Smith, chief representative of the HBC in Canada. In response to McDougall’s rejection from Red River, the Canadian government sent three special commissioners to the settlement: Reverend Jean-Baptiste Thibault,Ĭolonel Charles de Salaberry, and Donald A. With Riel at its helm, it issued a "Declaration of the People of Rupert's Land and the North-West," which rejected Canada’s authority to govern the NorthwestĪnd proposed a negotiated settlement between Canada and the new provisional government. The Métis National Committee was consolidated as a provisional government in early December 1869. Printed Declaration of the People of Rupert’s Land and the North West issued by John Bruce and Louis Riel, 8 December 1869. The terms on which they would allow McDougall - and by extension Canadian authority - into the Northwest. The committee invited both the English and French speaking people of Red River to send delegates to Upper Fort Garry to discuss That same day, the Committee seized Upper Fort Garry from the HBC and, with little resistanceįrom HBC officials, took steps to establish itself, under Riel’s leadership, as the government of the Red River Settlement. Prevent William McDougall from entering the Red River Settlement on 2 November. Less than one month later, the committee established a roadblock to With Riel at its head, theĬommittee halted the Canadian land surveys on 11 October 1869 ( see Dominion Lands Act). As an articulate young man with an eastern education, Riel was elected as its secretary - and was later elected president. The social, cultural and political status of the Métis in Red River and the Northwest more generally. Immigrants from Ontario would follow, the Métis organized the Métis National Committee in order to protect Concerned that an influx of Anglo-Protestant Anticipating the transfer of these lands, the federal government appointed William McDougall as lieutenant-governor of the new territory and sent survey crews to Red River that August to assess and re-stake the lands. In March 1869, the HBC agreed to sell Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory toĭominion of Canada.
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