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-leader of the NWMP
-defeated by the Metis at Duck Lake |
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-wealthy investor who was accused of bribing John A. Macdonald to get the CPR contract
-he was not given the contract and MacDonald resigned (Pacific Scandal) |
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-leader of the Blackfoot Nation
-did not participate in Northwest Rebellion |
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-general manager of the CPR -got the workers to build quickly [image] |
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| a piece of paper worth 160 acres of land; government issued these to Metis and First Nations people |
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| a settler who had been given land by the government |
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| Metis constitution, governed all aspects of life in the community |
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| Chief Factor at Fort Carlton, issued warrant for Gabriel Dumont's arrest |
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| main trading post of the American whiskey traders |
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| site of massacre of 30 Assiniboins by American whiskey traders |
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| agreement between the government and First Nations people |
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| a tax placed on imported goods, designed to protect Canadian businesses |
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| HBC investor who helped form the CPR syndicate; drove the last spike at Craigellechie |
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| site of final battle between the Metis and Canadian Troops |
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-Canadian prime minister who ignored the petition from Louis Riel |
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| Metis president of St. Laurent, strong military leader |
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| returned from Montana to lead the Metis in the 1885 rebellion |
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| leader of the Cree Nation; received a short prison sentence for his role in the Northwest Rebellion |
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| powerful new weapon used by the Canadian militia against the Metis at Batoche |
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| battle where small group of Metis held off 1600 Canadian troops |
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Alexander Mackenzie
[image]" I didn't even have a train set as a boy." |
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| Liberal prime minister who replaced Macdonald after the Pacific Scandal. He thought the CPR railway was a waste of money |
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| a large mammal hunted by the Metis and First Nations |
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| group of investors who won the CPR contract. They agreed to build the railway in return for 25 million dollars and 25 million acres of prairie farmland |
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General Middleton
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| Commander of the Militia of Canada. Despite a defeat at the Battle of Fish Creek, his cautious approach reached Batoche, Saskatchewan where the Métis surrendered after three days' bombardment. |
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Member of the CPR Syndicate
won a contract with the Government of Canada to build the Canadain Pacific Railway. |
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| In 1879, he won a series of contracts to build the western section of what is now the Canadian Pacific Railway. One of the more controversial aspects of Onderdonk's work in British Columbia was his use of Chinese workers. |
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