1870-Manitoba Enters Confederation

The Manitoba List of Rights is here, which Riel and his followers created and became the Manitoba Constitution upon entering Canada.  More detail on Manitoba entering Canada is here.  Here is some information about the effects on the Metis of Confederation. 

From reading the Manitoba List of Rights (first link above, and remember our class discussion), which became our Constitution, answer the following questions.

1. Laws must be printed in what languages? (hint, check 13.)

2. From reading 19, could 1st Nation people vote?  Could someone newly arrived from the Ukraine vote? Could Women vote? 

3. Number 31 is the promise of 1.4 million acres to the Metis. It was to be handed out to Metis families. Was this promised fulfilled? Read here for more details. 

4. Though upon its entry, the Manitoba Constitution was clear on the protection of French and English rights and the land rights of the Metis. What happened in the following years?

A Standoff

Hanging of Riel

Wolseley portaging Kakabeka falls.

Trench Warfare

After our class talk, try this game out about the conditions of the First World War

Remembrance Day this Week

Remenbrance day 2018 from St. James-Assiniboia School Division

If finished your Manitoba Note Frame and the Halloween questions

Remembrance Day is coming up, and a hundred years ago Canada was a leading participant in what is called The 100 Days Offensive.   Try your hand at this activity from Canada's War Museum. and

Some questions from the above adventure, the answers can be found in the links given in the game.
What is a Platoon?
What is a Duck Board used for?
Where is No Man's Land?
What was a Trench?
Do you have Webbing like a soldier in the First World War?
What does it mean to Stand Down?

Halloween

Halloween is coming up. Here is some of the history of Halloween in Canada and below you will find some video clips about Halloween.  Blog your answers where it says comments below

1. Many countries don't have trick or treating. They do things like wash tombstones. What connection does Halloween have with the Christian Church?
2.Blog an interesting fact that you found
3.Blog another interesting fact
4.Blog something about how Halloween was celebrated in the past.
5. Trick or Treating was something that became widespread in Canada starting in the 1950s, which isn't that long ago. How do you think Halloween will be celebrated 50 years from now in Canada? Give a reason for your prediction.

Manitoba Enters Confederation, or does it?

Manitoba

Entered Confederation: 1870

Before 1870, the Hudson's Bay Company owned a huge area in the western part of what is now Canada. This area contained Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory. The people of the Red River Colony in the southern part of Rupert's Land were Métis. They wanted their own government for one main reason: To protect their righrts.

• When the Canadian government bought Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, see map from earlier post, people were already living on the land. Some had been on the land for generations and thousands of years. 
• The Canadian government was interested in changing how the land was used and changing the people who lived on the land

Winnipeg in 1871

To protect their rights, the Metis chose a man named Louis  Riel to lead them. He set up a government in the Red River Settlement and from there prevented the Government of Canada from taking control of the new Territories that they had just bought. Riel wanted to make sure that the Métis would be consulted. Riel sent people to Ottawa to make an agreement with the Canadian government. They decided to make Manitoba a province.

"We are rebelling against the Company which wants to sell us, and Canada which wants to buy us. We are not rebelling against the British government."

Below are the people that were counted that lived in what is now Winnipeg and the surrounding area (Red River Settlement) 

sources-https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/confederation/kids/023002-2050-e.html