HST 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: North-West Rebellion
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Donald smith sent down to red river to convince them to come to an agreement with ottawa. Louie reil from 1870-85: suffered from , he believed the church was corrupt, he doesn"t like to be contradicted. The metis was given a piece of paper which give them title to their land: but they started to move up west, made a settlement called. They wanted them to re-survey there land but they wouldn"t. They couldn"t understand why they had to buy land. The cpr moved the railway south and therefore was no longer basing by many people up north. 1885, 23000 white people in manitoba near boarder, 4000 mixed, . Louie riel went to batoche to help: he got settlements from government, he made a massive petition, but it was treated like garbage. Louie sent message to north west police to have them surrender to them. The metis went down to duck lake to get supplies from trading post.
