HISB40H3 Lecture Notes - Red River Colony, American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions, Land Run
Document Summary
Reil, national committee, land rush, alienation, provisional government, scott, orangeman, M tis uprising: origins of expansionist movement: missionary, commercial, and nationalist motives, religion, greed and nationalism are three reasons, religious or missionary motives: in 1840 ontarians received report from protestant missionaries. Because of fur trade and nomadic hunt, the inhabitants of. The missionaries blamed on hbc because they kept the natives on fur trade and hunting instead of farming stuff. Initially wanted to spread christianity: 2nd reason economic: nw was considered a wilderness area for a long time suitable only for hunting trade. 1870 people sued hbc for given wrong reasons. These writers said that the nw was rich in agricultural settlement and this got some ontarians to think of nw as commercial possibilities: so led by george brown and his grit party called for annexation for nw. They say certain political opportunities: more power for anglo party more seats, end french domination.
