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I"d never heard of Norwegians in Canada this early on, and so wondered at the Norwegian settlements category....I see the article says they were probably ex-convicts and the place was built in 1917. The Norway House Cree Nation website says, however:
There were still close ties between Orkney and Norway at this time, so I gather someone in Orkney must have called on Norway looking for builders and maybe there was a deal for a certain group's release; would be interesting to find out that background. but what happened to them? Were they sent back to Norway or elsewhere, or did they settle in Manitoba? How many were there? Could it be that their shipbuilding skills/heritage influenced the development of the York boat? I"m also wondering if, due to the name "attracting" them , there were other Norwegian settlers later in the 19th Century, once full-scale Norwegian emigration to Canada began? I'm thinking Category:History of Norwegian Canadians might be a more suitable category than a "settlements" one, though there's at present no similar categories for other ethnicities...it's just unless they actually settled here, or this later became a Norwegian Canadian settlement colony, that category's not really appropriate; the conflict of dates is also an issue..... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:49, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
(See also) The quotes are from: Norwegians in the Selkirk Settlement 1815-1870 By Paul Knaplund (Volume VI: Page 1)
I was reading some historical documents about the Red River Settlement, and I came across a reference to Norway House in George Bryce's The Five Forts of Winnipeg (1885) that has me a bit stumped. In a section talking about the Highlanders leaving the Red River Settlement in 1815 during the Pemmican War, Bryce comments about Norway House:
... to the north end of Lake Winnipeg to the Hudson's Bay Company fort of Jack River, since that time known as Norway House, from the circumstance, it is said, that a number of Norwegians were brought out to that point to endeavour to introduce the reindeer as a beast of transport in Rupert's Land.
— George Bryce, The Five Forts of Winnipeg [1]
In The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk 1810–1820, there is an offhand reference that states
The contingent of Norwegians sent to accompany the shipment of reindeer (which Selkirk and the Company hoped to breed and use to pull sleighs in a winter transportation linkup between the colony and York Factory) would be sent to Playgreen Lake.
— J. M. Bumsted, The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk 1810–1820 [2]
Try as I might though, I can't find any other references to this. Has anyone else heard this story? Littlejohn657 ( talk) 05:51, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
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While it is clear that "Norway House" is the name of more than one entity, the way it's currently written makes it sound as if there are three completely separate locations quite distant from each other, and all of them - just by a crazy coincidence - happen to have exactly the same name. Please, someone who understands the situation, rewrite the sentence about the shared name so that it makes sense to a random person who has never heard of Manitoba. TooManyFingers ( talk) 02:37, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
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I"d never heard of Norwegians in Canada this early on, and so wondered at the Norwegian settlements category....I see the article says they were probably ex-convicts and the place was built in 1917. The Norway House Cree Nation website says, however:
There were still close ties between Orkney and Norway at this time, so I gather someone in Orkney must have called on Norway looking for builders and maybe there was a deal for a certain group's release; would be interesting to find out that background. but what happened to them? Were they sent back to Norway or elsewhere, or did they settle in Manitoba? How many were there? Could it be that their shipbuilding skills/heritage influenced the development of the York boat? I"m also wondering if, due to the name "attracting" them , there were other Norwegian settlers later in the 19th Century, once full-scale Norwegian emigration to Canada began? I'm thinking Category:History of Norwegian Canadians might be a more suitable category than a "settlements" one, though there's at present no similar categories for other ethnicities...it's just unless they actually settled here, or this later became a Norwegian Canadian settlement colony, that category's not really appropriate; the conflict of dates is also an issue..... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:49, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
(See also) The quotes are from: Norwegians in the Selkirk Settlement 1815-1870 By Paul Knaplund (Volume VI: Page 1)
I was reading some historical documents about the Red River Settlement, and I came across a reference to Norway House in George Bryce's The Five Forts of Winnipeg (1885) that has me a bit stumped. In a section talking about the Highlanders leaving the Red River Settlement in 1815 during the Pemmican War, Bryce comments about Norway House:
... to the north end of Lake Winnipeg to the Hudson's Bay Company fort of Jack River, since that time known as Norway House, from the circumstance, it is said, that a number of Norwegians were brought out to that point to endeavour to introduce the reindeer as a beast of transport in Rupert's Land.
— George Bryce, The Five Forts of Winnipeg [1]
In The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk 1810–1820, there is an offhand reference that states
The contingent of Norwegians sent to accompany the shipment of reindeer (which Selkirk and the Company hoped to breed and use to pull sleighs in a winter transportation linkup between the colony and York Factory) would be sent to Playgreen Lake.
— J. M. Bumsted, The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk 1810–1820 [2]
Try as I might though, I can't find any other references to this. Has anyone else heard this story? Littlejohn657 ( talk) 05:51, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
References
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cite book}}
: Check |isbn=
value: checksum (
help)
While it is clear that "Norway House" is the name of more than one entity, the way it's currently written makes it sound as if there are three completely separate locations quite distant from each other, and all of them - just by a crazy coincidence - happen to have exactly the same name. Please, someone who understands the situation, rewrite the sentence about the shared name so that it makes sense to a random person who has never heard of Manitoba. TooManyFingers ( talk) 02:37, 31 July 2023 (UTC)