The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970

The Seven Oaks incident, a violent clash between Métis and Hudson's Bay Company/Selkirk settlers at Red River in 1816, was long represented in Canadian historical discourse as a "massacre." In investigating the genesis of this interpretation, the paper examines the primary record and...

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Published in:Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
Main Author: Dick, Lyle
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: The Canadian Historical Association/La Société historique du Canada 1991
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Online Access:http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/031029ar
https://doi.org/10.7202/031029ar