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Petroforms at Whiteshell Provincial Park.The site is hypothesized to be a First Nations gathering place or trading centre.. The geographical area of modern-day Manitoba was inhabited by the First Nations people shortly after the last ice age glaciers retreated in the south-west approximately 10,000 years ago; the first exposed land was the Turtle Mountain area. [1]
The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) of land in British North America.
In 1691 Henry Kelsey reached the upper Assiniboine from Hudson Bay. In 1731, La Vérendrye began pushing French trade and exploration west from Lake Superior. He built Fort Maurepas (Canada) at the mouth of the Red River (1734), Fort Rouge (1738) at Winnipeg and Fort La Reine (1738) on the Assiniboine south of Lake Manitoba.
Lord Selkirk signed a treaty with Chief Peguis that eventually became St. Peter’s Reserve in 1817, but Chief Peguis’s people would eventually lose the land and forced to move to the current Peguis First Nation by 1930s [4] when Selkirk’s colony became the province of Manitoba in 1870, the area then became St. Peter’s Settlement and eventually merge into Selkirk, Manitoba.
Fort Gibraltar was founded in 1809 by Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield [1] of the North West Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada.It was located at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in or near the area now known as The Forks in the city of Winnipeg.
"The iniquity of the [slave] trade is now publickly acknowledged by all parties;" it requires "a speedy and vigorous attempt to indemnify" them [2]. In addition to economic penalties, Parliament has made slave traders subject to 5 years' imprisonment at hard labour or 14 years' transportation [3]
March 21, 1881 — Manitoba Boundaries Act passed in Parliament, providing for an extension of the province's borders. December 11, 1883 — Standard time adopted throughout the province. August 11, 1884 — Boundary dispute between Manitoba and Ontario settled by a decision of the judicial committee of the Privy Council.
On 14 July 1811, Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin. [19] Before returning upriver and across the mountains, Thompson hired Naukane, a Native Hawaiian Takane labourer brought to Fort Astoria by the Pacific Fur Company's ship ...