In addition, I took the cardinal facts from two other sources hitherto untold; (1) from Colin Robertson’s confidential letters to Selkirk; (2) from Coltman’s report to the Canadian Government and Sherbooke’s confidential report to the British Government--all in manuscript. In addition there are the printed Government Reports (including Coltman’s) and Trials and Archives, but I find in these public reports much has been suppressed, which the confidential records reveal. I am again indebted to Abbé Dugas for the legend of Lajimoniere’s trip East. Events thicken so fast at this stage of the H. B. C. and N. W. C. fight, space does not permit record of all the bloody affrays, such for instance as the killing of Slater, the H. B. C. man, at Abbittibbi, the death of Johnstone at Isle a la Crosse, or the violence there when Peter Skene Ogden drove the Indians from the H. B. C. * * * * * The name of the armed schooner, which was to patrol Lake Winnipeg to drive the Nor’Westers off, Coltman gives as _Cathullin_, and a personal letter of Lieut. Holte (H. B. C.) declares that he was to be commander. * * * * * MacDonell’s proclamations seem to have been feudalism run mad. In July of 1814, he actually forbade natives to bark trees for canoes and wigwams, or to cut large wood for camp fires. Then followed his notices ordering the N. W. C. to move their forts. * * * * * Howse, the explorer, was at this time in charge of Isle a la Crosse. * * * * * The H. B. C. colonists, who sided with Cameron and carried across to the N. W. C. the four brass cannon, four swivels, one howitzer--were George Bannerman, Angus Gunn, Hugh Bannerman, Donald McKinnon, Donald McDonald, George Campbell. Robert Gunn, John Cooper, Angus McKay, Andrew McBeth and John Matheson opposed giving the arms to Cameron and were loyal to Selkirk. * * * * * Peter Fidler’s Journal (manuscript) gives details of 1815 at Fort Douglas. * * * * * When the colony was dispersed in June, 1815, it consisted of thirteen men and their families--forty persons. The N. W. C. took no part in the flight of the colonists to Lake Winnipeg. It was the Half-breeds who ordered them to leave Red River. * * * * * The Colony Buildings burnt were four houses grouped as the fort, five farm houses, barns, stables, a mill and eighteen settlers’ cabins. This was not done by order of the N. W. C. but by the Plains Rangers. It appeared in N. W. C. records that as high as £100 was paid some of the colonists to desert Red River. * * * * *