A biography of John Norquay, the first Indigenous premier of Canada's Manitoba province, and a history of the province's evolution from the Red River settlement.
Wab Kinew is not Canada ’s or Manitoba ’s first Indigenous premier. That distinction belongs to John Norquay , who governed the province from 1878 to 1887 – though some would accord that distinction to the rebellious Louis Riel. Norquay is the subject of a fine and comprehensive new biography by Gerald Friesen, a historian and former professor of history at University of Manitoba .
The arrival of English, Protestant settlers from Ontario, and the transfer of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s lands to the new Dominion of Canada without local consultation created a movement of resistance in 1869-70. Norquay kept his head down as Louis Riel created a provisional government that alarmed John A. Macdonald’s federal government in Ottawa.The Red River Resistance led to the creation of the new Province of Manitoba, and to Riel’s exile.
On his watch, the provincial government budget and Manitoba’s population expanded by five or sixfold. Norquay’s governments built roads and bridges and negotiated the routes of railroads, while creating and expanding public services and the infrastructure of government.
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