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Council of Assiniboia

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the governing council of the Red River Colony (Assiniboia) from 1835-1870, made up of a president, namely the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, and councillors appointed by the Company.

Quotations

1913

The proper course for Governor McTavish and the Council of Assiniboine to have taken was to have suppressed the Nor'wester newspaper for seditious libel against the constituted authorities.

1921

So in 1835 he [Sir George Simpson] asked permission of the company's executive in London and secured the appointment of the "Council of Assiniboia," consisting of himself as president and fifteen influential members of the Red River colony as councillors.

1963

. . . Alexander Macdonell [was] now a member of the Council of Assiniboia.