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Louis Riel and a group of Métis men stop Canadian government surveyors from working on Métis land at Red River, beginning the resistance that leads to the Red River Rebellion and Manitoba's entry into Confederation.
The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement is ratified, setting the stage for the creation of Nunavut as Canada's newest and largest territory on April 1, 1999.
Pope Benedict XVI meets with a delegation of residential school survivors at the Vatican and expresses sorrow for the suffering caused by the residential school system in Canada.