This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... rivers, known as the Winnipeg district, which was beginning to feel the awakening touch of American industry, and has since been formed into the territories of Manitoba, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. A colony of Scotch settlers reached the Red river in 1812 under the encouragement of the enterprising Earl of Selkirk. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... rivers, known as the Winnipeg district, which was beginning to feel the awakening touch of American industry, and has since been formed into the territories of Manitoba, Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. A colony of Scotch settlers reached the Red river in 1812 under the encouragement of the enterprising Earl of Selkirk. For twelve years they had no regular form of government. Then for eleven years the Hudson Bay Company claimed the right to govern them. In 183 5 they co-operated with the Hudson Bay Company in the formation of a government by a president, and a council appointed by the president from among the settlers. In 1857 they sent a petition asking that their country might be formed into a crown colony, but met with no success. In 1858-9 they petitioned Canada for annexation, but Canada did not want to expand westward. After the British colonial government on the Pacific was organized, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, British colonial secretary, proclaimed the policy of continuous colonies from Lake Superior to the Pacific and a highway across British America as the most direct route from London to Japan and China.74 Upper Canada and the British government in 1859 saw the importance of extending settlements to the prairies of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan, but Lower Canada was opposed to a westward expansion policy and the Canadian government declined to institute proceedings in English courts to determine the validity of the Hudson Bay Company's charter--because the proposed litigation might be protracted. So, Lytton decided that the annexation of the Winnipeg basin to Canada was impracticable, and that the exclusive occupation of the Hudson Bay Company could be removed only by organizing a separate colony. The attitude of Canada in 1860 was expressed by the Tor...
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