as secondary material a work that is to be regarded as a primary source
on the later history of the colony--_The Red River Settlement_ (1856)
by Alexander Ross. Ross was a pioneer emigrant to the colony of
Astoria on the Pacific Coast. In 1817 he entered the service of the
North-West Company; after the union of the fur companies in 1821 he
remained in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1825 he went as
a settler to the Red River Colony, where he soon became an influential
officer. His narrative is vigorous in style as well as fair-minded in
its criticisms, and is an indispensable authority on the beginnings of
Manitoba.

The most prolific writer upon the career of Lord Selkirk and the
history of the Red River Colony is Professor George Bryce, of Winnipeg,
who has been a resident at 'the Forks' of the Red and Assiniboine
rivers since 1871. He has thus been in a position to gather and
preserve the traditions handed down by redskin, trapper, and colonist.
Consult his _Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists_ (1909);
also_ Manitoba: Infancy, Progress and Present Condition_ (1872); _The
Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company_ (1900); _Mackenzie,
Selkirk and Simpson_ (1906).

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An account of Lord Selkirk will be found in Kingsford, _History of
Canada_, vol. ix. The reader should also consult, in _Canada and its
Provinces_ (vol. xix), the excellent monograph by Professor Chester
Martin. This is the most recent and probably the most thoroughly
grounded study of the Red River Colony. The same work contains a good
account of the Selkirk Settlement in Prince Edward Island (vol. xiii,
p. 354) by Dr Andrew Macphail. The Baldoon Settlement is treated of by
Dr George W. Mitchell in the _Proceedings of the Ontario Historical
Society_ for 1913. See also the monograph, 'Pioneer Settlements' [of
Upper Canada], by A. C. Casselman in _Canada and its Provinces_, vol.
xvii.

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INDEX

Assiniboia, the seat of Selkirk's colony on the Red River, 35-36. See
Red River Colony.

Assiniboines, and Red River Colony, 36; their friendliness, 56, 57.

Baldoon Farm, Selkirk's settlement at, 18-20.

Bathurst, Lord, colonial secretary, 91, 130.

Beaver Club, entertain Lord Selkirk, 20-1.

Bois Brules, their hostility to the Red River colonists, 54, 60; attack
Colony Gardens, 77-9, 86; at Seven Oaks, 95-101; their savage orgy at
Fort Douglas, 106.

Boucher, Francois, his parley with Govern