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Title: The Selkirk settlement and the settlers. A concise history of the Red River Country from its discovery, including information extracted from Original Documents lately discovered and notes obtained from Selkirk Settlement Colonists
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Bell, Charles N. (Charles Napier), 1854-1936
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Publisher: Winnipeg : "The Commercial'
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
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ver country whenI saw him in 1817. I do not remember ever having heard ofLord Selkirks sending out any reindeerfrom Norway, but he did send out a herd ofOrkney cattle. I remember Duncan Cameron of theNorthwest Company, who was a fine oldgentleman, much liked by the people, alsohis brother Reynold, who died at Pembina. In 1816, Colin Robertson did not agreewell with the officials in the settlement.They did not like him, neither did thesettlers. As he started off with a boat con-taining fur for Lake Winnipeg, in derisionhe hoisted a pemican sack in- 10 The Selkirk Settlement and the Settle stead of a British Hag as was usual.This was before the Sernple affair.After the massacre the Northwesters occu-pied Fort Douglas, but erected new housesat Fort Gibraltar in 1817-18 after Col. Colt- was a back gate on the north side by whichwood was taken in. The fort stood twentyor thirty yards back from the rivers, whichat that time were much narrower than now.Lord Selkirk gave a free grant of fifty
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man, the commissioner, came here. FortGibraltar was positively situated on thevery point of land between the rivers,although the main face and principal gate-way overlooked the Assiniboine, There actestoan old French halfbreed namedJoseph Plant, near my place. Plant wasfrozen to death near Pembina, iu the winterof 1820, when a lot of the French, whowere starving on the plains beyond Pern- iiiK Si-j.kick Settlement \m> rm Skttleks. liina. started For the settlement. It wasmild at first, but began to rain. The wind(.•hanging its direction brought Bnow anddrift, so that they Lost the trail. All per-ished there except a son of Plant, who ran•head to Grande Pointe, Borne miles Bouthof Pembina. Though he managed to starta tiro, his olothos Being wet and lio ex-hausted, he was overcome and died besidetin fire, his body being afterwards foundnear tho remains of the small tire. Anotherson of Plant, who had not been with theparty, later on sold the property to JohnSutherland, from whom,

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