Lord Selkirk's Scottish and Irish farming colony at the Forks of the Red and Assiniboine, planted in 1812 amid the buffalo plains and the fur trade.
Its Metis-led resistance under Louis Riel in 1869-70 forced terms; the settled core entered Confederation as the postage-stamp Province of Manitoba in 1870.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Red River Colony (Assiniboia) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1812 · 1836 · 1870.
A concise, authoritative survey of Canadian history covering the Loyalist Maritime colonies and the Red River settlement that would join Confederation.
Bown's acclaimed narrative history of the Hudson's Bay Company empire that governed Rupert's Land and planted the Red River Colony.
Major Canadian historical novel dramatizing Louis Riel and the Metis of Red River through the 1869-70 Resistance that ended the Red River Colony's isolation and forced Confederation's hand — directly set in the colony at its climactic moment.