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Pathfinder for the Red River Colony and the conflict in the fur trade
(Pathfinders feature online resources combined with McMath library resources)
ONLINE RESOURCES
Red River Colony
A brief summary of the origins of the Selkirk settlement on the Red River.
The Lord Selkirk settlement at Red River
An extensive and detailed history of the settlement. Includes maps and images.
Selkirk Settlement and the Creation of Manitoba
Provides primary source documents on the settlement and on the Red River Rebellion.
Conflict of 1816 between the HBC and NWC
Information and primary source documents about the conflict in the Red River area between the HBC and the NWC after Selkirk’s settlement.
MetisNet, A Handbook of Metis Facts
This is the “R” section of the handbook, but links to all other sections. Scroll down to Red River Settlement, but read some of the other entries along the way.
The Selkirk settlers in real life
Presents the viewpoint of the Scottish settlers in the Red River.
The NorthWest Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1793-1821
This section is part of a much longer section dealing with the fur trade experience, but includes information on the problems in Red River.
A brief chronology of events relative to Lord Selkirk’s settlement, 1811-1815
A very useful chronology of events.
Chronology of events in the history of the Red River Settlement, 1815-1836
This continues the Red River chronology from 1815. (see previous)
The continental fur trade
Provides a chronology and information about the activityies of the HBC and the NWC in the Oregon Territory (now BC and Washington).
Exploration, the fur trade and Hudson’s Bay Company
This is the site map for this very extensive site. Be sure to scroll through all the titles and view only those you think are applicable to our time period.
The fur trade - the Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Companies
Written from a Métis perspective.
Northwest Company
Scroll down to Encyclopedia articles and being reading there. Scroll to end of encyclopedia articles and look at the ‘Mentioned In’ articles for additional information on specific topics or people (e.g. Red River Settlement, etc.)
BOOKS IN McMATH LIBRARY
971.01 TOW The North West Company : frontier merchants
971.2 DUQ The Fur trade in Rupert's Land : opening up the Canadian Northwest
971.2 MAT Footsteps in the snow
971.2 MOO Adventurers : Hudson's Bay Company, the epic story
971.2 NEW Company of adventurers
971.2 NEW Empire of the bay : an illustrated history of the Hudson's Bay Company
971.2 THO Fiorging the Prairie West
971.2 WOO Hudson’s Bay Company
971.201 BUM Fur Trade Wars
971.27 LAW Manitoba (Exploring Canada series) (pages 35-40)
971.27 WIL Red River Settlement
VIDEOS IN McMATH LIBRARY
VHS 971.2 EMP Battle for the Bay
VHS 971.2 EMP Empire, Inc.
VERTICAL FILE RESOURCES IN McMATH LIBRARY
VF 971.054 Metis Development and the Canadian West is a series of five booklets which examine the development of Metis culture and the role of the Metis in western Canada. Each booklet includes illustrations and maps. Book 1: Contrasting worlds is an overview of the Canadian West from the 1600’s to the early 1870’s when many of the Metis moved from the Red River area to Saskatchewan.
SEE ALSO Development of the Canadian West
• General history of Canada books in 971
• your textbooks
• the Canadian Encyclopedia online (accessible from the Library homepage)
• You may also wish to look at resources for the Métis and First Nations in the 1800’s, the 1870 Red River Rebellion, and the 1885 Northwest Rebellion.
• Check out biographies of some of the key people using the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online link from the Library homepage.
This page is created and maintained by Ms. B. Knoepfel (Teacher-Librarian), McMath Secondary School.
Updated March 2007.
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