2019-11-08 Fri

Canada Post commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Red River Resistance on a stamp issued November 6th.

The Red River Rebellion or the Red River Resistance, Red River uprising, or First Riel Rebellion was the sequence of events that led up to the 1869 establishment of a provisional government by the Métis leader Louis Riel and his followers at the Red River Colony, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.

The Red River Resistance, also known as the Red River Rebellion, began after the Canadian government purchased a vast amount of western and northern lands from the Hudson Bay Co. in March 1869 without consulting the Metis and First Nations people who lived there.

The commemorative stamp was unveiled Nov. 6 next to the gate of Fort Garry in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The stamp’s design combines images from two historic sources. Shown in the background is Fort Garry from an 1848 lithograph by Henry James Warre, according to Canada Post. The image in the foreground is based on a photograph taken in 1870 by Riel and his provisional government.

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