The Selkirk Settlement
,. ' 1- ~' THE SELKIRK SETTLEMENT AND THE SETTLERS. A CONCISE HISTORY OF THE RED RIVER COUNTRY FRO :t.![ ITS DI$COVERY, Including /nfol·u~rttion K-ctractlld from Original Docwnents Lately .Discove;·ed and Notes obtained from SELKIRK SETTLEMENT COLONISTS. Ey CHARLES N. EELL, F.R.G.S., Honorary Correspond lag Member of the Royal ~cott1sh _Geogrf~:phic.al Society, Ha~ilton A~'3?Ciation, Chkag·o Academy of Science, Buffalo Htstoncal Soctety, Htstonan of Wolsdey s ExpeditiOnary Force Association, etc., etc. Authm· of "Our Northern Waters" "Na\'h,ation of Hudson's Bay and Strait," HSomt! I-Ii~torival Names and Places of Northwest Canada," "Red River Setticment History,"" Mound-lmilder:-s in Manitoba." "Prehistoric Remains in the Canadian ~orthwest," "With the Half-breed Buffalo Hunters," etc., etc. \VJ:-I:'>ll'E": l'Jtl~TED _-\'1' THE oi<'FICE UF "THE COM!\IERCJAL,'' ,J_\:\l£S S'l'. _L\S1'. 1887. I I By CH.!RLEs X. BELL, F.JI.u.:.;, HISTORY OF FUR TRADE. Red River settlement, and stood at the About 1736 La V erandyre, a French-Can north end of the Slough at what is now arlian, established on the Red river a known as East Selkirk village. Mr. Donald trading post, which was certainly the first l\1 ut-ray, one of the Selkirk colonists, in occasion that white men had a fixed abode forms me that he slept at the ruins of in the lower Red River V!~.lley. After 1710 such a place in the fall of 1815, when the English merchants and traders of arriving in thts country.
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