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].