Three hundred of the Selkirk Colonists and their children immediately gathered around Mr.Black, and though interrupted for a year by the great flood which we have described, erected in the following year, the stone Church of Kildonan, on the highway some five miles from Winnipeg.

With the help of a small grant from the Hudson's Bay Company, the Selkirk Colonists erected, free from debt, their church which still remains.

Two other churches were erected by the Presbyterians, and beside each a school.

For several years before the old Colony ceased Mr.Black conducted service in the Court House near Fort Garry, and in 1868, with the assistance of Canadian friends, erected the small Knox Church on Portage Avenue, in Winnipeg.

This building, though used, was not completed till after the arrival of the Canadian troops in 1870.
EARLY RED RIVER CULTURE.
Strange as it may seem, the isolated Red River Colony was far from being an illiterate community.