The Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of ManitobaWood, Louis Aubrey
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The Red River Colony: A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
Wood, Louis Aubrey
Manitoba -- History; Red River Settlement
De Meuron regiment, provides recruits for Red River Colony, 109-10,
122, 130.
D'Orsonnens, Captain, enlists with Lord Selkirk, 110; at Fort William,
120, 122, 123.
Drummond, Sir Gordon, refuses Lord Selkirk armed assistance, 91-2, 93.
Ellice, Edward, his bill to legalize the union of the North-West and
the Hudson Bay Companies, 140-1.
Family Compact, the, and Lord Selkirk, 134.
Fauché, Lieut., enlists with Lord Selkirk, 110; at Fort William, 122;
takes North-West Company partners to Montreal for trial, 125-7.
Findlay, William, an obdurate Orkneyman, 49.
Fletcher, Major, arbitrates between Lord Selkirk and the North-West
Company, 131.
Fort Daer, the Red River colonists' winter quarters on the Pembina, 58,
85.
Fort Douglas, in Colony Gardens, 85; evacuated, 102, 105; occupied by
Nor'westers, 128; retaken, 128.
Fort Gibraltar, the North-West Company post on the Red River, 55-6, 74,
75, 84; demolished, 87.
Fort Qu'Appelle, a North-West Company post, 88.
Fort William, 66-7, 113, 115; the Mecca of the North-West Company,
116-18; taken and occupied by Lord Selkirk, 123-4.
Fraser, Simon, explorer, his arrest at Fort William, 123, 124-5.
Glengarry Fencibles, provide recruits for Red River Colony, 110, 130.
Graffenreid, Lieut., enlists with Lord Selkirk, 110.
Grant, Charles, bribes Indians to waylay Laguimonière, 112 and note.
Grant, Cuthbert, attacks Colony Gardens, 77, 86; captures Brandon
House, 88, 89; leads in Seven Oaks massacre, 95, 99, 101-2, 105.
Heden, Michael, escapes at Seven Oaks, 95 n., 100, 102, 103, 104, 105;
and Lord Selkirk's safety, 119, 120.
Highlanders of Scotland, their loyalty, 9-10, 11; their conditions of
life, 9, 10-11; dispossessed of their heritage, 12-13; their
expatriation, 13-14, 16-17, 18-20, 27-8, 38-43, 61-3, 83.
Hillier, a magistrate at York Factory, 49.
Holt, Lieut., killed at Seven Oaks, 98.
Hudson Bay, Red River colonists winter on, 45-51, 62.
Hudson's Bay Company, 25-6, 80; and Lord Selkirk's emigration scheme,
17; their flawless charter, 22-3, 30; some early troubles, 28-9; their
grant of land to Lord Selkirk, 31-4; appoint a governor over
Assiniboia, 83; and purchase Lord Selkirk's rights, 137-8; their union
with the North-West Company, 140-1.
Indians, their relations with Red River Colony, 36, 54, 56, 57, 78, 89,
95, 102 n., 112-13.
Isle aux Erables, canoe disaster at, 126.
Johnson, Lionel, with Selkirk's settlers at Baldoon Farm, 19.
Jones, Captain John Paul, his raid on the British coasts, 1-3.
Katawabetay, a Chippewa chief, 74; meets Lord Selkirk, 112-13.
Keveny, Owen, arrives with party of Irish colonists at Colony Gardens,
58.
Kildonan parish, in Scotland, 61, 83; in Winnipeg, 129.
Kilkenny, Michael, escapes at Seven Oaks, 100.
Laguimonière, brings news of restoration of Colony Gardens to Lord
Selkirk, 93; waylaid and robbed on his return, 94, 112.
Lavigne, Augustin, with the Nor'westers at Seven Oaks, 99, 106.
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