Peel’s Prairie Provinces: University of Alberta Library, a Division of Learning Services

Peel 490

Assiniboia. Provisional government, 1869-1870; Bruce, John [info]; Riel, Louis (1844-1885) [info]. Declaration des habitants de la Terre de Rupert et du nord' [sic] ouest. Fort Garry, NWT: s.n, 1869.

Physical description: Broadside: 68 lines.; Type-page, 25.3 x 11.1 cm.

Language: French

For English version, see Peel 491. This broadside proclaimed the establishment of a provisional government. Two preliminary drafts were printed. Col. Dennis at Lower Fort Garry recorded in his diary for the evening of December 7 that Mr William Coldwell had arrived from Fort Garry with a copy of a draft: "Mr Caldwell [sic] said that he had been forced to print it, that the French were not satisfied to keep his press from him but in addition, forced him to work for them by threats of armed men, who were placed in possession." For facsimile see Bruce Peel, Early printing in the Red River Settlement 1859-1870 , page 22.

Subject headings:

• Prairie Provinces--Politics and government
• Red River Rebellion, 1869-70