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The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk’s Colonists

CHAPTER XXIV
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For a long time all the children in the colony called her 'Marraine.' "M.

Provencher announced that from the next day the missionaries would begin their work and that the settlers ought to begin at the same time to work at the erection of a home for them.
"M.

Lajimoniere was one of the first to meet at the place selected and to commence preparing the materials for the building.

The work progressed so rapidly that the house was ready for occupation by the end of October.
"Madame Lajimoniere rendered every assistance in her power to the missionaries." HARGRAVE'S TALE.
With a few changes we shall allow an old friend of the writer, J.J.
Hargrave, long an official of the Hudson's Bay Company, to give the tale of the Church of England in Red River Settlement.

"As we have seen, the Rev.John West came from England to Red River as chaplain of the Hudson's Bay Company.


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