Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 54
n, in Sutherlandshire, were induced by the Earl of Selkirk to seeka new home in the centre of the American wilderness, in the charteredterritory of the Hudson Bay Company. By purchase or by proxy, the earl,himself a large proprietor, had obtained control of the administration ofthe company in… … FORT GARRY.* the Red and the Assiniboin rivers. A party of the Highlanders, scantilyfurnished for the rough experiences before them, arrived at York Factory,on the bay, in the autumn, and there they were compelled to winter. Nottill the following autumn, 1812, did they reach their destination at…
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