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Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. What is Halkett's attitude toward the Métis in the Red River region? Why does he hold this attitude?
2. Why did the Métis resent the ways in which their territory was transferred from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada?
3. Why do you think people were and are so fascinated by racial or ethnic origins?
4. How did the Hudson's Bay Company's and the North West Company's competing versions of events at the Seven Oaks battle contribute to the development of Métis identity?
5. Ens presents us with a picture of Red River society on the eve of the resistance there. Compare and contrast the competing ideals of community that Ens describes.
6. Was Brown right to argue that the Confederation scheme would bring justice to both English- and French-speaking Canada and that it had been endorsed by the electorate?
7. Dorion's speech introduces us to some of the potential problems associated with the creation of a new nation from the provinces of British North America. What were some of these?
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being linked politically (e.g., as part of a federation like Canada) with distant places that might notshare the value systems that predominate in your community?
9. What were the financial concerns that the Atlantic colonies had with Confederation? Why did Nova Scotia and New Brunswick elect to join the union? Was it the correct decision?
10. How did political events in the western hemisphere impact Canada's path to Confederation? Did Brazil or the United States have a greater impact on the eventual form of the union?