HIST261 Lecture Notes - Repeating Rifle, Socalled, Robinson Treaty
25 Feb 2014
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The main impetus for confederation in ontario had been so that they would be able to acquire the nwt for land development. Even since the mid 1600"s the nwt had pretty much been governed by the hbc and they didn"t want people settling there because it would interfere with the fur trade. So to discourage settlers, they told people that it was a barren wasteland of ice. Unfortunately for them, the government of cnd and britain sent out separate surveyors (who incidentally never ran into each other) with whole teams of geologists, and testers etc. , to determine if the land was good for farming. Both teams reported back a couple years later that it was pretty fantastic land for farming with an exception of a triangle of land in what is now southern alberta (palliser"s triangle). And so britain strong armed the hbc into giving up the.
