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Republic of Manitoba Hist, 
See 1958 quote.
- 1870 Dr. Schultz .. . signalised his return to Fort Garry, by entering the house of the editor of the New Nation, Mr. [Thomas] Spence, the ex-president of the first Manitoba Republic, going into the bed-room and actually attacking the naked man with a horse-whip!
- 1946 How loose things were becoming in the territories is evidenced by the remarkable conduct of one Spence, a resident of Portage la Prairie, who one fine day in 1869 came out with a modest proclamation announcing that he had set up the Republic of Manitoba.
- 1958 [In 1867 Spence . . . had the [Portage la Prairie] council reorganized to form the government of New Caledonia, soon more appropriately renamed Manitobah; the new body was derisively called "the Republic" by the Red River Nor'Wester]
- 1870 Dr. Schultz .. . signalised his return to Fort Garry, by entering the house of the editor of the New Nation, Mr. [Thomas] Spence, the ex-president of the first Manitoba Republic, going into the bed-room and actually attacking the naked man with a horse-whip!