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1611 - Everything Changes

  • In 1611 man Named Henry Hudson first to discover area known as Hudson's Bay
  • Discovers more of Canada than previously thought.

Europeans begin to explore Manitoba

First Nations way of life

  • Sir Thomas Button in 1612, who named the Nelson River.
  • Henry Kelsey was the first European to travel from Hudson Bay to the prairies, reporting the bison and grizzly bears that he saw.

The History of Manitoba

Ojibwa

Assiniboine

  • Ojibwa people subsisted by hunting, fishing and gathering. They resided largely in dome-shaped birchbark dwellings known as wigwams, and often made use of tipi-shaped dwellings.
  • Travelled by birchbark canoe in warm weather and snowshoes in winter
  • traditional lands are in the Plains
  • participants in the buffalo hunt and the fur trade
  • Assiniboine people in forests and parklands also hunted big game (deer, elk and moose) and snared small furbearers for food and tanned hides

Hudson's Bay Company

Europeans Begin fur trading with First Nations

Manitoba gets bigger

Flin Flon

More Rebellion

  • Winnipeg officially a city in 1873.
  • Railroad brings lots of people for cheap farmland.
  • Louis Riel returns. John A McDonald order him put to death.
  • Hero to some. Not to others
  • Town of Flin Flon founded in 1927 by Hudbay.

Hudson's Bay Company

How did people get here in the first place?

  • The First peoples came to Manitoba around 10, 000 years ago.
  • They came over the land bridge and spread out over time
  • Over time Hudson's Bay sends more and more fur traders.
  • Traded european Items (Pots, knives, weapons to animal furs to take back to Europe

The First peoples

  • Different tribes of Aboriginal peoples lived off the land for thousands of years.
  • Included Ojibwa, Cree, Dene, Sioux, Mandan, and Assiniboine.

More Recent

2011 Jets return to Winnipeg

2014 Mr . Bolton moves to Manitoba

Recent important Events in Manitoba

General Strike of 1919. 30,000 works

Red River Flood of 1950 = 500 million dollars damage

Rebellion Continued

Rupert's Land

  • Louis Riel kills Thomas Scott.
  • Canada sends in army.
  • Riel flees to U.S.A
  • From 1670 to 1870 area around Manitoba known as Rupert's land.
  • Owned by Hudson's Bay company.

1950 Flood

Red River Rebellion

Manitoba becomes province in 1870

Battle of Seven Oaks

Lot's of Europeans begin to come to Manitoba

  • Occurred in 1869 when Canada was trying to create Manitoba.
  • Metis people lead by Louis Riel.
  • Did not like land being given to Canada. Came in and set up own government.

Red River

Manitoba is a Cree word meaning "Great Spirit"

  • In 1812 first major city created near what is now Winnipeg. (Selkirk Settlement)

Expanded in 1912

  • First Nations not happy about this!
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