The Swiss families on arrival were placed under tents nearby Fort Douglas.

As soon as possible many of the Swiss settlers were placed alongside the De Meurons on German Creek.

Good Mr.West, who had just been sent out as chaplain by the Hudson's Bay Company, in place of the minister of their own faith promised to the Scottish settlers, did a great stroke of work in marrying the young Swiss girls to the De Meuron bachelors of German Creek.

The description of the way in which the De Meurons invited families having young women in them to the wifeless cabins is ludicrous.
A modern "Sabine raid" was made upon the young damsels, who were actually carried away to the De Meuron homesteads.

The Swiss families which had the misfortune to have no daughters in them were left to languish in their comfortless tents.