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The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba
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Length: 265 pages (397,334 characters)
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THE ROMANTIC SETTLEMENT OF LORD SELKIRK'S COLONISTS***
E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto)
Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17358-h.htm or 17358-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/3/5/17358/17358-h/17358-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/3/5/17358/17358-h.zip)
Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/romantic00brycuoftBi
THE ROMANTIC SETTLEMENT OF LORD SELKIRK'S COLONISTS
(The Pioneers of Manitoba)
by
DR. GEORGE BRYCE
Of Winnipeg
President of the Royal Society of Canada, etc., etc.
[Illustration: THOMAS, 5TH EARL OF SELKIRK, The Founder of Red River Colony, 1812. From copy of painting by Raeburn, obtained by author from St Mary's Isle, Lord Selkirk's seat.]
Toronto The Musson Book Company Limited "Copyrighted Canada, 1909, by The Musson Book Company, Limited, Toronto."
CONTENTS
Page. Chapter 1. Patriarch's Story 9 An Extinct Race. The Gay Frenchman. The Earlier Peoples. The Montreal Merchants and Men. The Dusky Riders of the Plain. The Stately Hudson's Bay Company.
Chapter 2. A Scottish Duel 33
Chapter 3. Across the Stormy Sea 44
Chapter 4. A Winter of Discontent 58
Chapter 5. First Foot on Red River Banks 69
Chapter 6. Three Desperate Years 80
Chapter 7. Fight and Flight 95
Chapter 8. No Surrender 107
Chapter 9. Seven Oaks Massacre 117
Chapter 10. Afterclaps 133
Chapter 11. The Silver Chief Arrives 142
Chapter 12. Soldiers and Swiss 152
Chapter 13. English Lion and Canadian Bear Lie Down Together 161
Chapter 14. Satrap Rule 170
Chapter 15. And the Flood Came 178
Chapter 16. The Jolly Governor 185
Chapter 17. The Oligarchy 194
Chapter 18. An Ogre of Justice 202
Chapter 19. A Half-Breed Patriot 210
Chapter 20. Sayer and Liberty 216
Chapter 21. Off to the Buffalo 224
Chapter 22. What the Stargazers Saw 232
Chapter 23. Apples of Gold 239
Chapter 24. Pictures of Silver 256
Chapter 25. Eden Invaded 276
Chapter 26. Riel's Rising 284
Chapter 27. Lord Strathcona's Hand 291
Chapter 28. Wolseley's Welcome 300
Chapter 29. Manitoba in the Making 307
Chapter 30. The Selkirk Centennial 315
Appendix 320
PREFACE
The present work tells the romantic story of the Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists in Manitoba, and is appropriate and timely in view of the Centennial celebration of this event which will be held in Winnipeg in 1912.
The author was the first, in his earlier books, to take a stand for justice to be done to Lord Selkirk as a Colonizer, and he has had the pleasure of seeing the current of all reliable history turned in Lord Selkirk's favor.
Dr. Doughty, the popular Archivist at Ottawa, has put at the author's disposal a large...
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E-text prepared by K. D. Thornton and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) from page images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto)
Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17358-h.htm or 17358-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/3/5/17358/17358-h/17358-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/7/3/5/17358/17358-h.zip)
Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/romantic00brycuoftBi
THE ROMANTIC SETTLEMENT OF LORD SELKIRK'S COLONISTS
(The Pioneers of Manitoba)
by
DR. GEORGE BRYCE
Of Winnipeg
President of the Royal Society of Canada, etc., etc.
[Illustration: THOMAS, 5TH EARL OF SELKIRK, The Founder of Red River Colony, 1812. From copy of painting by Raeburn, obtained by author from St Mary's Isle, Lord Selkirk's seat.]
Toronto The Musson Book Company Limited "Copyrighted Canada, 1909, by The Musson Book Company, Limited, Toronto."
CONTENTS
Page. Chapter 1. Patriarch's Story 9 An Extinct Race. The Gay Frenchman. The Earlier Peoples. The Montreal Merchants and Men. The Dusky Riders of the Plain. The Stately Hudson's Bay Company.
Chapter 2. A Scottish Duel 33
Chapter 3. Across the Stormy Sea 44
Chapter 4. A Winter of Discontent 58
Chapter 5. First Foot on Red River Banks 69
Chapter 6. Three Desperate Years 80
Chapter 7. Fight and Flight 95
Chapter 8. No Surrender 107
Chapter 9. Seven Oaks Massacre 117
Chapter 10. Afterclaps 133
Chapter 11. The Silver Chief Arrives 142
Chapter 12. Soldiers and Swiss 152
Chapter 13. English Lion and Canadian Bear Lie Down Together 161
Chapter 14. Satrap Rule 170
Chapter 15. And the Flood Came 178
Chapter 16. The Jolly Governor 185
Chapter 17. The Oligarchy 194
Chapter 18. An Ogre of Justice 202
Chapter 19. A Half-Breed Patriot 210
Chapter 20. Sayer and Liberty 216
Chapter 21. Off to the Buffalo 224
Chapter 22. What the Stargazers Saw 232
Chapter 23. Apples of Gold 239
Chapter 24. Pictures of Silver 256
Chapter 25. Eden Invaded 276
Chapter 26. Riel's Rising 284
Chapter 27. Lord Strathcona's Hand 291
Chapter 28. Wolseley's Welcome 300
Chapter 29. Manitoba in the Making 307
Chapter 30. The Selkirk Centennial 315
Appendix 320
PREFACE
The present work tells the romantic story of the Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists in Manitoba, and is appropriate and timely in view of the Centennial celebration of this event which will be held in Winnipeg in 1912.
The author was the first, in his earlier books, to take a stand for justice to be done to Lord Selkirk as a Colonizer, and he has had the pleasure of seeing the current of all reliable history turned in Lord Selkirk's favor.
Dr. Doughty, the popular Archivist at Ottawa, has put at the author's disposal a large...
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