2; settlers land at York
Factory, 153; and winter there, 154; set out for Red River, June 1,
1812, 155; the first winter on the Red River, 157; the encampment at
Pembina, 158; return to the Forks, 158; buildings erected a mile north
of Fort Gibraltar, 159; second party of colonists sail from Stornoway,
159; ship-fever breaks out, 159; reach Red River, 1813, 159; first
attempts at agriculture, 160; opposition of North West Company, 161-164;
winter again at Pembina, 161-162; third party of settlers arrive, 1814,
163; a number of colonists abandon the Red River and settle in Upper
Canada, 163; the remainder are driven north by the half-breeds and
settle at Jack River, 163; brought back by Colin Robertson, 165; Robert
Semple brings out party of Highlanders, 164; beginnings of education and
religion, 165-166; Miles Macdonell's proclamation, 169; retaliatory
measures of North West Company, 172-176; again winter at Fort Daer
(Pembina), 178; Fort Gibraltar captured and dismantled, 178-179; Seven
Oaks affair, 180-181; surrender of Fort Douglas, 182; Selkirk comes to
the rescue, 191; brings back the settlers, 191; surveys ordered, roads
and bridges built, 192; Commissioner Coltman sent to Red River, 195; his
investigation, 196; Coltman returns to Quebec, 196; his report, 196;
trial of Charles Rimhart, 197; Hudson's Bay Company relieves Selkirk's
heirs of the responsibility of maintaining the colony, 222; agricultural
experiments, 222; Adam Thorn appointed recorder, 245; stirs up trouble,
246-247; local governor appointed, 247; arrival of Bishop Anderson,
1849, 270; Simpson's evidence on conditions in the colony, 273-278;
population, 1870, 286. =B= Isbister's work on behalf of, 212; deputation
from, in England, 212; George Brown's interest in, 212-213. =Md= Plague
of grasshoppers in, in 1868, 155; had population of about ten thousand
persons at Confederation, 157. _See also_ Selkirk; Assiniboia. =Bib.=:
Bryce, _Romantic History of Lord Selkirk's Colonists_; Begg, _Creation
of Manitoba_; Hargrave, _Red River_; Ross, _Red River Settlement_; Bell,
_The Selkirk Settlement_; MacBeth, _The Selkirk Settlers in Real Life_;
Selkirk, _Statement Respecting the Settlement upon the Red River;
Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries_.

=Red River Rebellion.= _See_ Riel Rebellion, 1869-1870.

=Redistribution Bill.= =Md= Bill brought in by Macdonald in 1882, to
adjust representation in House, 273; Blake on, 274; description of, 274;
_Gl