Pemmican War
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The Pemmican War was a series of interactions through violent confrontations between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company in the Canadas from 1812 to 1821. It started after the establis
An illustration of the Battle of Seven Oaks
Selkirk's land grant (Assiniboia)
Metis drying buffalo meat, White Horse Plains (St. Francois Xavier), Red River, Canada (Painted in 1899 by William Armstrong (1822–1914))
Landing of the Selkirk Settlers, Red River, 1812 by J. E. Schaflein (HBC's 1924 calendar illustration)
Battle of Seven Oaks
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The Battle of Seven Oaks—also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre and the Seven Oaks Incident—was a violent confrontation of the Pemmican War between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company w
Pemmican War
…with his company's complaints through official channels. Special Commissioner Coltman, the government official later charged with investigating the Battle of Seven Oaks, suggested that Gov. Macdonell waited for an opportune moment to release his proclamation, the idea of which he had brought up some time earlier, and…
In 1816, Cuthbert Grant led a band of North West Company employees to seize a stolen supply of pemmican from the Hudson's Bay Company
An obelisk monument to commemorate the battle was erected in 1891 at West Kildonan, Winnipeg.