The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Red River Colony
by Louis Aubrey Wood
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About this eBook
- Author
- Wood, Louis Aubrey, 1883-1955
- Title
- The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1001: North America local history: Canada
- Subject
- Manitoba -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30040
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30040
- Release Date
- September 20, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk. From the painting at St Mary's Isle — THE RED RIVER COLONY
- 2.A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba — BY
- 3.LOUIS AUBREY WOOD — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1915 — TO MY FATHER
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I — ST MARY'S ISLE — CHAPTER II — SELKIRK, THE COLONIZER — Place D'Armes, Montreal, in 1807. From a water-colour sketch after Dillon in M'Gill University Library. — CHAPTER III — THE PURSE-STRINGS LOOSEN — Joseph Frobisher, a partner in the North-West Company. From the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. — CHAPTER IV — STORNOWAY—AND BEYOND — CHAPTER V — WINTERING ON THE BAY — The country of Lord Selkirk's Letters. — CHAPTER VI — RED RIVER AND PEMBINA — Hunting the Buffalo. From a painting by George Catlin. — Plan of Red River Colony — CHAPTER VII — THE BEGINNING OF STRIFE — CHAPTER VIII — COLIN ROBERTSON, THE AVENGER — CHAPTER IX — SEVEN OAKS — CHAPTER X — LORD SELKIRK'S JOURNEY — CHAPTER XI — FORT WILLIAM — Fort William. From an old print in the John Ross Robertson Collection, Toronto Public Library. — Simon M'Tavish, Founder of the North-West Company. From a water-colour drawing in M'Gill University Library. — William M'Gillivray, a partner in the North-West Company. From a photograph in the M'Gill University Library. — CHAPTER XII — THE PIPE OF PEACE — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — PRIMARY SOURCES — SECONDARY MATERIAL — INDEX
- 6.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED — Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
- 7.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS — PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE — PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION — PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA — PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA — PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST — PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM — PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY — PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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