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Begg, Alexander merchant (1839-1897) [info]; Morton, William Lewis (b.1908) (editor) [info]. Alexander Begg's Red River journal and other papers relative to the Red River Resistance of 1869-1870. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1956.

Physical description: xxiii, 636, xvi p., illus., ports., fold. map.; 25 cm.

Language: English

Edition limited to 600 copies, 550 of them numbered. Reprinted, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969 (cciii, 636p.). Includes Morton's introduction (pages 1-148), Begg's journal (151-394), and "Documents relating to the Red River Resistance, 1869-1870": "Letter from Charles Mair to Holmes Mair, November 19, 1868"; "Letter from a Half-Breed (L.R.) to Le Nouveau Monde , February 1, 1869"; "Special correspondence by Charles Mair to the Globe , April 25, 1869"; "Abbé Dugas to Bishop Taché, August 29, 1869"; "A letter from Red River giving the grounds on which the resistance was begun, October 6, 1869"; "Extract from private letter of Governor William Mactavish on the beginnings of the resistance, October 13, 1869"; "Special correspondence by J.J. Hargrave in the Montreal Herald on the beginning of the resistance, November 6, 1869"; and "Louis Riel's notes of the sessions of the November convention of the English and French, November 16 to December 1, 1869."

Subject headings:

• Diaries
• Red River Rebellion, 1869-70