Lesson 6 changes to red river settlement
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The Red River Settlement& The Purchase of Rupert’s Land
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Vocabulary words
Red River SettlementMétis
Rupert’s LandHudson Bay Company
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The Red River Settlement
• Was peaceful after the violence of the early 1800s and The Incident at Seven Oaks
• The Settlement was made of Métis, Country born Europeans and New European Settlers.
• By the 1860s 80% of the population was Métis
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Daily Life in the Settlement
• Life was NOT easy• The settlement made its living from supplying
the HBC with goods.
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Daily Life
• HBC maintained a monopoly on the Fur Trade
• This upset the Metis… and in 1849 4 Metis were arrested for trading furs… the charges were eventually dropped.
• After this trial the Metis believed the Monopoly had been broken.
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A Self Sufficient Society
• Extremely isolated, had to depend upon themselves
- Fruits and veggies were rare, pemmican was a staple.
• Small town attitude.
• Women and Men worked side by side to survivein the harsh environment.
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Change on the Horizon• 1850s Canada began looking West for more
farmland… remember population growth in Canada West.
• 1860s more Canadian settlers began moving to Red River Area
• Most of the new settlers were part of an anti-French, anti-Catholic order: The Orange Order.
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Dr Schultz
• A business man starts up a newspaper in the settlement in 1860: The Nor’Wester
• Promoted hatred among the settlers directed at the Metis with the paper
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Economic Crisis
• The influx of settlers coincided with
- Crop Failures- Dwindling Buffalo Herds- The HBC losing interest in the area
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The Purchase of Rupert’s Land
• Canada West wanted control of Rupert’s Land- Realized its economic potential
• 1869, HBC sells Rupert’s Land for 1 500 000.00
• HBC also is given 2.8 million hectares
• …and is allowed to continue fur trade
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Canada goes from this…
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…to this
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• Put yourself in the shoes of a Métis resident living in the Red River area at this time.
What are some concerns you have with Canada buying the territory?
Métis Perspective
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Canada & HBC
• 1867 Began negotiating the sale of Rupert’s Land
• By 1868 the government sent land surveyors into the Red River area
• Ignored Metis living in the region
• Began laying out grid for towns and farms
Canada hadn’t even bought the area yet!
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…fairly different systems
Seigneurial vs Grid
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Why’d the HBC do that?
o Administering the territory and running the business was too expensive
o Furs supply was running low and the company wanted to diversify its operations