Winnipeg of Métis, led by Louis Riel, and newcomers from eastern Canada. General Garnet Wolseley was sent to put down the uprising. The Manitoba Act of 1870 made Manitoba the fifth province of the three-year-old Canadian Confederation. Treaty 1, which encompassed the city and much of the surrounding area, was signed on 3 August 1871 by representatives of the Crown and local Indigenous groups, comprising the Brokenhead Ojibway, Sagkeeng, Long Plain, Peguis, Roseau River Anishinabe, Sandy Bay and Swan Lake communities. On 8 November 1873, Winnipeg was incorporated as a city, with the Selkirk settlement as its nucleus. Métis legislator and
John Arbuthnot (Canadian politician) from 1901 to 1903. In 1907 he left Winnipeg for British Columbia and remained in that province until his death in 1931. The City of Winnipeg named Arbuthnot Street in his honour. John Arbuthnot (Canadian politician) John Arbuthnot (7 January 1861 – 18 September 1931) was a Canadian politician serving as an alderman and the 19th Mayor of Winnipeg. Arbuthnot worked in the railway industry in his early career, building tracks for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Ontario. He then moved to Rat Portage, Ontario to work at the Western Lumber Company. He established his own lumber business after moving