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I N T R O D U C T I O N
The Important events of A. D. 1S57, and the negotiations which led
to the Transfer of the Hudson's Bay Territories— Former
Treaties and the Treaty Commission of 1899.
T H E terms upon which Canada obtained her great possessions
i n the West are generally known, and much has been
written regarding the tentative steps by which, after long
years of waiting, she acquired theni. The distinctively prairie,
or southern, portion of the country and its outliers, constituting
" Prince Rupert's Land,'' had been claimed by the
Hudson's Bay Company since Hay, ltSTO, as an absolute
freehold. This and the North- West Territories, in which,
under terminable lease from the Crown, the Company exercised,
as i n B r i t i s h Columbia, exclusive rights to trade only,
were, as the reader knows, transferred to Canada by Imperial
sanction at the same time. It is not the author's intention,
therefore, to cumber his pages w i t h trite or irrelevant matter;
yet certain transactions which preceded this primordial and
greatest treaty of all not unfittingly may l> c set forth, though
i n the briefest way, as a pardonable introduction to the
following record.
The year 1857 was an eventful one i n the annals of " The
North- West,'' the name by which the Territories were generally
known i n Canada.* In that year two expeditions
• An Important event In Red River was begot of the stirring Incidents
of this year, namely, the starting at Fort Garry, In December.
1859, by two gentlemen from Canada. Messrs. Buckingham and
Caldwell, of the first newspaper printed in British territory east
of British Columbia and west of Lake Superior. It was called the
Xor'- Wester, but, having few advertisements, and only a limited
circulation, the originators sold out to Dr. ( afterwards Sir John)
Schultz, who, at his own expense, published the paper, almost down
to the Transfer, as an advocate of Canadian annexation, immigration
and development.
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| OCR | I N T R O D U C T I O N The Important events of A. D. 1S57, and the negotiations which led to the Transfer of the Hudson's Bay Territories— Former Treaties and the Treaty Commission of 1899. T H E terms upon which Canada obtained her great possessions i n the West are generally known, and much has been written regarding the tentative steps by which, after long years of waiting, she acquired theni. The distinctively prairie, or southern, portion of the country and its outliers, constituting " Prince Rupert's Land,'' had been claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company since Hay, ltSTO, as an absolute freehold. This and the North- West Territories, in which, under terminable lease from the Crown, the Company exercised, as i n B r i t i s h Columbia, exclusive rights to trade only, were, as the reader knows, transferred to Canada by Imperial sanction at the same time. It is not the author's intention, therefore, to cumber his pages w i t h trite or irrelevant matter; yet certain transactions which preceded this primordial and greatest treaty of all not unfittingly may l> c set forth, though i n the briefest way, as a pardonable introduction to the following record. The year 1857 was an eventful one i n the annals of " The North- West,'' the name by which the Territories were generally known i n Canada.* In that year two expeditions • An Important event In Red River was begot of the stirring Incidents of this year, namely, the starting at Fort Garry, In December. 1859, by two gentlemen from Canada. Messrs. Buckingham and Caldwell, of the first newspaper printed in British territory east of British Columbia and west of Lake Superior. It was called the Xor'- Wester, but, having few advertisements, and only a limited circulation, the originators sold out to Dr. ( afterwards Sir John) Schultz, who, at his own expense, published the paper, almost down to the Transfer, as an advocate of Canadian annexation, immigration and development. |
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