Chapter three

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Across
  1. 3. – Métis leader executed in 1885 (last name)
  2. 5. – Temporary government formed by Métis in 1869
  3. 7. – Indigenous nation of mixed First Nations and European ancestry
  4. 8. – Certificates given to Métis people instead of land
  5. 9. – The prime minister who arranged the transfer of Rupert’s Land (last name)
  6. 10. – Leader of the Métis who headed the Provisional Government
  7. 14. – Pacific province connected by the CPR
  8. 16. – 1872 law that set rules for dividing and distributing western lands to settlers.
  9. 18. – Railway connecting eastern Canada to British Columbia (abbr.)
  10. 19. – Formal agreements between First Nations and the Crown
Down
  1. 1. – Workers who measured land for settlement, often causing tension
  2. 2. – Province created by the Manitoba Act
  3. 3. – The promise that Manitoba would be bilingual (language ______)
  4. 4. – Conflict in 1869–70 after Canada purchased Rupert’s Land
  5. 6. – Law-enforcement group created to keep order in the Northwest
  6. 11. – The territory Canada bought in 1869
  7. 12. – 1870 law that created a new province and protected Métis rights
  8. 13. – Company that sold Rupert’s Land to Canada
  9. 15. – Official ownership of land
  10. 17. – The police force that later became the RCMP (abbr.)