This practise long survived among them.

In repeating his promise of a clergyman, Lord Selkirk asserted to them: "Selkirk never forfeited his word." His work done among his Colonists, he left them never to see them again.
He went south from Fort Douglas to the United States, visited, it is said, St.Louis, came to the Eastern States, and rejoined in Montreal his Countess and children who had in his absence lived in great anxiety.
One of his daughters, afterwards Lady Isabella Hope, told the writer nearly thirty years ago that she as a girl remembered seeing Lord Selkirk as he returned from this long journey, coming around the Island into Montreal Harbor paddled by French voyageurs in swift canoes to his destination.

His attention was immediately given to law suits and actions brought against him in the courts of Upper Canada.

These legal conflicts originated from the troubles about the two centres--Fort Douglas and Fort William--where the collisions had taken place.

The influence of the Nor'-Westers in Montreal was so great that the U.E.
Loyalists of Upper Canada sympathised with them against the noble philanthropist.