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Title: The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists
The Pioneers of Manitoba

Author: George Bryce

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Language: English

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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 Disconten