Events from the year 1870 in Canada.

1870
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Metis List of Rights calls for Rupert's Land and the Northwest to become the Province of Assiniboia[2]

President Louis Riel gives his first speech to the Red River provisional government[3]

Doubtful about Louis Riel, Prime Minister Macdonald begins assembling a military force[4]

MP praises liberal approach in creating Manitoba in House of Commons speech[5]

Red River resident objects to amnesty for Louis Riel and other leaders[6]

President Grant calls Canada unfriendly to U.S. fishers and shippers[7]

Call for a state-supported "Dominion University" in Canada[8]

McGill University's John William Dawson on science education abroad and its application to Canada[9]

Reports of smallpox among Blackfoot, Cree and other nations[10]

References edit

  1. ^ "Queen Victoria | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  2. ^ D'Arcy G. Vermette, "II.a.The Lists of Rights and Metis Demands," Beyond Doctrines of Dominance, pgs. 108-9. Accessed 21 September 2018
  3. ^ "Provisional Government; First Council Meeting; Speech of the President" The New Nation, Winnipeg, Vol. I, No. 10 (March 11, 1870), pg. 2. Accessed 20 September 2018
  4. ^ Joseph Pope, Memoirs of the Right Honourable Sir John Alexander Macdonald, G.C.B., First Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada (1894), pgs. 62-3. Accessed 10 September 2018
  5. ^ Adams George Archibald, Speech Delivered in the House of Commons by the Hon. A.G. Archibald, during the Debate on the "Manitoba Bill," May 7, 1870 (1870). Accessed 10 September 2018
  6. ^ Letter in "Report of the Select Committee on the Causes of the Difficulties in the North-West Territory in 1869-70," Journals of the House of Commons 1874, Vol. 8, Appendix 6, pg. 195. Accessed 10 September 2018
  7. ^ Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, 1789-1873; Monday, December 5, 1870, pgs. 15-18. Accessed 10 September 2018
  8. ^ R.G. (Robert Grant) Haliburton, Mr. Haliburton's Speech on the Young Men of the New Dominion; from the Ottawa Citizen, January 27, 1870. Accessed 10 September 2018
  9. ^ John William Dawson, Science Education Abroad, a Lecture; Being the Annual University Lecture of the Session 1870-71. Accessed 10 September 2018
  10. ^ William Francis Butler, Report by Lieutenant Butler, 69th Regt., of His Journey from Fort Garry to Rocky Mountain House and Back (1871), pgs. 9-12. Accessed 11 September 2018