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Red River Rebellion

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an uprising of Métis, and some early white settlers in the Red River area in 1870, led by Louis Riel and caused by encroachment on prairie lands by the Canadian government.

See: Northwest Rebellion(def. 1)

Quotations

1884

Now in the days of the Red River rebellion . . . Mr. Riel may have been the best man they had for the purpose, although the event justified at least a doubt upon this head.

1934

Why . . . was not this area left in the status of a territory? The reason was the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70.

1946

There is some evidence for believing that the surveyors not only trespassed but talked boastfully too about Canada taking over, making suggestions that the Met is would then have their lands taken away from them. Here was a major cause of the so called Red River "Rebellion" of 1870.

1958

The outcome of the Red River Rebellion was the creation, prematurely, of the province of Manitoba. . . .