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