Reporting the Resistance: Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance - Bumsted, J.M.

As New; Perhaps the closest thing to a modern journalistic account of the resistance came from the pens of two young men from eastern Canada who had recently moved to Red River. During the six months of resistance, Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave wrote regularly to the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald respectively. Together, their reports to these newspapers offer a first-hand running account of the events that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba. While neither Begg nor Hargrave were committed supporters of the Metis or Louis Riel, each gives a more nuanced, and more sympathetic view of the resistance than is commonly expected from the Anglophone community of Red River. They are Red River's own accounts of these events, and are often quite different from those of eastern observers.
As New
Soft cover
University of Manitoba Press
2003
Winnipeg, MB