These steamers were run on the Red River.] Until this time of arrivals there had been no village of Winnipeg.

The first building back from the McDermott, Ross and Logan buildings on the bank of Red River, was on the corner of Main and Portage Avenue.

Here gathered those, who may be spoken of as free traders, being rivals of the Hudson's Bay Company Store at Fort Garry.

Another village began a few years after at Point Douglas on Main Street, near the Canadian Pacific Railway Station of to-day, while at St.John's, on Main Street, was another nucleus.

These were in existence when the old order passed away in 1870, but they are all absorbed into the City of Winnipeg of to-day.