The Struggle for Responsible Government in the North-West Territories, 1870-97

In the extreme northernmost part of Canada, lying between North Latitudes 56° and 68° and West Longitudes 88° and 112°, is an area of about 400,000 square miles, which had up to the past two years remained geologically unexplored.In 1892 the Director of the Geological Survey of Canada sent the writer to explore the country north of Churchill River, and south-west of Lake Athabasca;in1893 the exploration was continued northward, along the north shore of Athabasca Lake

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Publications of the Governments of the North-West Territories, 1876–1905, and of the Province of Saskatchewan, 1905–1952. Compiled by Christine MacDonald. (Regina, Sask.: Legislative Library. 1953. Pp. 110. Price: $1.75.)

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055400292526 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 1186-1186

Author(s):

J.B.C.

Keyword(s):

North West ◽

The North ◽

North West Territories

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Stipendiary Magistrates and Supreme Court of the North-West Territories, 1876-1907

Alberta Law Review ◽

10.29173/alr1653 ◽

1969 ◽

pp. 245 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

W. F. Bowker

Keyword(s):

Supreme Court ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

North West Territories

The author discusses the office and role of the early Stipendiary Magistrates in the North- West Territories and their effect on establishing judicial institutions.

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The Numbered Treaties: Similar Means to Dichotomous Ends

Past Imperfect ◽

10.21971/p73s39 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Derek Whitehouse

Keyword(s):

Recent Trend ◽

Active Role ◽

Indian Policy ◽

Aboriginal Peoples ◽

Cultural Survival ◽

North West ◽

The North ◽

Treaty Negotiations ◽

The Government ◽

North West Territories

This essay reflects the recent trend among historians to assign an active role to both the Indians of the North-West Territories and the government during the Numbered Treaty process. The aboriginal peoples and the Canadian government entered the Treaty negotiations hoping to achieve dichotomous ends. Concerned over white settlement and diminishing buffalo herds, the Indians sought to use the concessions granted them under the Treaties to ensure their cultural survival. The government, on the other hand, considered the Numbered Treaties a means of achieving the goal of their Indian policy, namely bringing about the assimilation of the Indian into Euro-Canadian society.

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