There was one characteristic of this library that it contained in its catalogue very few works of fiction.
LITERARY CLUBS.
In addition to libraries we find that at a later date in the history of the Settlement, literary clubs were formed.

Bishop Anderson and his sister, who arrived in Red River in 1849, were instrumental in forming a reading club for mutual improvement, for which the leading magazines were ordered.
EDUCATION.
But we must now speak of more decided organization for the promotion of culture in Red River.

The Selkirk settlers had now (1821) gained a footing in the land and the banks of the Red River had become the paradise of retired officers of the fur-trading companies.

Happy families were growing up in the homes of the Settlement and education was necessary.

A settled community made it possible for the churches and church societies in the homeland to do Christian work, both among the Indians and the white people, and to these institutions the Settlement was indebted for the first educational efforts made.
COMMON SCHOOLS.
The Rev.John West, the first Episcopal missionary who arrived, in 1820, and his successors, the Rev.David Jones and Archdeacon Cochrane, as far as they could, organized common schools on the parochial system.