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Title: The Red River Colony
A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba

Author: Louis Aubrey Wood

Release Date: September 20, 2009 [EBook #30040]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk. From the
painting at St Mary's Isle]

THE

RED RIVER COLONY

A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba

BY

LOUIS AUBREY WOOD

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1915

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

TO

MY FATHER

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CONTENTS

Page

I. ST MARY'S ISLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. SELKIRK, THE COLONIZER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
III. THE PURSE-STRINGS LOOSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
IV. STORNOWAY--AND BEYOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
V. WINTERING ON THE BAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
VI. RED RIVER AND PEMBINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
VII. THE BEGINNING OF STRIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
VIII. COLIN ROBERTSON, THE AVENGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
IX. SEVEN OAKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
X. LORD SELKIRK'S JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
XI. FORT WILLIAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
XII. THE PIPE OF PEACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THOMAS DOUGLAS, FIFTH EARL OF SELKIRK . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
From the painting at St Mary's Isle.

PLACE D'ARMES, MONTREAL, IN 1807 . . . . . . . . . . _Facing page_ 20
From a water-colour sketch after Dillon in
M'Gill University Library.

JOSEPH FROBISHER, A PARTNER IN THE
NORTH-WEST COMPANY . . . . . . . . . .