Description: Correspondence discussing the Riel Rebellions, two uprisings led by Louis Riel in what are now Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Riel sought to preserve Métis rights and culture as their homelands in the Northwest came progressively under the control of the Canadian government.
Note:
The Edgar Dewdney collection consists of correspondence, reports, appointments, speeches, diaries and news clippings pertaining to the Dewdney Trail and his early career in British Columbia as Lieutenant-Governor, Minister of the Interior and Indian Commissioner of the North-West Territories. The collection also includes Blanche Dewdney's personal correspondence. AMDigital Reference: Series 20.
Original Version:
Reproduction of: Riel Rebellion - telegrams, 18-22 March 1885 18-22 Mar 1885.
