. Canada; a descriptive text-book . 0 people,10,000 of whom were half-breeds of either French or Scotch parentage. In 1870, the Dominion of Canada bought out for a large sum the claimof the Hudsons Bay Company to the whole territory, leaving them theirrights of trading. For various reasons the half-breeds objected to thetransfer, and, led by one of their number, named Louis Riel, set up agovernment of their own. A settler who refused to recognize the 84 CANADA. authority of this new government was put to death. As sunn ae oewflof this was received, a military expedition was organized in the ea
. Canada; a descriptive text-book . 0 people,10,000 of whom were half-breeds of either French or Scotch parentage. In 1870, the Dominion of Canada bought out for a large sum the claimof the Hudsons Bay Company to the whole territory, leaving them theirrights of trading. For various reasons the half-breeds objected to thetransfer, and, led by one of their number, named Louis Riel, set up agovernment of their own. A settler who refused to recognize the 84 CANADA. authority of this new government was put to death. As sunn ae oewflof this was received, a military expedition was organized in the east tocrush the rising. At its head was the present commander-in-chief of theBritish forces, then Colonel Garnet Wolsley. After a long and toilsomemarch, the little army reached Fort Garry only to find that the rebels haddispersed, the leaders having fled over the border into the United of the volunteer force settled in the count ry, which was immediatelyconstituted as the Province of Manitoba by the Dominion The new province prospered, and the growth of the capital, the nameof which had been changed from Fort Garry to Winnipeg, Mas remark-able. In 1885 Riel came back from the United States and again incitedthe half-breeds and Indians to rebel. The militia of Canada, underGeneral Middleton, suppressed the rising after several lives had beenlost, and later on Riel and the other ring-leaders were hanged. Sincethen the history of the province and of the territories farther west hasbeen one of peace and steady progress. The most important event wasthe opening of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886. The term. Western Canada, is a wide one including, as it <\m-*. theprovinces of British Columbia and Manitoba, as well as the variousterritories. The present chapter deals mainly with Manitoba and the CANADA. 85 districts of Assiniboia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Athabasca, for. withthe exception of British Columbia, the rest of the vast territory is atpresent
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