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The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists: The Pioneers of Manitoba
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Publisher: Pasco Library
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE EARLIER PEOPLE.
A
PATRIARCH'S STORY.
This is the City of Winnipeg. Its growth has been wonderful. It is the high-
water mark of Canadian enterprise. Its chief thoroughfare, with asphalt
pavement, as it runs southward and approaches the Assiniboine River, has a
broad street diverging at right angles from it to the West. This is Broadway,
a most commodious avenue with four boulevards neatly kept, and four lines
of fine young Elm trees. It represents to us Unter den Linden of Berlin,
the German Capital.
The wide business thoroughfare Main Street, where it reaches the Assini-
boine River, looks out upon a stream, so called from the wild Assiniboine
tribe whose northern limit it was, and whose name implies the Sioux of
the Stony Lake. The Assiniboine River is as large as the Tiber at Rome, and
the color of the water justifies its being compared with the Yellow Tiber.
The Assiniboine falls into the Red River, a larger stream, also with tawny-
colored water. The point of union of these two rivers was long ago called by
3 GEORGE BRYCE
the French voyageurs Les Fourches, which we have translated into The
Forks.
One morning nearly forty years ago, the writer wandered eastward toward
Red River, from Main Street, down what is now called Lombard Street.
Here not far from the bank of the Red River, stood a wooden house, then
of the better class, but now left far behind by the brick and stone and steel
structures of modern Winnipeg.
The house still stands a stained and battered memorial of a past generation.
But on this October morning, of an Indian summer day, the air was so soft,
that it seemed to smell wooingly here, and through the gentle haze, was to
be seen sitting on his verandah, the patriarch of the village, who was as well
the genius of the place.
The old man had a fine gray head with the locks very thin, and with his form,
not tall but broad and comfortable to look upon, he occupied an easy chair.
The writer was then quite a young man fresh from College, and with a sim-
ple introduction, after the easy manner of Western Canada, proceeded to
hear the story of old Andrew McDermott, the patriarch of Winnipeg.
Yes, said Mr. McDermott, I was among those of the first year of Lord
Selkirk's immigrants. We landed from the Old Country, at York Factory, on
Hudson Bay. The first immigrants reached the banks of the Red River in
the year 1812.
I am a native of Ireland and embarkedwith OwenKeveny-a brightHibernian-
a clever writer, and speaker, who, poor fellow, was killed by the rival Fur
Company, and whose murderer, De Reinhard, was tried at Quebec. Of
course the greater number of Lord Selkirk's settlers were Scotchmen, but
I have always lived with them, known them, and find that they
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