CHAPTER XLVI. 

 Federal Relations of the North-West. — Continued. 



MANITOBA RIGHTS UNDER THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN ACT — THE 

 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND DISALLOWANCE — THE MANITOBA 

 AGITATION — THE FARMERS' CONVENTION — PROPOSITIONS FROM 

 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT — THEIR REFUSAL BY THE LEGISLA- 

 TURE — the Hudson's bay question. 



LREADY we have seen through the foregoing chapter how 

 through circumstances of a somewhat advanced character 

 the young Province of Manitoba was farmed ; and, notwith- 

 standing the exigencies of the times, provision for the 

 future, in nearly every respect, was fully made. The educational 

 wants were amply provided for by setting apart two sections of land 

 in every township for that purpose ; and the application of the 

 British North America Act to the North- West was a guarantee that 

 the Provinces of that part of Canada would enjoy full Provincial 

 autonomy with the other and older members of Confederation. 



When the Province of Manitoba was first established there were 

 no great hopes of its future in the minds of its founders. The 

 Canadian North-West was at that time unknown, and those who 

 did possess a knowledge of its agricultural advantages were careful 

 to keep it to themselves. However, with the restoration of peace 

 the Canadian element in the country rapidly increased, and as fast 

 as information of the resources of the country was obtained it was 

 disseminated. This was the beginning of immigration; and, one 

 circumstance leading on to another, the full extent and fertility of the 

 Prairie Region began to dawn upon the world. It soon became 

 evident that Manitoba was destined to become one of the greatest 

 Provinces of the Confederation ; and that other Provinces to the 



