The Fort was delivered over to Cuthbert Grant, who gave receipts on each sheet of the inventory signed 'Cuthbert Grant, acting for the North-West Company.' I remained at Fort Douglas till the evening of the 22nd, when all proceeded down the river--the settlers, a second time on their journey into exile.
"The Colonists, it is true, had little now to leave.

They were generally employed in agricultural pursuits, in attending to their farms, and the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company in their ordinary avocations.

They lived in tents or in huts.

In 1816 at Red River there was but one residence, the Governor's which was in Fort Douglas.

The settlers had lived in houses previous to 1815, but in that year these had been burnt in the attack that had been made upon them.