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RED RIVER SETTLEMENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIVER See also:SETTLEMENT , a Scottish See also:colony founded in 1811 near the See also:present See also:city of See also:Winnipeg by a philanthropic Scottish nobleman, See also:Lord See also:Selkirk, who at that See also:time controlled the See also:Hudson's See also:Bay See also:Company. Quarrels soon arose with the See also:French and See also:half-breed employes of the See also:North-See also:West See also:Fur Company, and were fostered by its officials. On See also:June 19, 1816, in a fight between the rivals, See also:Governor Semple of the Hudson's Bay Company and twenty of his twenty-seven attendants were killed, an affair known as the See also:Battle of Seven Oaks. New settlers were sent by Selkirk, and founded the See also:village of Kildonan, now See also:part of Winnipeg. In 1821 the See also:rival companies See also:united, and in 1836 repurchased from Selkirk's heirs all rights to the territory. In 1821 and in 1835 two forts, known as See also:Lower and Upper Fort Garry, were built to command the junction of the Red and Assiniboine See also:rivers, and around them See also:grew up a mixed See also:population of Scots, French and See also:Indians. The See also:purchase in 1869 of the territorial rights of the Company by the Dominion of See also:Canada led to a See also:rebellion, and the setting up of a provisional See also:government under See also:Louis See also:Riel, which was dispersed by a force of See also:British regulars under See also:Colonel (later Lord) See also:Wolseley. See CANADA (See also:History); also See also:George See also:Bryce, Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company (1900).

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