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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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free of charge to West- their houses had been destroyed. Theyre-occupied the remaining dwellingsand exerted themselves to buildanew as well as gather in thecrops left standing, which luckilyhad been preserved by the HudsonsBay Co.s men, who remained on the spot tolook after the trading interests of the Com-pany. Over loOO bushels of wheat, someother grain, and a large stock of potatoeswere housed. It wa3 at this time that thesite of the residence of the Selkirk governor,with the buildings about it, was namedFort Douglas, after his lordship. THE FOURTH PARTY OF EMIGRANTS. Lord Selkirks agents were working inSutherlandshire, Scotland, and in the springof 1815 a large party of emigrants had beensecured, the majority of them hailing fromthe Parish of Kildonan. Some of these peoplehad sufficient ready money to pay over tohis lordship the sum of £10 for passage tothe Red river. Others, not so fortunate,agreed to engage as servants for the colony 14 The Selkirk Settlement and the Settlers.
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KEY.1. Fort Rouge—built by LaVerandrye about1736.The Forks—built by Northwest Company about 1803.Fort Gibraltar—built by Northwest Com-pany about 1806. Destroyed by Lord Selkirksagents in 1816. Rebuilt byNorthwest Company about1817; occupied by H. B. Co.after amalgamation withNorthwest Company in 1821and on April 18th, 1822, itsname was changed by Sir Geo.Simpson, the H. B. Co. gover-nor, to Fort Garry.Fort Garry, a new tort built byGovernor Pelly, but destroyedby the great flood of 1826. Itwas rebuilt by Governer Pellyin 1826, and afterwards wasused as buildings for a modelfarm. 2. H. B. Cos store, or perhaps fort. In use prior to arrival of Selkirk colon-ists in 1812. 3. Government House of the Selkirk Col- ony, afterwards (in the fall of 1815)it was named Fort Douglas. 1812-1826. 4. The last Fort Garry built by Governor Christie in 1835 36. 5. Stables bailt for model farm about 1840. 6. Grove of trees beside present residence of Ex-Mayor Logan, where GovernorSemple and his pa

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