CanText - 1868-1884

Red River and the West

• July 31, 1868 - Rupert's Land Act, 1868
• Loi de 1868 sur la terre de Rupert
• June 22, 1869 - An Act for the Temporary Government of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territories when united with Canada
• December 1, 1869 - The Métis Bill of Rights
• December 8, 1869 - Declaration of the People of Rupert's Land and the North West
• 1870 Order of Her Majesty In Council Admitting Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory into the Union
• 1869 - Mercer Adam, Abolition of the Fur Companies
• January 15, 1870 - Canadian Illlustrated News on The Red River Difficulty & Louis Riel
• February 3, 1870 - Métis List of Rights
• May 12, 1870 - The Manitoba Act, 1870
• June 23, 1870 - Admission of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory
• July 1, 1870 - Dr. Lynch on the Red River Amnesty
• 1871 - James Hargrave, Description of the York Boat
• 1874 - The Diary of Henry Julien
• 1889 Hornaday, Extermination of the American Bison

The Western Treaties

• 1871 - Treaties One and Two
• 1871 - Treaty Three
• 1874 - Treaty Four
• 1875 - Treaty Five
• 1876 - Treaty Six & Adhesions
• 1877 - Treaty Seven
• 1880 - Alexander Morris, The Treaties of Canada with The Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories
• 1899 - Treaty Eight

BC Enters Confederation

• 1870 - John Helmcken, Diary of the BC Confederation Negotiations
• 1871 - Constitution Act, 1871, respecting the establishment of Provinces
• 1871 - British Columbia Terms of Union

Boundaries and Identities

• 1873 - PEI Terms of Union
• 1878 - John A. Macdonald, The National Policy
• July 13, 1875 - Alexander Mackenzie, Speech on Canada in Dundee, Scotland
• 1877 - Wilfrid Laurier on the French Canadians
• June 24, 1880 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Le chant national (O Canada).
• 1880 - Adjacent Territories Order

Immigration

• 1874 - Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, De la Colonisation
• 1875 - The Gimli Saga - The Emigration from Iceland to North America
• 1894 Opinion on German Immigration

Canadian Pacific

• 1878 First Winnipeg Train
• 1880 - The Canadian Pacific Railway Charter
• 1880 Charte du chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique
• January 17, 1881 - John A. Macdonald, Speech on the CPR
• 1883 - Toronto Globe on the CPR

Miscellaneous

• March 4, 1875 - Montreal Gazette Report on the World's First Indoor Hockey Game.
• May 30, 1881 - John A. Macdonald, Election Speech to the Workingmen of Toronto
• 1884 Simon Newcomb, The Extent of the Universe