"The road became a symbol for the Métis of what could be expected from Canada: corruption, violence and land swindles, all accompanied by a racist, anti-French, anti-Catholic, anti-Métis agenda. The first view of what it would mean to become Canadian was bleak. It was slightly less offensive for the English Métis. Though they were held to be inferior because of their Indigenous blood, they were more acceptable because they were Protestant, more invested in agriculture and spoke English. The French Métis had three strikes against them. They were "too Indian, too Catholic and too French”.”
Jean Teillet
Source: Teillet, J. (2019). The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People (p. 167). Published by Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Reference to Morrison, J. (1996) The Robinson Treaties of 1850: A Case Study, 7, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Treaty and Land Research Section, 1996. Retrieved June 22, 2020 from https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443450140/the-north-west-is-our-mother/
“When Schultz and Snow bargained in liquor with the Métis for title to the region around Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes, the Métis saw in the transaction a forecast of their future. They realized that this was how the Canadians would come to take their farms from them so they seized Snow and took him to Fort Garry where they demanded that he be expelled, but Governor MacTavish merely fined him for selling liquor to Indians.
"So Snow, as McDougall’s agent and the tool of Schultz, brought the Dawson route into the political and social turmoil of Red River’s crisis of 1869-70. The Métis resistance delayed Canada’s taking over the country in the summer of 1870. In May of that year, the government dispatched Colonel Wolseley’s expedition west to ensure a peaceful transfer.”
Don Aiken
Source: Aiken, D. (1988, May 6). Heritage Highlights. Winnipeg Real Estate News. Also in Feilberg, E., & Annell, L. (1989). Pioneer History of Glenn, East Braintree & McMunn (P.18-25). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10719/2239350
“He has scrupled at nothing to carry the point. He is the symbol of brute force, and his appointment [to the Senate or other office] would be looked upon as an approval on the part of the Dominion government of violence and disorder. He has encouraged the disposition to rowdyism among the soldiers – and he or his immediate friends have been prominent in every trouble we have had.”
Governor Adams Archibald regarding Christian Schultz
in a letter written to Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald,
March, 1871
Source: Lovell C. (2003). SCHULTZ, Sir JOHN CHRISTIAN. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved June 20, 2020 from http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/schultz_john_christian_12E.html
John Christian Schultz, (Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba) b. Jan. 1, 1840 - d. Mar. 13, 1896. John Christian Schultz, (Lieutenant Governor of M... (item 1) (JPG); MIKAN no. 3466197. Retrieved July 13, 2020 from https://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?...
Provisional Government of the future Province of Manitoba with leader Louis Riel in the centre (1870), including local resident Paul Proulx (1837-1918) and Charles Nolin of Sainte-Anne, among others. Louis Riel and his Councillors (circa 1869) Source: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, A13-5.
The execution of Thomas Scott, LAC, C-118610, 1870. Retrieved June 30, 2020 from http://www.begbiecontestsociety.org/RIEL%20and%20MANITOBA.htm
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