This grew well and supplied food for them, and in the next two or three years no less than two hundred and four houses were built.

The Settlement, now freed from dissension, had not gone through its fiery ordeal in vain.

The news of a home for themselves and their dusky wives and half-breed children, had spread over the whole of Rupert's Land, and now began, what Lieutenant-Governor Archibald, the first Governor of Manitoba, afterward spoke of as the floating down the rivers with their wives and children of the Hudson's Bay Company officers and men to the paradise of Red River.

The great majority of the employees of the Company were Orkneymen.

They gradually took up the most of the Red River lots surveyed, lying below Kildonan, and forming the Parishes of St.Paul's and St.Andrew's on Red River, down to St.Peter's Indian Reserve and St.James' and Headingly up the Assiniboine.