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Northwest and Pacific Coast? SETTLING OF THE RED RIVER AREA WHAT CHANGED IN THE By the mid-1800s, the Red River Settlement in Rupert’s Land was made up of people of different cultures. They included Métis, some Scottish immigrants, and retired Hudson’s Bay Company workers and their First Nations wives. NORTHWEST AND Many Métis families sent their children to European settler schools to receive an education. They also made sure that their children learned PACIFIC COAST? First Nations culture and skills. In summer, Métis worked on their farms; in autumn, they hunted and trapped; and in winter, they worked as merchants. Figure 1.29 shows a group of Métis traders. How would their work as traders influence their relationships with the If you and your neighbour both wanted to own land nearby, how would you First Nations and the European settlers in the region? claim the land before your neighbour did? Britain faced the same challenge As the amount of fertile land in the East became scarce, in the mid-1800s. It wanted to claim the land in the Northwest and on the more people moved to Rupert’s Land looking for new Pacific Coast (see Figure 1.1) before the United States claimed it. opportunities. Starting in the late 1850s, settlers from Canada West began to arrive in the Red River area. Primarily POPULATION IN THE EARLY TO MID-1800s Metis an Aboriginal of English and Scottish background, they envisioned person descended from a creating a European and Protestant Rupert’s Land. How During the first half of the 1800s, First Nations in the Northwest and on the First Nations mother and a might this migration affect the Métis and other people Pacific Coast outnumbered the Europeans by more than a hundred to one. The father of European descent already living in Rupert’s Land? Métis Louis Goulet spent Métis, the descendants of French and British traders and their First Nations his life trading and travelling to and from the Red River wives, were also present in these regions. By 1857, Hudson’s Bay Company FIGURE 1.28 This painting by Paul Kane from 1849 to 1856 shows Settlement. His journals and memoirs have been collected estimated that there were 140 000 First Nations people and 10 000 people of Hudson’s Bay Company post FIGURE 1.29 This 1872 photo shows and published as a first-hand account of life in Rupert’s Land European descent and Métis living in the Northwest and the Pacific Coast Fort Edmonton and a First Nations a group of Red River Métis traders. in the mid-1800s. Read the excerpt from one of his memoirs in Figure 1.30. region. Look at the painting in Figure 1.28. What geographic aspects would settlement. Analyze: What does Analyze: What do you see in this this painting reveal about how the photo that shows the influence of What changes is Goulet observing in the Red River Settlement? make it appealing for Hudson’s Bay Company to build a fort in this location? Northwest was changing? European culture on the Métis way of life? “Something was missing in the Red River colony. There wasn’t the same feeling of unity and friendship that had always been felt FIGURE 1.30 This excerpt from among these people of different races and religions … Newcomers, a 1930 interview with Goulet especially the ones from [Canada West], were eagerly sowing racial describes some of the changes and religious conflict, banding together to fan the flames of discord that were occurring during his childhood in Rupert’s Land in the [disagreement] between different groups in the Red River colony.” 1860s. Analyze: From what Goulet is describing, what can you infer — Louis Goulet, Métis trader life was like before this period of change? COLONIZATION OF THE PACIFIC COAST Vancouver Island, in what is known today as the province of British Columbia, became a British colony in 1849. The first governor appointed to this new colony was named James Douglas. He tried to keep the peace between new European settlers who wanted to use the land and First Nations already living in the area such as the Songhees First Nation Aboriginal title the legal and the Esquimalt First Nation. He offered First Nations Aboriginal title to recognition that a particular a small part of the island. This meant that some land was legally recognized territory belongs to a specific First Nations group as First Nations territory. 