Canadian Party

The Canadian Party was founded by John Christian Schultz 1869 political grouping in the Red River colony, which at that time the center of Fort Garry Winnipeg today forms as the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba.

She was not a political party in the true sense, but rather a union of ultra - Protestant settlers, who advanced from the east in the selling areas of Canada in 1869 the Hudson's Bay Company.

The first objective of the Canadian party was the annexation of the Red River colony by the Canadian government and its colonization by Anglophone Protestants from Ontario, which amounted to an expulsion of there already living Cree, Assiniboine, Métis and Scottish settlers. To this end, operated Schultz and his colleagues in the area around Fort Garry extensive land speculation, which in particular caused a great distrust in there mainly based Métis led by Louis Riel.

History

Many members of the Canadian Party were involved during the Red River Rebellion 1869-1870 Provisional in skirmishes with Riels Government of Manitoba. Schultz fled early in 1870 to Ontario, where he led the execution of Thomas Scott by the provisional government took advantage with the help of supporters of the movement Canadafirst to apply the Protestant majority of the local population against Riel.

After the adoption of the Manitoba Act in May 1870 " pacified " the Canadian government, the Red River colony. Due to the posting of militia under Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley, which the Provisional Government was driven into exile and remained the Métis without their leadership The Canadian Party, however, was also not included in the government of the new province of Manitoba, because the Canadian government under John A. Macdonald put on a conciliatory policy towards the local ethnic, linguistic and religious groups, and the first governor used Adams George Archibald took no of Schultz's colleagues in his government.

In the first election to the Manitoba Parliament in December 1870, the Canadian Party was the only opposition to the provincial government and won only five seats. Schultz himself was defeated in the electoral district of Winnipeg and St. John. After the election, the Canadian party remained as loose interest group of violent, extremist Protestants, what Governor Archibald led to Premier Macdonald concerned to warn against their attempt to drive the Métis. In fact, attacks by the Canadian Party and remaining militias were on the Métis also a reason for their retreat towards the west, the main reason will nevertheless be the extermination of the buffalo in the field have been, which were essential for the livelihood of the Métis. But the Canadian party broke up in the following years and some of its members as candidates for conservatives or liberals later.