§ SIR CHARLES ADDERLEYsaid, he wished to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, What informa- 326 tion the Government have received relating to the settlement of the Red River affairs and the admission of that territory as a province of the Dominion of Canada?
§ MR. MONSELLSir, as I stated yesterday in answer to my right hon. Friend, I have to state that the negotiations between the Government of Canada and the Red River delegates have closed I satisfactorily, and a Bill to give effect to the arrangement between the two parties, as we learn by a telegram received yesterday, has passed through the House with the general consent of all parties. An expedition was about to proceed to the Red River, which it was expected would be an expedition of peace. The terms arranged between the two parties are that a province named Manitoba is to be constituted, which will comprise the settled portions of the Hudson's Bay territory. Its population will be about 15,000, and its area 11,000 square miles. The Lieutenant Governor will be appointed by the Government of Canada. It will have representative institutions. Its Upper House will be nominated; its Lower elected by the people. It will be represented in the Parliament of the Dominion by two senators and four representatives, to increase hereafter in proportion to population. The waste lands are to belong to the Dominion, but 1,200,000 acres are to be reserved to extinguish the claims of half-breeds and Indian titles; all existing titles and possessions are to be respected. Satisfactory and liberal financial arrangements are to be made by the Government of Canada with the new State, and in all other respects it is to have terms secured to it analogous to those already granted to the other provinces that constitute the Dominion. The vast unsettled and unpeopled territory not included in the new province is to be administered by the Lieutenant Governor under instructions from the Canadian Government.