| Date: November 2, 1869 | |
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Date: November 2, 1869 Red River Insurrection
With 120 men, Métis leader Louis Riel occupied Fort Garry in the Red River Colony to block the transfer of the Northwest from the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada. The insurrection resulted in the formation of the new province of Manitoba but Riel was exiled.
Louis Riel and the Provisional
Government, 1869
