These were made up of somewhat less than two hundred Selkirk Colonists, about one hundred De Meurons, a considerable number of French Voyageurs and Freemen, Swiss Colonists perhaps eighty, and the remainder Orkney, employees of the Hudson's Bay Company.

The Colony was, however, beginning to organize itself.

The accounts of the French settlers are very vague, an occasional name flitting across the page of history.

One family still found on Red River banks, gains celebrity as possessing the first white woman who came to Rupert's Land.

With her husband she had gone to Edmonton in -- --, and had wandered over the prairies.