What were the results of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion?

Answer 1

The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed because the government saw how quickly troops could be transported on it. There was an English-French conflict due to the hanging of Louis Riel. The Aboriginal Peoples were monitored and controlled according to the "Pass & Permit System". This would supposedly prevent them from being corrupted.

Answer 2

I hope this is halpful,

Bill Crawley, Reference Librarian, Illinois Central College

From Loyal till death: Indians & the North-West rebellion, Canadiaan Geographic

IN 1885 near Duck Lake, Sask., an unarmed Cree headman angrily berated a police superintendent and 100 armed police and civilians who were about to confront a party of armed Metis. "If you are going to have a battle, if you are going to spill blood, you cannot do it on our reserve land," Assiyiwin told the police interpreter, Joe McKay. A shoving match began and a struggle for McKay's gun ensued. Metis emissary Isidore Dumont, also unarmed, arrived at the melee frantically waving his hands and shouting at the men not to shoot each other. McKay, fearing it was a ruse for an ambush, shot Dumont, then Assiyiwin. Sixteen died in the ensuing gunfight. The first blood had been spilled in the Northwest Rebellion. The capture, trial and execution of Metis leader Louis Riel is where the story usually ends. But the wrath of the federal government also fell heavily on status Indians who were accused of forming a treasonous alliance with the Metis. Twenty-eight bands were declared disloyal and targeted for bureaucratic retribution. Eight Indians were executed in what remains the largest mass hanging in Canadian history. For anyone curious about the distrust that plagues the relationship between aboriginal people and Canada, Loyal Till Death is a good place to start. Authors Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser say there was no concerted rebellion by the Indians. The real story, they say, is how the government of the day seized on the spontaneous and isolated actions of a relatively small group of status Indians to stamp out Indian independence and implement Ottawa's own agenda -- a policy of forced assimilation that negated the purpose and spirit of the treaties. Stonechild, a member of the Muscowpetung band in southern Saskatchewan and now with the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, became intrigued by elders' stories that contradicted popular history about the rebellion. His own investigation became the thesis for a Master's degree but he also found many elders reluctant to share those stories outside their communities, still fearing retribution, offending the dead or bringing shame to relatives and friends. Waiser, a former historian with the Canadian Parks Service and now head of the history department at the University of Saskatchewan, independently arrived at the same conclusion about Indian loyalty through scholarly literature. The partnership of the two has resulted in a book that blends native oral accounts with academic argument to provide a readable story of a bloody turning point in Canada's history. Determined to maintain the terms of the treaties, the Indians preferred diplomacy over rebellion for dealing with a tight-fisted government that ignored promises. The vast majority refused to participate in the rebellion but ended up being punished as traitors. The authors maintain it is time to redress the historical record. "The story of how the Indians kept faith and remained loyal to the Queen during a time of national crisis has been passed from one generation to the next. It is now up to the Canadian Government to finally acknowledge this fact."