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Correspondence

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File

Date:

1815

Reference:

RG4-B46, Volume number: 620

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5103234

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Civil Secretary's correspondence. Quebec, Lower Canada and Canada East

B 46 - Commission of inquiry into the Red River Disturbances. Lower Canada

Correspondence
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Date(s):

1815

Place of creation:

Manitoba

Extent:

1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of correspondence and documents related to the resistance to the settlement of Red River; the territories of Cree and Saulteaux and Sioux communities; the impact of the Red River settlement on the fur trade; carrying places (portage routes) between Montréal, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake of the Woods, and Red River.

File also consists of statements by the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company and statements by the agents of the North West Company related to the founding of the colony at Red River.

Correspondents in file include Lord Bathurst; Lord Selkirk; Joseph Berens; J. Harvey; William McGillivray; Alexander McDonell; Miles McDonell; Duncan Cameron; Sir Gordon Drummond; John McNab; Major Loring; John McLeod; William Robinsnon, and the firm of Maitland, Garden & Auldjo.
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Correspondent: Drummond, Gordon, Sir, 1772-1854

Correspondent: Bathurst, Henry Bathurst, Earl, 1762-1834

Correspondent: Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 1771-1820

Correspondent: Harvey, John, Sir, 1778-1852

Correspondent: McGillivray, William, 1764?-1825

Correspondent: Loring, Robert Roberts, ca. 1789-1848

Correspondent: McNab, John, 1755-ca. 1820

North West Company

Hudson's Bay Company
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MSS0568

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Note on the state of conservation:

Originals are very fragile.

Source:

Private

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RG4-B46
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [RG4 A 1]

[Consultation 90 Open]

620 Page 1--137

[Consultation 90 Open]

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