Red River's Only Newspaper Shuts Down
December 1869: Rupert’s Land Colony : Louis Riel and his supporters have closed the offices of the “Nor’Wester, the colony’s only newspaper. The move is one of a series of events in which the provisional government is seeking to impose its authority on the troubled colony. In this same week all Winnipeg shops were cleared of guns and ammunition.
In silencing the Nor’Wester , Riel had effectively served to shut down all principal means of public communication. It had been noted that in those recent editions , of the time (November – December 1869) that the newspaper itself could be said to have met with some success in creating what some said was a historical breach between the English and French-Canadian groups and camps in the Manitoba regions. The final edition of the Nor’Wester newpaper appeared November 24 , 1869.
Full List of newspaper editions of the Manitoba Nor’Wester local newspaper:
