pemmican supply on the Assiniboine River, to the west of the Red River. -
Merging of HBC and NWC
Both companies have begun to suffer financially, and after 200 years of trading furs their resources began to deplete. Profits were shrinking. -
Control Transfered
Control of Rupert's Land transferred to Canadian Government. The HBC realized that if it were going to survive as a business, it would have to focus on and diversify it's commercial operations and drop it's administrative duties to the territory. -
Execution of Thomas Scott
The execution of Thomas Scott and Manitoba enters confederation. -
Manitoba becomes a Province
As Manitoba became a Province the future looked bright for the Metis people but the promis soon dimmed. -
Treaties with the Natives Peoples
By the end of August Simpson had concluded Treaties 1 and 2, and the Native Peoples pf Manitoba had signed away their claim to their traditional homeland. -
Laws of St.Laurent
The laws of St.Laurent govern all aspects of life in the settlement including the bison hunt. They had strict bison hunting rules as it was necessary to conserve the bison for as long as possible. -
Assiniboin group attacked by whisky traders
A group of Assiniboin were attacked by a group of whisky traders in Cypress Hills. The Cyprus Hills Massacre took the lives of at least 30 assiniboin people. The NWMP sent 300 officers to the prairies to gain Canadian control of the area. -
Formula for Nation Building
Macdonald developed the National Policy, which became the basis of the Conservative election platform the 1878 election. -
Building of the CPR
The building of the CPR began in 1881 and it did not start off well. The construction was limited to the line running between Winnipeg and Brandon. James Hill spent the early fall of 1881 looking for a new general manager for the railway. -
CPR Completed
By the fall of 1885 the CPR railway was completed-- Five years before the original schedual.
