It is worthy of note that many of these Indian women became most true and affectionate spouses.

With the voyageurs and laborers the conditions were different.

They could not leave the country, they had become a part of it, and their marriages with the Indian women were bona fide.

Thus it was that during the space from the time of Curry until the arrival of the Selkirk Colonists upwards of forty years had elapsed, and around the wide spread posts of the Fur Trading Companies, especially around those of the prairie, there had grown up families, which were half French and half Indian, or half English and half Indian.

When it could be afforded these children were sent for a time to Montreal, to be educated, and came back to their native wilds.