The Lieutenant-Governorship in Manitoba, 1870-1882

Abstract

This work might be said to comprise one principal study - the lieutenant-governorship - and several secondary studies - the aftermath of the Red River Insurrection, and the broad lines of Manitoba's social and economic development from 1870 to 1882. The latter aspects, which occupy the fifth, eighth, and tenth chapters, were judged necessary as essential background material which has not yet received adequate treatment by Canadian historians. Their inclusion accounts for the perhaps unusual length of this thesis...