WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES
OF CONFEDERATION?
OF CONFEDERATION?
This is Canada’s motto
“From Sea to Sea”
"We point out the situations where they may squat, we do not give them titles unless they make some arrangement for payment.… The majority have settled where they liked and we could not prevent them.” was a quote by this man.
George Simpson
After months of conflict, negotiations began between the provisional government and the Canadian government. The provisional government wanted to make sure that this territory became a province.
Manitoba
He sent armed forces to secure Red River, claiming it was to provide protection from Americans looking to annex Manitoba.
Sir John A. Macdonald
Within months of this Act, settlers from eastern Canada quickly moved to the new province.
the Manitoba Act
The Blackfoot Treaty (Treaty 7) took place this year.
1877
The conflict between this people and the Canadian government around the sale of Rupert’s Land is known as the Red River Resistance. Before the sale of Rupert’s Land was scheduled to be finalized in December 1869,
the Métis
The Canadian government passed the Manitoba Act on May 12, this year.
1870
Wolseley’s troops left this city in late May 1870 and arrived in Fort Garry at the end of August.
Toronto
To fulfill the land requirements of the Manitoba Act, the government issued a kind of coupons named like this, to the Métis. They could be exchanged for land or money.
scrip
He was the chief of the Siksika during the creation of Treaty 7.
Crowfoot
The first group of surveyors arrived in Fort Garry in August of this year for negotiations between the Métis and the Canadian government.
1869
The rest of the North-Western Territory and Rupert’s Land was renamed this way.
the North-West Territories
Riel's expedition arrived to find this town deserted in 1870.
Fort Garry
For example, scrip, such as the certificate shown in Figure 3.16 (page 85 of your Textbook), could be valued at $160 or this much land. If a Métis person accepted scrip, they lost their right to their Aboriginal land title. The Métis who had already settled in the area did not have any advantage over new settlers.
160 acres of land
In 1868, this company was preparing to sell Rupert’s Land to the British government.
Hudson’s Bay Company
This is the place where the Métis resistance took place in the late 1860s.
Red River
Over 5000 square kilometres of land, including the name of this present-day city, were to be set aside for the Métis. However, the Métis inhabitants had to apply for title to their own properties and register their legal ownership of the land.
Winnipeg
“Personally I was glad that Riel did not come out and surrender, as he at one time said he would, for I could not then have hanged him as I might have done had I taken him prisoner when in arms against his sovereign … So ended this Red River Expedition sent by the Government of Canada to put down Riel’s rebellion and restore order.” was a quote by this man.
Lieutenant-Colonel Garnet Wolseley
The arrival of immigrants from this province also brought a cultural change to Manitoba in the late XIX Century.
Ontario
As part of the sale of this, the new Canadian government promised to uphold British laws and recognize Aboriginal land titles.
Rupert’s Land
A group of Red River settlers calling themselves this attempted to overthrow the provisional government soon after it was established.
the Canadian Party
These two provinces conformed the central and western side of Canada in 1870, after the Manitoba Act.
Manitoba and British Columbia.
In the 1870 diary excerpt from his diary, mentioned in the last question, Wolseley describes arriving at Fort Garry and finding out this man had fled.
Louis Riel
By 1880, almost all of the Métis had decided to give up their land claims and move out of the province. Many headed west to this present-day province.
Saskatchewan