22. -1763- Red River as a Boundary

From 1763, the year the Treaty of Paris was signed, until 1849, the year Minnesota became a territory, the drainage basin of the Red River of the North and the Mississippi River were the two most important boundary lines of the ever changing political subdivision now known as Minnesota.

Explore Historic Breckenridge
and Wilkin County
Neoma A. Laken
Wilkin County Historian
Breckinridge, Minnesota

1.
 Henry Hudson
12.
 Colonel John J. Abercrombie
2.
 Pierre de la Verendrye
13.
 Anson Northrup
3.
 Chief Pegius
14.
 The Metis
4.
 Charles Chaboillez
15.
 Province of Manitoba
5.
 Alexander Henry
16.
 James Hill
6.
 Lord Douglas
17.
 Steamboats
7.
 Sir George Simpson
18.
 Red River Elevation
8.
 Joe Rolette
19.
 Grand Forks
9.
 Norman W. Kittson
20.
 Moorhead - Glyndon
10.
 Major Samuel Woods
21.
 Hudson's Bay Company
11.
 William Cochran
22.
 Red River as a boundary

 

  


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