Ellice, Edward, his bill to legalize the union of the North-West and the Hudson Bay Companies,140-1.
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.
Glengarry Fencibles, provide recruits for Red River Colony,110,130.
Graffenreid, Lieut., enlists with Lord Selkirk,110.
Grant, Charles, bribes Indians to waylay Laguimonière,112and 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,95n.,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,36,54,56,57,78,89,95,102n.,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.
Laguimonière, 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 inaugurates Red River Colony,55-6; erects Fort Daer,57-8; his disastrous proclamation,63-64,65,67; surrenders himself to Cameron,76-7,93; sent to Red River in advance of Lord Selkirk,111,113.
M'Gillivray, William, a partner of the North-West Company,66n.; his arrest at Fort William,120-1,124-5; an expert canoeman,125-6; favours union with the Hudson's Bay Company,140.
M'Intosh, James, in the defence of Colony Gardens,79.
M'Kay, Daniel, escapes at Seven Oaks,100,105.
Mackenzie, Sir Alexander, explorer, and Lord Selkirk,15,31.
Mackenzie, Captain, and the nine-pound shot,41.
M'Kenzie, Kenneth, his arrest at Fort William,121,124-5; drowned,126.
M'Lean, Alexander,72; killed at Seven Oaks,100.
M'Lean, Hugh, his defence of Colony Gardens,78,79.
M'Leod, Archibald Norman, a partner of the North-West Company,94; as magistrate of Indian Territories examines evicted Red River colonists,103-5; at Fort Douglas,105-7.
M'Leod, John, his gallant defence of Colony Gardens,77-78,79; his guardianship,82-83,85.
M'Loughlin, Dr John, his arrest at Fort William,121,124-5.
M'Nab, John, buys Baldoon Farm from Lord Selkirk,20.
M'Tavish, Simon, founder of the North-West Company,20,117.
Matthey, Captain, enlists with Lord Selkirk,110; at Fort William,122.
Métis,54. See Bois Brûlés.
Montgomery, Sir James, brother-in-law of Lord Selkirk,136.
Napoleon I,16; his Berlin Decree,29.
Nelson river, New Year celebrations on the,48-9.
New Nation, the,85,86. See Bois Brûlés.
North-West Company,23-5,117; entertain Lord Selkirk in Montreal,20-1; their opposition to his colonizing schemes,31-2,38,40-1,55,67,133; their antagonism towards Red River Colony,55-6,60,63-4,65-6,67; their efforts to destroy the colony,74-5,89-90; the Seven Oaks massacre,95-101; trial of partners at York,134-5; union with the Hudson's Bay Company,140-1.
Norway House, a Hudson's Bay Company post,52,78.
Ottawas, waylay Lord Selkirk's messenger,112.
Pambrun, Pierre, held prisoner by the Nor'westers,88-9,102.
Pangman, Peter, and Cuthbert Grant,88.
Pelham, Lord, and Selkirk's scheme of emigration,15,16,17.
Powell, Chief Justice, and the trial of Lord Selkirk,134; and the Nor'westers,135.
Prince Edward Island, Selkirk's colony on,17-18.
Pritchard, John, taken prisoner at Seven Oaks,95n.,97,98; acts as mediator,101-2,104,105.
Red River Colony,32,141; its extent and position,33-4,132; conditions of settlement,35,110; types of settlers,37-8,39,40,42,47,48,51,63,83,108-10,136-7; the departure of first contingent of colonists from Stornoway,38-43; reach Hudson Bay,44-5; and winter on the Nelson,45-51; journey to Red River,51-4; the official inauguration of the colony,55-6; relations with the Indians,54,56,57,74,78,89,95,102n.,112-13,132; dire straits of colonists in winter,57-8,59-60,85; the arrival of Irish colonists,58; Colony Gardens built,59; the arrival of Sutherland men,61-63; exodus of the settlers,76,78; Colony Gardens destroyed,77-9; restored,81-82; a fourth contingent of colonists,83; the Seven Oaks massacre,95-102; the second expulsion,102-4; Lord Selkirk arrives,128-30; the locust plagues,139-40; comes into its own,141. See Highlanders.
Reed, Collector, a tool of the Nor'westers,40.
Robertson, Colin, his grievance against the North-West Company,37,80-1; restores Colony Gardens,81-2; his revenge at Fort Gibraltar,84-5,86-7,101,104,133.
Robinson, J. B., attorney-general of Upper Canada,127,134.
Rogers, Captain, killed at Seven Oaks,98,100.
Rupert's Land, Lord Selkirk's Colony in,32,132.
Saint Anne's chapel, a halting-place of the coureurs de bois,25.
St Mary's Isle, the Selkirk mansion on,2-3,4.
Saulteaux, and Red River Colony,78,89,102n.,132; and the North-West Company,106.
Scott, Sir Walter, his friendship with Lord Selkirk,7,27,136,138.
Selkirk, fourth Earl of,2; a patron of letters,5.
Selkirk, fifth Earl of, his boyhood,3,4,5,6; at Edinburgh University,6-7; studies the conditions of life in the Highlands,8,14; succeeds to the title,14; his scheme of emigration,15-16,27-8,32,35-6; his colony on Prince Edward Island,16-18; at Baldoon Farm,18-20; fêted by fur merchants of Montreal,20-1; his speech on national defence in the House of Lords,27; his marriage,28; his efforts in securing a grant of land in Assiniboia,28-35; his colony at Red River,55-63,76-83; endeavours to persuade the government to send armed assistance to his colony,91-4; his message of encouragement,94; his relief expedition,108,110-11,113,115,127-8; at Indian council on Drummond Island,112-13; hears of the Seven Oaks disaster and makes for Fort William,113-15,118; takes possession of the fort and arrests the partners of the North-West Company,120-7; arrives at Colony Gardens,128-9,130; receives the name of 'Silver Chief' and concludes a treaty with the Indians,131-3; his trial,131,133,134; his charges against the North-West Company,70,87,134-6; his death,137; his character,5,7,14,120,131,138-9.
Selkirk, sixth Earl of,92,137.
Semple, Robert, governor-in-chief in Assiniboia,84,86,87,95,135; killed at Seven Oaks,95-9.
Seven Oaks, the massacre of,95-102and note,130; the trial of Nor'westers,135.
Sherbrooke, Sir John, governor of Canada,114,130-1,134-135.
Sherwood, counsel for Nor'westers,135.
Spencer, John, enforces Governor Macdonell's decree on the Nor'westers,65-6.
Stornoway, the departure of emigrants from,38-43.
Strachan, Rev. John, his antagonism to Lord Selkirk,134.
Sutherland, George,88,89; escapes at Seven Oaks,100.
Sutherland, Elder James, authorized to baptize and perform the marriage ceremony at Colony Gardens,84.