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A snug little flock : the social origins of the Riel Resistance, 1869-70
(Watson and Dwyer, 1991)
Questions about the identities of the mixed-blood Indian-European peoples of Canada and the United States have puzzled historians and anthropologists in both countries. Who are the mixedbloods of North America? Why do they ...
The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society, 1670-1870
(The Canadian Historical Association, 1987)
The political, economic, and social history of present day Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, was, for the first two hundred years of European contact, a product of the fur trade. At various posts ...
The Historiography of the Red River Settlement, 1830-1868
(Prairie Forum, 1981)
In the many studies of the Red River Settlement written since 1856, the prime factors affecting the Settlement have been variously conceived as economic, geographic or political. In contrast to the traditional historical ...
Some comments on the social origins of the Riel Protest of 1869
(1979)
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 ...
The Rev. James Evans and the social antagonisms of the fur trade society, 1840-1846
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1974)
In 1839 the Hudson's Bay Company invited four Methodist missionaries, James Evans, William Mason, Robert T. Rundle and George Barnley, to educate the heathen in Rupert's Land. By 1848 only Mason remained, and in 1854 he ...
The Rev. Griffiths Owen Corbett and the Red River Civil War of 1869-70
(University of Toronto Press (http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=CHR.html), 1976-06)
G.F.G. Stanley and W.L. Morton have offered two contradictory and well documented interpretations of the first Riel resistance. Professor Stanley places the resistance within the framework of the frontier thesis. To him ...
Protestant agricultural Zions for the western Indian
(Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, 1972-09)
Three evangelical Protestant denominations, the Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians established missions in the Canadian West from 1820 to 1870. Their success was marginal, with no missionary achieving the ultimate ...
Interpretation on the New Frontier:The Alberta Experience
(Alberta Museums Review, 1994)
The author has provided a thought-provoking analysis of the origins and influences of the heritage interpretation field in Alberta. He explores the effect successive generations of immigrants have had on the culture of the ...
The Medicine Line and the Thin Red Line
(Montana, the Magazine of Western History, 1996)
The Medicine Line, the name given by the Blackfoot to the Canadian-American border, reflects the "magic" that it imposes on certain people. How can similar peoples sharing the same continent be so different when divided ...
The Anglican Church and the disintegration of Red River society, 1818-1870.
(McLellan and Stewart Limited, 1976)
In 1821 Red River was desolate, destitute and barbarous. The uncompromising struggle of the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company for control of the British North American Fur trade bred ruthlessness and violence. ...