The Red River Settlement was founded by the Fifth Earl of Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, In the year 1812. He called his settlement Aissinidoia. Aissinidoia was a close knit community whose economy was built around the Hudson Bay Company. The settlement was split into two major groupings: The French speaking and predominate Roman Catholic Metis and the English speaking and predominate Protestant “country born”. The Earl of Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, bought the Hudson Bay Company in 1811 and was able
1) How and why did the Northwest Co. come into existence? Where was it based out of? Who operated it? How did they compete with the HBC? The Northwest company started because some people in Canada had been uncomfortable with how strong a hold the Hudson’s Bay Company had on the fur-trading business, so the company had been started to oppose that hold and hopefully loosen it. It was based out of Montreal, just a few Montreal merchants in a loose association. A few years later it became a more permanent
history has had a rich tradition of witnessing emigrates arriving to Canada to explore a new way of life while maintaining their cultural identity. Currently the mass emigration of Syrian Muslims continues this legacy that was started in the late 18th century. One of the greatest mass emigrations that Canada witnessed was during the late 18th century, when Catholic Scottish Highlanders emigrated to Prince Edward Island. These Scottish Highlanders left their ancestral highland homes out of desperation