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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]
New Englander describes her Protestant friend "taking the veil" after 3 years' study in Montreal's Hôtel-Dieu "or Convent of Black Nuns" [42] Long-established Quebec City school teaches boys reading, writing and arithmetic plus everything from logarithms to architecture to history to Greek [43]
April 28, 1826 — Ice on the Red River begins breaking up, marking the start of the greatest recorded flood in Manitoba history. 1834 – 33 years after selling Assiniboia to Lord Selkirk, Hudson's Bay Company re-purchases the vast territory from the Selkirk estate. 1835 — First meeting of reorganized Council of Assiniboia.
1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1811th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 811th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1810s decade. As of the start of 1811, the ...
Journeys: A History of Canada. Oxford, UK: Nelson Education. ISBN 978-0-17-644244-6. Hayes, Derek (2002). Historical Atlas of Canada. Douglas and McIntyre. ISBN 1-55054-918-9. Kingsford, William (1890). The History of Canada: Canada under French rule. Harvard University. Morton, Desmond (2001). A short history of Canada (5th ed.). Marks and ...
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.
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March 1, 1811 – Citadel Massacre: Egyptian ruler Mohammed Ali kills the last Mamluk leaders. 1813: Following the death of his father Wossen Seged, Sahle Selassie arrives at the capital Qundi before his other brothers, and is made Méridazmach of Shewa. 1816: Banjul, capital of the Gambia, is founded as a trading post, and named Bathurst.