Grant, Charles, bribes Indians to waylay Laguimoniere, 112 and note.
Grant, Cuthbert, attacks Colony Gardens, 77, 86; captures Brandon
House, 88, 89; leads in Seven Oaks massacre, 95, 99, 101-2, 105.
Heden, Michael, escapes at Seven Oaks, 95 n., 100, 102, 103, 104, 105;
and Lord Selkirk's safety, 119, 120.
Highlanders of Scotland, their loyalty, 9-10, 11; their conditions of
life, 9, 10-11; dispossessed of their heritage, 12-13; their
expatriation, 13-14, 16-17, 18-20, 27-8, 38-43, 61-3, 83.
Hillier, a magistrate at York Factory, 49.
Holt, Lieut., killed at Seven Oaks, 98.
Hudson Bay, Red River colonists winter on, 45-51, 62.
Hudson's Bay Company, 25-6, 80; and Lord Selkirk's emigration scheme,
17; their flawless charter, 22-3, 30; some early troubles, 28-9; their
grant of land to Lord Selkirk, 31-4; appoint a governor over
Assiniboia, 83; and purchase Lord Selkirk's rights, 137-8; their union
with the North-West Company, 140-1.
Indians, their relations with Red River Colony, 36, 54, 56, 57, 78, 89,
95, 102 n., 112-13.
Isle aux Erables, canoe disaster at, 126.
Johnson, Lionel, with Selkirk's settlers at Baldoon Farm, 19.
Jones, Captain John Paul, his raid on the British coasts, 1-3.
Katawabetay, a Chippewa chief, 74; meets Lord Selkirk, 112-13.
Keveny, Owen, arrives with party of Irish colonists at Colony Gardens,
58.
Kildonan parish, in Scotland, 61, 83; in Winnipeg, 129.
Kilkenny, Michael, escapes at Seven Oaks, 100.
Laguimoniere, brings news of restoration of Colony Gardens to Lord
Selkirk, 93; waylaid and robbed on his return, 94, 112.
Lavigne, Augustin, with the Nor'westers at Seven Oaks, 99, 106.
Liverpool, Lord, and Selkirk's charges against the North-West Company,
136.
Macdonald, Archibald, deputy-governor of Assiniboia, 73.
M'Donald, John, his arrest at Fort William, 122-3, 124-5.
M'Donald, Capt. Roderick, Selkirk's agent in Glasgow, 37-8.
Macdonell, Alexander, a partner of the North-West Company, 68, 86, 87,
88; destroys Colony Gardens, 69, 73-4, 77-79; organizes a raid on Fort
Douglas, 89, 94-5; and the massacre at Seven Oaks, 102-103, 105, 107;
his plot to assassinate Lord Selkirk, 118-19.
Macdonell, Anthony, taken prisoner at Seven Oaks, 100.
Macdonell, Capt. Miles, first governor of Assiniboia, 36-7, 74; his
herculean task, 40-2, 44; establishes winter quarters on the Nelson,
45-6, 47; his opinion of the emigrants, 47-51; officially inaugu
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