The breath of the people was taken away by this demonstration of force, and a chronicler of the time says: "From the moment they arrived the high tone of lawless defiance and internal disaffection raised by our people against the laws and the authorities of the place were reduced to silence." Colonel Crofton, in command of the troops, was appointed Governor of the Settlement, and he proved a wise and honorable administrator.

The regiment gained golden opinions from the people, and as they spent during their short stay of two years, a sum of L15,000 in supplies, it was, indeed, a golden age for the hard-working Colonists.

The leaving of the regiment was regretted by the Colony.
Having now entered on a career of government by force, it would not do to let it drop.

Hence the authorities enlisted in Britain a number of old pensioners, and under command of Major Caldwell, who was also to act as Governor of the Settlement, sent out, in each of two successive years, some seventy of these discharged soldiers to act as guardians of the peace.

It was pretty well agreed that these men, to whom were given holdings of small pieces of land to the west of Fort Garry, now in the St.James District of Winnipeg, were simply imitators in conduct and disposition of the De Meurons, who had so vexed the Colonists.