He is large-hearted and bountiful, divides his find of game with his neighbors, and his shanty has, as he says, "a latch hanging outside the door," for any wanderer or passing stranger.
This many-sided notion of freedom belongs to all primitive peoples and societies.

Of the Red River Community the French half-breed was of the most unsubdued and restive type, for he followed the ways of the Indians, while the Selkirk Colonists and their descendants always professed to be farmers, and hunting was only their diversion.

Moreover, being of Scottish blood, they had been taught to fear God and honor the King.
We have seen that Governor Simpson had a plan in his mind for gaining control and preserving order in his own kingdom.

His idea of building fortified stone forts is chiefly seen in the cases of Upper and Lower Forts Garry.

Fort Garry was, as we have seen, well on the way to completion by the time of the French outbreak in connection with Larocque.