Reporting the Resistance: Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance

by J.M. Bumsted, Alexander Begg, Joseph Jam Hargrave

Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view "from the ground" of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba.

In 1869 and 1870, Begg and Hargrave were regular correspondents for (respectively) the Toronto Globe and the Montreal Herald. While neither man was a committed supporter of the M tis or Louis Riel, each gives a more complex, and more sympathetic, view of the resistance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887556752
• ISBN13: 9780887556753
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 9.0"