"The first significant gun control law in Canada was passed in 1885 after the second Riel rebellion."

[Battle of Fish Creek by lithographic artist Fred W. Curzon, 1885.
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"The incident outraged many Canadians of the time. More recently, however, historians have cast it in a different light — as a desperate act by people who had survived a particularly severe winter and suffered food shortages and harsh treatment at the hands of Indian agent Thomas Quinn." Canada's History