. The Selkirk settlement and the settlers. A concise history of the Red River Country from its discovery, including information extracted from Original Documents lately discovered and notes obtained from Selkirk Settlement Colonists . successful trader, and for manyyears a member of the Council of Assini-boine under the Hudsons Bay Companysadministration, as well as a magistrate. Hewas married to Mary Maclean, whom hesurvived 23 years. He died on the 20thAugust, 1880, leaving a family of eight tomorn his death : Adam, Alexander, Rob-ert, John and Roderick, and Mrs. AngusHenderson, Mrs. John Mc
. The Selkirk settlement and the settlers. A concise history of the Red River Country from its discovery, including information extracted from Original Documents lately discovered and notes obtained from Selkirk Settlement Colonists . successful trader, and for manyyears a member of the Council of Assini-boine under the Hudsons Bay Companysadministration, as well as a magistrate. Hewas married to Mary Maclean, whom hesurvived 23 years. He died on the 20thAugust, 1880, leaving a family of eight tomorn his death : Adam, Alexander, Rob-ert, John and Roderick, and Mrs. AngusHenderson, Mrs. John McKay and Mills. Illl c; JOHN POLSON, OF KILDONAN, MAN. I was born in 1810 01 thereabouts, inKildonan, Sootl&nd, and came out withLord Selkirks settlers in 1815. I remember well the seven oak treeswhich gave the name to the locality, whereGovernor Semple and his men were killedby the half breeds, in l^Hi, and have many were buried in one large grave, on theafterwards removed to St. Johns church-yard. One body, of a man that was killedthen, was buried on McDonalds lot, in St. Johns, and the grave was oared for a longwhile, but is now plowed over and the sitelost sight of. There was an Indian burial uioiind on the. southwest side of what is now called Loganscrook, and on the property to-day ownedby ex-Mayor Logan. There was a clump oftrees at the spot when the grave was do not remember that their bodies werea time shot pheasants (grouse) from Governor Semple and some of his people south side of Seven Oaks creek, near tin:trail, but it, also, has been plowed over.^yhen people spoke of the Forks, in oldtimes, they referred to the point of landon the north side of the Assiniboine, wherethat stream flows into the Red. 1 neverheard the south side called the Forks. Jhave always lived on this lot, and have 44 Im Selkirk Settlement wi> the Settlers. never been farther away than Portage laPrairie or Pembina since the troublesin 1816. 1 remember Fort Gib
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