One of the stirring stories of the construction of the Canadian Pacific was the Reil Rebellion of 1885, in which Métis people — that is, people of mixed European and aboriginal ancestry — and natives who lived in what is now Manitoba attempted to form their own government because they did not believe the Canadian government was protecting their rights. The Canadian Pacific Railway was not yet complete, but it was fully graded on Fort Garry (later known as Winnipeg), which made it possible for Canada to send 4,000 troops to the area to suppress the rebellion.
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The first menu from the Chung collection today shows some scenes from this troop movement. Where rails existed, troops traveled on ballast cars. Where no rails had yet been laid, they traveled in sleighs or marched. The smaller image of the steamship recalls a more difficult movement of troops to suppress a previous rebellion in 1869.
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This menu shows troops staging for transport in Montreal. The train station shown in the larger picture was built in 1884 and still exists despite not having been used as a train station since 1898. The smaller pictures show then-current CP train stations in Vancouver and Montreal, both of which also still exist.
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Winnipeg was incorporated as a city and named after a nearby lake in 1873. Prior to that, the site was named Fort Garry, after a Hudson’s Bay Company fort built in 1822. This menu provides a little history of the fort including its role in the Reil Rebellions, with one the rebels being featured in one of the smaller illustrations.
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The last menu today takes us back to old Quebec City, where there once existed a fort known as Chateau St. Louis. We’ve previously seen this menu cover from my own collection, but I’m including this one from the Chung collection for the sake of showing all of the confederation series of menus in a few days.