Timeline

By Tantoine15
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  • The Bison Hunt

    Metis hunted Bison for emmican and buffalo robes.

  • The Land Grant

    The H.B.C gave Lord Selkirk a land grant of 116,000 acres centred of the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.

  • The Pemmican Proclamation

    Miles Macdonnell passes a law that stopped the export of pemmican

  • The Battle of Seven Oaks

    28 men led by Robert Semple rode out to confornt the metis. The metis killed Semple and 20 of his men in 15 minutes.

  • Lord Selkirk

    Also known as Thomas Douglas, was born in 1771 and died in 1820. He asstablished a settlement in Baldon UK.

  • John West

    born in 1778 and was the son of a Anglican minister, ordained in 1806. arrived in Red River i 1820 as Rupert's Lands first protestant missionary.

  • Miles Macdonnell

    He was born in 1767 and he died in 1828. He was also a soldier.

  • Alexander Macdonnell

    Born in 1762 and died in 1840. He was the first catholic bishop of Kingston, Upper Canada.

  • Polish rebellion against Russia defeated

    The polish tryed to rebel against Russia and they failed.

  • Duncan Cameron

    Born in 1762 and died in 1848. He was a canadian fur trader.

  • Great Potato Famine in Ireland

    A horible event that killed alot of Irish people.

  • Cuthbert Grant

    Born in 1793 and died in 1854. He was the captain of the metis.

  • Abraham Lincoln becomes President of America

    This was a major event in american history.

  • Anti-black Ku Klux Klan formed

    A group of people that hated black people.

  • The Manatoba Act

    The lands surrounding the Red River Vally was the new provence of Manatoba.

  • The Metis Move

    The metis moved to the northwest to find other metis communities.

  • The Cypress Hills Masacre

    A group of nakota were camping at Cypress Hills when they got attacked by a group of american wolfers. 20 nakotas were killed.