Red River Settlement Papers In The Canadian Archives Relating To The Pioneers Scholars Choice Edition

Author : Chester Martin
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ISBN 13 : 9781332312696
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Red River Settlement written by Chester Martin and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Red River Settlement: Papers in the Canadian Archives Relating to the Pioneers To this third class belonged all those who reached the Forks with Macdonell on August 30, 1812. Selkirk, by the terms of his grant of Assiniboia, was under contract to engage a quota of servants for the fur trade of the Company. The separation between Company and Settlement, it will be seen, was not ultimately made by Macdonell until he was actually on the way to the Settlement. Even then the "enclosed Return" of the twenty-three men mentioned in the report to Selkirk is not at present to be found, though a list of eighteen is seen in Macdonell's handwriting on a stray sheet in the Macdonell Papers. Three of the others, we arc told, were 'experienced' men of the Company hired at Oxford House; one was an Indian mentioned by name; the other may possibly have been John McLeod, the young Scottish employee of the Company, whom Macdonell sought to secure for the Settlement, but who was sent by the Company's officers to Turtle River after the official return was made to Selkirk, but probably before Macdonell's list in No. 5 was compiled. Macdonell had reached Hudson's Bay in September, 1811, and arrived at the Forks August 30, 1812. The second expedition had sailed from Sligo on June 24,1812, under Owan Keveny, and appeared at Red River a little less than two months after Macdonell's arrival. Here again, the full official returns, to be identified, as Keveny wrote to Selkirk, by the 'letter S' placed 'opposite the persons names whom I think the best to be put on the establishment of the settlement, ' arc wanting, The list, however, given in Selkirk Papers, Vol. 2, pp. 560-562, and endorsed '0. Keveny's Return of men classed' would seem to be reliably complete; the more so as the number of boats specified at the end of the list would seem to correspond with those mentioned in Keveny's letter of September 8. All the lists I have ventured to submit are exact copies, of the originals, as far as it is possible to reproduce them in print. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.