40 UNIT 1: Creating Canada: 1850–1890 NEL NEL CHAPTER 1: Life in British North America: 1850–1864 41 FOCUS ON HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE To understand people of the past, historians Following the first reported cases in take a historical perspective. They try to see the Fort Victoria, panic gripped the public. Read world from the point of view of those people Figure 1.32, an excerpt from a newspaper editorial. from the past. There is a vast difference between What does the editorial tell you about the our current worldviews and those of the past. perspective of some people in British Columbia Historians try to avoid imposing today’s thinking about the cause of the spread of smallpox? on the perspectives of people of the past. Instead, Many First Nations peoples in Fort Victoria, such a historian considers the historical context in as the Haida and Tsimshian, had travelled from other which people lived and uses evidence to make parts of the colony and built camps near the fort inferences about their thoughts and feelings. This to trade. Under pressure to act, politicians forced evidence may include multiple perspectives on the the non-local First Nations peoples away from the same event. fort. Figure 1.33 is an excerpt from an interview with a descendant of First Nations survivors of the When you attempt to understand the people of epidemic. What does the interview tell you about the past, you can ask the following questions: the epidemic? • What were the beliefs, values, perspectives, and motivations of people who lived at that time? “These white people, they bring • How do those beliefs and values differ from blankets, from people who die of smallpox.… today’s beliefs and values? Then he wrap them up and he sell them to • Did the people make understandable FIGURE 1.31 This lithograph of a drawing by Herman Otto these Indians, then the Indian, he didn’t know, decisions based on the information they had Tiedemann shows Victoria harbour in 1860. The Songhees he just sleep on it, them blankets. Pretty soon First Nation reserve is in the foreground, and the European available to them? “The most stringent [strict] he got them sickness, and pretty soon the settlement is on the far side of the harbour. Analyze: What regulations ought to be enforced, and • What beliefs, values, and ideas do I already does the painting tell you about the community at the time? whole camp got it.” have that affect how I think about this event, enforced without a moment’s delay. If a case — Henry Solomon, grandson of a survivor of period, or person? occurs the parties ouaht [ought] to be placed Many First Nations communities were the epidemic • What inferences can I make about the beyond the reach of communicating the devastated; some disappeared entirely. Examine person’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations infection to others. Imagine for a moment Figure 1.31, which shows the locations of the from the evidence I have? what a fearful calamity [disaster] it would be, FIGURE 1.33 Solomon was recounting the experience of his European settlement and the First Nations reserve. were the horde [large group] of Indians on the grandmother and great-aunt, who survived the smallpox How might the locations of these groups influence epidemic in 1862, in a 1992 book called Nemiah: The outskirts of the town to take the disease. Their Unconquered Country by Terry Glavin. Analyze: What does their views of one another? CASE STUDY: THE SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN filthy habits would perpetuate [spread] the this quote tell you about the perspective of Henry Solomon’s BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1862 James Douglas, the governor of British Columbia evil; keep it alive in the community, sacrificing grandmother on the epidemic? at the time, called for swift action to stop the Smallpox was a contagious disease that killed the lives of all classes. We … believe there is … spread of the disease. He recommended setting about one-third of infected persons. In March 1862, great danger if the small-pox be allowed to up a hospital to treat smallpox and providing TRY IT cases of smallpox were reported in Fort Victoria, on spread through the neglect of the authorities.” 1. Compare Figure 1.32 and Figure 1.33. What vaccinations for the public. In Fort Victoria, Vancouver Island. The disease had been brought beliefs and values of the time are revealed Songhees Chief Chee-ah-thluc and several other — The Daily British Colonist from San Francisco by an infected passenger on a in each? local chiefs and their families were immunized to steamship that stopped overnight at the fort. Over 2. If a similar epidemic were to occur today, how encourage their people to do the same. Elsewhere, FIGURE 1.32 This editorial was published in The Daily British the next 18 months, about 32 000 people of the might the government and the public respond? missionaries went to communities to vaccinate Colonist on March 26, 1862. Analyze: What can you infer about colony’s population of 50 000 died. Almost all of the perspective of the person who wrote the editorial? In what ways might their responses be different people and tend to the sick and dying.
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