20 INTRODUCTION,

inserted at the instance of Mr. Mandongall, providing for the
inclusion of Ruperts Tand and the North West Pervitorias
xpow terms to be defined in an address to the Uhreen, and anb-
ject to her approval. In pursusnce of this clause, Mr. Mac-
dougall ln 1807 intredueed inte the first Parliament of the
Dorainion = series of eight resolutions, which, after much
apgosiiion, were at length passed, and were followed by the
exthodying address, drafted by a Special Committee of the
Bonse, and which was duly trenanitted to the Leperial Gee-
exmment, This was followed by the mission of Messrs.
tarlier sud Maolougall te London, to treat for the transfer
of the Territaries, which, through the mediation of Lori
Granville, was Bually effected. The date fixed mpon for the
transfer was the first of Devercber, 1869. Unfortunately for
EtentenantUovermor Macdengall, owing to the outhresk of
armed rebellion at Red River, it was postponed withaxt bis
luowledoe, and it was net until the 16th of July, 1870, that
the whole conntry Snally heeame a part of the Dorainion of
Hanada. With the latter date the annals of Prince Rupert's
Laud and ike North-West Territory end, and the histary of
Western Canada beging,

Radi whilst the Hudson's Ray Company's territorial rights
ami those of Grea Britain had been at last transferred to the
Dotninion, there verusined inextingnished the most intrinsic
of all, vis, the rights of the Indiana and their oollaterals to
their native and traditional soil, The adjustment of these
vights was assumed by the Canadian Parliament in the last
bat one of the resolutions iutradueed by Mr. Msedougsll, and
no time was lost after the transfer in carrying out its terns,
“in conformity with the equitable prinaiples which Rave
vaiforaly governed the Crown in its dealings with the
aborigines’*

*In tha lategeing brief sketeh, the authar, fer lack of space, roRits
ah roferenoe io the Red River frauhles, whic uraceded the actual
transfer, as aisa te the military expedition under Col. Walever, the
Vhrentonnd racall of which fram Princes Arthurs Landing, in Jub,
2878, was blocked by the botd and vigeraus xetian of the Crnada
First, Pasty in Kavonte.