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    The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk...
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    provisional government by Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in the early stages of establishing today's Canadian province of Manitoba...
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    Red River and on the plains west of the Red River Colony. The cart is a simple conveyance developed by Métis for use in their settlement on the Red River...
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  • States Red River Army Depot, in Texas, United States Red River Colony, in Manitoba, Canada Red River, Queensland, a rural locality in Australia Red River County...
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    Canadas from 1812 to 1821. It started after the establishment of the Red River Colony by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1812, and ended in 1821 when...
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    The Red River Valley is a region in central North America that is drained by the Red River of the North; it is part of both Canada and the United States...
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    parallel and east of the Continental Divide, including all of the Red River Colony south of that latitude, while the United States ceded the northernmost...
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    Fort Nisqually and Fort Colvile and one-time deputy governor of the Red River Colony. McDonald was born in Leechkentium (Scottish Gaelic: Leac an Tuim)...
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    Miles Macdonell (category People from Red River Colony)
    Miles MacDonell (c. 1767 – 28 June 1828) was the first governor of the Red River Colony (or, Assiniboia), a 19th-century Scottish settlement located in present-day...
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  • Alfred Henry Scott (Canadian politician) (category People of the Red River Rebellion)
    Henry Scott (c. 1840 – 28 May 1872) was a bartender and clerk at the Red River Colony community of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, and was noted for having been...
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    The Red River Trails were a network of ox cart routes connecting the Red River Colony (the "Selkirk Settlement") and Fort Garry in British North America...
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    Red River Colony in the area from The Forks (where the Red River and Assiniboine River meet in what is now downtown Winnipeg) to the mouth of the Red...
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    The Red River (French: rivière Rouge), also called the Red River of the North (French: rivière Rouge du Nord) to differentiate it from the Red River in...
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    1851) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer, fur trader and Governor of the Red River Colony from 1821 to 1834. Born in Scotland, McKenzie emigrated to Canada about...
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    "Red River Colony". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 9, 2019. Henderson, Anne Matheson (1968). "The Lord Selkirk Settlement at Red River"...
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    Proclamation, which forbade anyone from exporting pemmican from the Red River Colony. The capture and destruction of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar...
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    area near the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers near what would later become the Red River Colony and eventually modern Winnipeg, Manitoba. They...
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    conflict, known as the Red River Rebellion, between the federal government and the people (particularly Métis) of the Red River Colony. The resolution of...
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  • federal government and the people (particularly the Métis) of the Red River Colony, which began in 1870 with Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land. Many...
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  • The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western...
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    centre for the Red River Colony. From 1869 to 1870, the fort was briefly occupied by Louis Riel and his Métis followers during the Red River Rebellion. The...
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  • Party was a group founded by John Christian Schultz in 1869, in the Red River Colony (which later became the Canadian province of Manitoba). It was not...
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    settle the Red River region, planning to bring Scottish settlers to the Forks and to establish the Red River Colony (also known as the Red River Settlement)...
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    Canada. The Lagimodières were also, in 1812, the first settlers at the Red River Colony near modern Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is portrayed by John Juliani in...
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    Settlement (Red River Colony) fort and the first fort associated with the Hudson's Bay Company near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in today's...
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    mayor. During this period, his business interests extended into the Red River Colony, which he was committed to developing. In 1856, he opened a store at...
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    Lord Selkirk for his plans on settling in the interior of Canada. The Red River Colony or the Selkirk Settlement included portions of present-day southern...
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    Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (category Red River Colony)
    philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony. He was born at St Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, the seventh...
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    formal justice throughout Rupert's Land and established a court at the Red River Colony, in the "District of Assiniboia", south of Lake Winnipeg. A Recorder...
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  • Territories The District of Assiniboia was a name used to describe the Red River Colony, mainly for official purposes, between 1812 and 1869. Nominally the...
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