y, 32, 141; its extent and position, 33-4, 132;
conditions of settlement, 35, 110; types of settlers, 37-8, 39, 40, 42,
47, 48, 51, 63, 83, 108-10, 136-7; the departure of first contingent of
colonists from Stornoway, 38-43; reach Hudson Bay, 44-5; and winter on
the Nelson, 45-51; journey to Red River, 51-4; the official
inauguration of the colony, 55-6; relations with the Indians, 54, 56,
57, 74, 78, 89, 95, 102 n., 112-13, 132; dire straits of colonists in
winter, 57-8, 59-60, 85; the arrival of Irish colonists, 58; Colony
Gardens built, 59; the arrival of Sutherland men, 61-63; exodus of the
settlers, 76, 78; Colony Gardens destroyed, 77-9; restored, 81-82; a
fourth contingent of colonists, 83; the Seven Oaks massacre, 95-102;
the second expulsion, 102-4; Lord Selkirk arrives, 128-30; the locust
plagues, 139-40; comes into its own, 141. See Highlanders.

Reed, Collector, a tool of the Nor'westers, 40.

Robertson, Colin, his grievance against the North-West Company, 37,
80-1; restores Colony Gardens, 81-2; his revenge at Fort Gibraltar,
84-5, 86-7, 101, 104, 133.

Robinson, J. B., attorney-general of Upper Canada, 127, 134.

Rogers, Captain, killed at Seven Oaks, 98, 100.

Rupert's Land, Lord Selkirk's Colony in, 32, 132.

Saint Anne's chapel, a halting-place of the coureurs de bois, 25.

St Mary's Isle, the Selkirk mansion on, 2-3, 4.

Saulteaux, and Red River Colony, 78, 89, 102 n., 132; and the
North-West Company, 106.

Scott, Sir Walter, his friendship with Lord Selkirk, 7, 27, 136, 138.

Selkirk, fourth Earl of, 2; a patron of letters, 5.

Selkirk, fifth Earl of, his boyhood, 3, 4, 5, 6; at Edinburgh
University, 6-7; studies the conditions of life in the Highlands, 8,
14; succeeds to the title, 14; his scheme of emigration, 15-16, 27-8,
32, 35-6; his colony on Prince Edward Island, 16-18; at Baldoon Farm,
18-20; feted by fur merchants of Montreal, 20-1; his speech on national
defence in the House of Lords, 27; his marriage, 28; his efforts in
securing a grant of land in Assiniboia, 28-35; his colony at Red River,
55-63, 76-83; endeavours to persuade the government to send armed
assistance to his colony, 91-4; his message of encouragement, 94; his
relief expedition, 108, 110-11, 113, 115, 127-8; at Indian council on
Drummond Island, 112-13; hears of the Seven Oaks disaster and makes for
Fort William, 113-15, 118; takes possession of the fort and arrests the
partners of the North-West Company, 120-7;