THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY
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"Copyrighted Canada, 1909, by The Musson Book Company, Limited, Toronto."
CONTENTS
| [Chapter 1.] Patriarch's Story
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. | [ 9] |
| [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 amount of Lord Selkirk's correspondence lately received by him, so that many new, interesting facts about the Settlers' coming are now published for the first time.
If we are to celebrate the Selkirk Centennial intelligently, it is essential to know the facts of the trials, oppressions and heartless persecutions through which the Settlers' passed, to learn what shameful treatment Lord Selkirk received from his enemies, and to trace the risefrom misery to comfort of the people of the Colony.
The story is chiefly confined to Red River Settlement as it existed—a unique community, which in 1870 became the present Province of Manitoba. It is a sympathetic study of what one writer has called—"Britain's One Utopia."