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Red River Settlement collection [textual record]

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Date:

1814-1830.

Reference:

R2918-0-9-E, MG19-E2

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101010

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Red River Settlement collection
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Collection includes:

3 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1814-1830.

Place of creation:

Manitoba

Added country of publication:

Michigan, Ontario

Extent:

10.8 cm of textual records : some transcripts.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Collection consists of a report by William B. Coltman, transcript, 1818, 521 pages; Montreal Court House records, transcript, 1814-1818, 10 cm; and correspondence, 1822-1830, 12 pages.

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Red River Settlement, 1814-1830

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Red River Settlement, 1814-1830 : Red River Settlement, agricultural colony in present Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota, was the undertaking of Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk. Wishing to relieve the dispossessed and impoverished in Scotland and Northern Ireland, he secured enough control of the Hudson's Bay Company to obtain from it a grant of land called Assiniboia. This project met opposition from the very start, principally from the North West Company, but also from the fur traders in the Hudson's Bay Company. Despite efforts to discourage the colony, Miles Macdonnell, a Selkirk man, brought a small group to the colony in 1812. The determined hostility of the North West Company mounted, especially after the company men had won the Métis entirely to their side. By cajolery and threat they persuaded settlers to desert, but a new group of settlers came, and the colony was restored in 1815. North West Company men and Métis now resorted to violence on a large scale, killing 22 in the massacre of Seven Oaks (June 19, 1816). On hearing the news of the massacre, Selkirk fell upon the North West Company post, Fort William, and seized it. Other attacks followed. The result of these moves was a series of court charges and countercharges that impoverished Selkirk and helped to bring about the union (1821) of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company. Agriculture had by this time been firmly established on the Western plains, and the Red River settlements were to grow and flourish. "Red River Settlement." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. . 29 March 2001. 206812

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid describes documents transcribed from records of the Montreal Court House. There is some loss of legibility in the scanned finding aid. Researchers may need to consult the paper version of the finding aid for some pages. MSS0907 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001754.pdf

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General note:

Transcript of a report by William B. Coltman, 1818, received in 1939 from Sir Joseph Adolphe Chapleau. Transcripts of Montreal Court House records, 1814-1818, copied from records in the Montreal Court House. Letters from Donald McKenzie, 1820-1830, received in 1942 from T.C. Elliott of Walla Walla, Wash.

Related material:

Further records relating to the Red River disturbances are to be found in RG 4-B46. They are described in finding aid no. 568.
Subject heading:

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Quebec (Province) - Courts - Records, 1814-1818 Montreal Court House, 1814-1818

Canada - Land Settlement, 1822-1830

Indians of North America - British North America, 1818
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Private

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MG19-E2
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG19 E 2] 1--3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 907] 87

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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