Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion, Bob Beal and Rod Macleod.Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1984. 384 pp., maps, ill. ISBN 0-88830-262-2. Prairie Fire was written by Dr. Rod Macleod, a professor of Canadian History at the University of Alberta and Bob Beal, a freelance journalist. The claims made for the book are broad indeed.
In recognition of their fine work during the rebellion, the Regiment was awarded its first battle honour “NORTH WEST CANADA 1885” in 1895. After the Battle The lessons from the North West Rebellion were fairly obvious: militia training was inadequate as was the military supply, transport, and stores system. Things wouldn’t really begin to.
In examining the aftermath of the North-West Resistance of 1885, consequences from the conflict can best be grouped into two broad categories: consequences for those who played a major role in the Resistance (i.e.: Louis Riel, Big Bear); and consequences of a more thematic nature (i.e.: impacts on French-English relations in Canada, race.
The Minister is of the opinion that all members of the North West Mounted Police who were on service in the North West Territories during the period of the Rebellion of 1885 should be dealt with, so far as regards the medals, in the same manner as members of the Active Militia, he the Minister, therefore recommends that the Order-In-Council of.
Before the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, the Natives on the central plains of North America underwent major changes. The first major change came when the White people brought the horse to North America and traded it to the Natives. After this, for over a hundred years the Natives enjoyed a good lifestyle, and starvation was seldom a problem.
Posts about 1885 written by Sorouja Moll. The Canadian “War Measures Act,” passed in 1914, is a sovereign order that decides the necessity of a state of emergency to authorize the government to suspend all civil liberties and by-pass parliamentary debate.The order, which defines sovereignty as well as “the enemy,” creates a no-man’s land or a state of exception where all laws, as.
Two Nation Theory The two-nation theory in its simplest way means that cultural, political, religious, economic and social dissimilarities between the two major communities, Hindus and Muslims of the Sub-continent. These differences of outlook, in fact, were greatly instrumental in giving rise to two distinct political ideologies which were.
The journey to residential schools was often a long one, particularly for Aboriginal children who came from communities that were thousands of miles away. Some could walk to the schools, but many others arrived by wagon, train, boat, or, in later years, by bus. When they remember that long journey, many Survivors recall feeling like they were.