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    The Pemmican War was a series of violent confrontations between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC) in the Canadas from 1812...
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    Pemmican (also pemican in older sources) is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries. A calorie-rich food, it can be used as a key...
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    became known as the Pemmican Proclamation. The proclamation was issued in attempt to stop the Métis people from exporting pemmican out of the Red River...
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  • Pemmican Wars is a 2017 historical fiction graphic novel written by Katherena Vermette and illustrated by Scott B. Henderson and Donovan Yaciuk. Pemmican...
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    The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those...
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    Gibraltar. In January 1814, the colony issued the Pemmican Proclamation, banning the export of pemmican and other provisions for a year to secure its growth...
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    Battle of Seven Oaks (category Pemmican War)
    Massacre and the Seven Oaks Incident—was a violent confrontation of the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and the North West Company (NWC)...
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    Cuthbert Grant (category Pemmican War)
    was a Métis leader of the early 19th century who participated in the Pemmican War as an employee of the North West Company. Cuthbert Grant was born in...
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    Fort William, Ontario (category Pemmican War)
    Fort William was a city in Ontario, Canada, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the...
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    King William's War (also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American...
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    The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States...
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    The Beaver Wars (Mohawk: Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises), were...
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    Hudson's Bay Company (category Pemmican War)
    was the main rival in the fur trade. The competition led to the small Pemmican War in 1816. The Battle of Seven Oaks on 19 June 1816 was the climax of the...
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    North American fur trade (category Pemmican War)
    which was the driving force of the winter hunt. In addition, they sold pemmican at the posts. Unlike Indians, the Métis were dependent on the fur trade...
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    Métis (category Pemmican War)
    netted webbing for snowshoes, skinned animals and dried their meat for pemmican, split and dried fish, snared rabbits and partridges, and helped to manufacture...
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    Voyageurs (category Pemmican War)
    large-scale production of pemmican. The Hudson Bay trade was diverted southwest to the edge of the prairie, where pemmican was picked up to feed the voyageurs...
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    of Canada in World War I began on August 4, 1914, when the United Kingdom entered the First World War (1914–1918) by declaring war on Germany. The British...
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    King George's War (1744–1748) is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)...
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    The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually...
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  • War. However, it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords. Privately, some Canadians contributed to the war...
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  • At the time of the American Civil War (1861–1865), Canada did not yet exist as a federated nation. Instead, British North America consisted of the Province...
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    during both world wars. Conscription into any armed service has not been practiced in Canada since the end of the Second World War in 1945. Compulsory...
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    Miles Macdonell (category Pemmican War)
    with it. Nowhere is this better shown than in the decision to issue the Pemmican Proclamation. It was promulgated at a time when the colony was too weak...
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    During the Cold War, Canada was one of the western powers playing a central role in the major alliances. It was an ally of the United States, but there...
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  • The French and Indian Wars were a series of conflicts that occurred in North America between 1688 and 1763, some of which indirectly were related to the...
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    Red River Colony (category Pemmican War)
    conflict with the North West Company that would not end until 1821. The Pemmican War that was initiated by Macdonell's proclamation was only the tail end...
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  • The Canadian Forces were involved in the 1950–1953 Korean War and its aftermath. More than 30,000 Canadians participated on the side of the United Nations...
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    Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain...
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  • provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
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    North West Company (category Pemmican War)
    of events that would lead to the demise of the North West Company. The Pemmican Proclamation, the ensuing Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816, and its violence...
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