Summary
The dominion government appointed a governor and council to govern the prairie region that had only recently joined the dominion of Canada. Under the North-West Territories Act, which came later, the region would be governed by a council of appointed and elected representatives.
Implications
A new Euro-Canadian governance system was introduced to the prairie region, which had previously been regulated by Indigenous systems. The implementation of colonial governing systems would cause widespread dissonance throughout the region, and would prove to drastically and negatively effect Indigenous ways of life after being subjected to colonial policies.
Sources
Morris Zaslow, The Opening of the Canadian North, 1870-1914 (Toronto: Stewart-McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1971), 23.
Date
1872-00-00
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