Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ...
The English-speaking folk of Red River looked with excitement and hope on the debates that surrounded the confederation of the eastern provinces. The Protestant Canadians, arriving in vocal and visible numbers in the 1860s to farm along the Assiniboine and to trade in the small village of Winnipeg,...
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Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications
1979
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| author | Pannekoek, Frits, 1949- |
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| description | The English-speaking folk of Red River looked with excitement and hope on the debates that surrounded the confederation of the eastern provinces. The Protestant Canadians, arriving in vocal and visible numbers in the 1860s to farm along the Assiniboine and to trade in the small village of Winnipeg, provided ample evidence of the vigour that the new connection would bring. All were anxious that union be effected quickly and quietly. Even the Protestant English speaking mixed-bloods looked to Canada to pull Red River out of its morass of pettiness and squalor. When it became clear that Canada had secured the chartered land of the Hudson's Bay Company, most were ready, indeed anxious, to welcome the Canadian Governor, no matter how obnoxious he might be. (Metis) ... |
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| spelling | ftdatacite:10.11575/prism/29853 2025-04-27T14:32:36+00:00 Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... Pannekoek, Frits, 1949- 1979 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/29853 https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/handle/1880/44193 unknown Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications Hudson's Bay Company Confederation--Canada Red River--history Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 Riel Rebellion, 1885 Assiniboine article CreativeWork 1979 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.11575/prism/29853 2025-04-02T15:26:54Z The English-speaking folk of Red River looked with excitement and hope on the debates that surrounded the confederation of the eastern provinces. The Protestant Canadians, arriving in vocal and visible numbers in the 1860s to farm along the Assiniboine and to trade in the small village of Winnipeg, provided ample evidence of the vigour that the new connection would bring. All were anxious that union be effected quickly and quietly. Even the Protestant English speaking mixed-bloods looked to Canada to pull Red River out of its morass of pettiness and squalor. When it became clear that Canada had secured the chartered land of the Hudson's Bay Company, most were ready, indeed anxious, to welcome the Canadian Governor, no matter how obnoxious he might be. (Metis) ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Metis DataCite Canada |
| spellingShingle | Hudson's Bay Company Confederation--Canada Red River--history Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 Riel Rebellion, 1885 Assiniboine Pannekoek, Frits, 1949- Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... |
| title | Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... |
| title_full | Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... |
| title_fullStr | Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... |
| title_full_unstemmed | Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... |
| title_short | Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869 ... |
| title_sort | some comments on the social origins of the riel protest of 1869 ... |
| topic | Hudson's Bay Company Confederation--Canada Red River--history Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 Riel Rebellion, 1885 Assiniboine |
| topic_facet | Hudson's Bay Company Confederation--Canada Red River--history Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 Riel Rebellion, 1885 Assiniboine |
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