The Manitoba Act provided for substantial grants of land to the Metis inhabitants of the new province. Until recently, most historians viewed the intentions of the federal government in relation to these land grants in a favourable Light, blaming overwhelming numbers of Ontario immigrants and the character of the Metis themselves for the rapid transfer of the lands out of Metis hands. This consensus came under attack during the 1970s and 1980s, as new research shifted the blame to the government's administration of the land grants. This study of the land grants received and lots sold by a sample of Metis families in Manitoba challenges both earlier arguments. The authors conclude that the Metis had little difficulty receiving title to the l...
Studies of the Red River Settlement, the Metis people, and their buffalo hunt are so numerous that h...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
My research will seek to affirm the factors that influenced the pattern and pace of populating a reg...
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Dominion of Canada allotted over 1,400,000 acres ...
In the 1930s, the Métis Association of Alberta (MAA) successfully lobbied the provincial government ...
This thesis questions the adequacy of the Department of the Interior's response to the land claims o...
Prairie agricultural settlement in the era of the National Policy has often been viewed as an organi...
Metis ideas of territory are complex, varied and often not well understood. Metis perspectives on i...
The 1960s was a significant decade in the history of the relationship between the government of Sask...
In mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada, installment contracts or "bargain and sale agreements" were ...
This informative collection of eight essays by different authors plus an introduction by the editor ...
With the emergence of native issues such as land claims and self-government in the Canadian constitu...
Between 1975 and 1982 a concerted effort was wade to fulfil treaty Indian land entitlements in Saska...
The relationship between ethnicity and land ownership in rural Canada is explored here using the new...
Throughout the history of the North West, Metis people frequently used their knowledge of European, ...
Studies of the Red River Settlement, the Metis people, and their buffalo hunt are so numerous that h...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
My research will seek to affirm the factors that influenced the pattern and pace of populating a reg...
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Dominion of Canada allotted over 1,400,000 acres ...
In the 1930s, the Métis Association of Alberta (MAA) successfully lobbied the provincial government ...
This thesis questions the adequacy of the Department of the Interior's response to the land claims o...
Prairie agricultural settlement in the era of the National Policy has often been viewed as an organi...
Metis ideas of territory are complex, varied and often not well understood. Metis perspectives on i...
The 1960s was a significant decade in the history of the relationship between the government of Sask...
In mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada, installment contracts or "bargain and sale agreements" were ...
This informative collection of eight essays by different authors plus an introduction by the editor ...
With the emergence of native issues such as land claims and self-government in the Canadian constitu...
Between 1975 and 1982 a concerted effort was wade to fulfil treaty Indian land entitlements in Saska...
The relationship between ethnicity and land ownership in rural Canada is explored here using the new...
Throughout the history of the North West, Metis people frequently used their knowledge of European, ...
Studies of the Red River Settlement, the Metis people, and their buffalo hunt are so numerous that h...
This paper examines the relationship between the Government of Canada and First Nations during and a...
My research will seek to affirm the factors that influenced the pattern and pace of populating a reg...