Reporting the resistance : Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance / edited and annotated with an introduction by J. M. Bumsted.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bumsted, J. M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Begg, Alexander, 1839-1897.

Begg, Alexander.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view "from the ground" of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba. In 1869 and 1870, Begg and Hargrave were regular correspondents for (respectively) the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald. While neither man was a committed supporter of the Metis or Louis Riel, each gives a more complex, and more sympathetic, view of the resistance that is commonly expected from the Anglophone community of Red River. They describe, often from very different perspectives, the events of the resistance, as well as give insider accounts of the social and political background. Largely unreprinted until now, this correspondence remains a relatively untapped resource for contemporary views of the resistance. These are the Red River's own accounts, and are often quite different from the perspective of eastern observers.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""18 September 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""25 September 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""2 October 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""9 October 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""16 October 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""22 October 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""30 October 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""10 November 1869 Alexander Begg""; ""13 November 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""20 November 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""20 [27] November 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""1 December 1869 Alexander Begg""; ""2 December 1869 Alexander Begg""; ""4 December 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""9 December 1869 Alexander Begg""

""11 December 1869 J.J. Hargrave""""17 December 1869 Alexander Begg""; ""18 December 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""25 December 1869 J.J. Hargrave""; ""11 January 1870 Alexander Begg""; ""22 January 1870 J.J. Hargrave""; ""29 January 1870 J.J. Hargrave""; ""1 February 1870 Alexander Begg""; ""25 February 1870 Alexander Begg""; ""9 February 1870 Alexander Begg""; ""18 February 1870 Alexander Begg""; ""26 February 1870 Alexander Begg""; ""Appendix: Significant Participants in the Red River Rebellion""; ""Endnotes""; ""Maps and Illustrations""; ""Red River, 1870""; ""Joseph James Hargrave""

""Alexander Begg""

Notes:

Letters originally written in 1869 and 1870, by Alexander Begg to the Toronto Globe and Joseph Hargrave to the Montreal Herald.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9786613091086

9781283091084

1283091089

9780887553608

0887553605

OCLC:

1406790610