HST 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: North-West Rebellion
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1884, louis riel was teaching in montana. After he helped canadian government and gave up his seat, he moved to the us. A year later is was in an asylum near quebec city. Louis riel did not like to be contradicted. After he got out of the asylum, he moved out to the states, montana, teaching in a school. Metis started moving out west towards the north saskatchewan river because a lot of. As more metis moved out, canadian government surveyed the area. Metis gave up certain amount of land in manitoba, they wanted it there. When cpr was built, competing american railway just south of the border was being built as well. Rumors were people in office were assigning land titles to themselves which caused some outraged people. In 1872, government wanted the land for settlers. 1885, white people, original settlers lived south near the border.
