Can Ottawa settle the frontier without bloodshed?
Shortly after Confederation, Canada turned its eyes west, to its vast unsettled frontier. Read these indepth articles about Pioneers Head West Mounties Saddle Up A legendary police force is born on the western frontier. Marketing the Frontier A misleading advertising campaign convinces thousands to head west Tales on the Trails Following their dreams, pioneers travel a nightmare journey across the Praires. Quebecers in New England French Canadians flee to the U.S. for work and ignore pleas to settle Canada’s West Winnipeg Boomtown The little prairie town enter a golden age as it becomes the gateway to the West But the federal government faced a huge problem: how to settle an immense land with a weak treasury. The Canadian government had watched the carnage unfold in the American West, when settlers brazenly flocked into the untamed land, provoking bloody and expensive Indian wars. In 1876 alone, the American government spent $20 million dollars fighting the Indians. That amount represe
