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The Year of the Sheep
The Highland Clearances began when many sheep were put onto lands by wealthy landowners. Scottish farmers and peasants were kicked off their land and emigrated to New Zealand, USA, and Canada. Some of these immigrants ended up in current day Winnipeg with help from Lord Selkirk (Thomas Douglas) -
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Unit 3
The Selkrik Colony- The Great War -
Selkirk Settlers Arrive
The first Selkirk settlers arrive in the area that is current day Winnipeg. They were mostly Scottish farmers who came to seek a better life in Rupertsland. -
The Pemmican Proclamation
Miles MACDONELL, the governor of Assiniboia and Lord Selkirk's agent, put forth a proclamation forbidding the export of PEMMICAN from the colony for a year. The proclamation was meant to ensure adequate provisions for settlers expected in summer. While it applied to both the Hudson's Bay Co and the North West Co, the latter saw the document as an HBC ploy designed to deny necessary provisions to NWC traders, many who were Metis. -
Battle of Seven Oaks
At Seven Oaks, near the HBC's Red River trading post, 25 Bay employees and settlers rode out to confront 61 Metis and Indians. In 20 minutes, 21 of the Settlers were killed and only 1 Metis had fallen. -
Merging of NWC and HBC into one company = HBC
Exhausted by the competition and violence, the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, two long time rivals, joined forces.They used the HBC name instead of NWC even though the NWC was a larger organization because of the HBC's charter which gave them control over 1/4 of North America. Tensions had grown ever since the Selkirk Settlers arrived in 1812. -
Indian Act
The Indian Act had 3 main goals: to assimilate the aboriginal peoples, to manage the reserves that they lived on, and to define who an aboriginal person was. -
Canadian Pacific Railway Completed
Donald Alexander Smith drove in the last railway spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It took 4 years to build. -
Klondike Gold Rush
An estimated 100,000 people participated in the gold rush in the Yukon, Canada. Historically, George Carmack was credited with discovering gold but many now believe it was an aboriginal man named Skookum Jim. -
The Great War Begins
Many saw the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary as the immediate cause of the Great War in Europe. Other factors were militarism, nationalism, imjperialism, and alliances which all contributed to the tensions in Europe. -
Bill C-31
Aboriginal women are now permitted to marry white men and retain their status, and their children's status, as aboriginal peoples.
