Assiniboia

Assiniboia was the name of several administrative units at the bottom of today's Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The name is derived from the Indian Assiniboine.

The Hudson 's Bay Company ( HBC) in 1811, leaving a portion of their franchise territory Rupert's land to the Scottish philanthropist and co-owner of the company, Lord Selkirk for colonization by landless Scottish farmers, called the Red River colony. Began in 1812 at the confluence of the Assiniboine River and Red River ( The Forks ) the construction of the trading post, Fort Douglas and the first farm buildings. The surrounding areas were to the first administrative area Assiniboia and the fort was the seat of the first Governor Miles Macdonell.

The foundation was a significant blow against the rival company North West Company ( NWC ) and the related close trade relations with their Métis, who settled at The Forks. There were strenuous arguments, the Pemmican War. The two companies occupied each other's forts or burnt it down equal. Finally, both were financially hit hard and went in 1821 with a merger further disputes out of the way, the new company continued to be called Hudson 's Bay Company. In 1822, was Fort Gibraltar, formerly the trading post of the NWC at the Forks, expanded and renamed Fort Garry, the new administrative center of Assiniboia.

1869 bought the Canadian Federal Government of the HBC from their territories and in 1870 was the area around Fort Garry with the Manitoba Act to the new province of Manitoba, the fort whose capital. The remaining areas, and thus the rest of Assiniboia were initially managed by Fort Garry from, or the former premises Fort Garry is from 1874 from Winnipeg, the center today. 1905 then went most of Assiniboias in the new province of Saskatchewan, a smaller residual in Alberta.