Title: Ten Years in Winnipeg. A narration of the principal events in the history of the city of Winnipeg from ... 1870 to ... 1879 inclusive.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual framework of this collection highlights 16th century English, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Begg, Alexander; Nursey, Walter R.; 1879. 226 p.; 8 . 10409.e.11.

Title: History of the North-West.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Begg, Alexander; 1894, 95. 3 vol.; 8 . 9555.ee.11.

Title: History of the North-West.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Begg, Alexander; 1894, 95. 3 vol.; 8 . 9555.ee.11.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The original Indian tribes of the North West: a description of the several great bands?The Swampy Settlement?The conduct of the Fur Companies towards the Indians?The good influence of the Hudson's Bay Co. over the red men. We will now retrace our steps once more in order to give some particulars concerning the Indian tribes of the North West. The original bands living to the East of the Eocky Mountains as far as Lake Winnipeg and Eed Eiver, within British territory, were as follows: Cree, Shonshwap, Yellow Knife, Assiniboine, Mountain, Dog Rib, Blood, Saulteaux, Strong Bow, Blackfeet, Takall, Inland, Beaver, Nahany, Copper, Carrier, Chipewan, Swampy. The population of the above in 1855 was, as near as it could be estimated, 47,000 souls, and from Lake Winnipeg and Eed Eiver to the north of Lake Superior, and along the St. Lawrence clear to the coast of Labrador, the number of Indians was calculated at over 17,000, so that the total Indian population in British North America east of the Rocky Mountains may be reckoned at 64,000 in the year 1855. Many of the above bands, however, have become extinct since then, or they have become merged into other tribes. The Saulteaux and Swampies were looked upon as intruders by the other Indians, the former having been brought into the country from the older provinces of Canada by the North West Company, and the latter having wandered into the settlement from the vicinity of Hudson's Bay. The earliest date that any Saulteaux found his wayinto the neighbourhood of the Eed Eiver country-was about the year 1780. The Swampies were first a docile, peaceful people, and were employed a great deal by the Scotch settlers to assist in farming operations and othe r work about the settlement. In 1832 Eev. Mr. Cochr...

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