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The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk’s Colonists

CHAPTER II
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Lord Selkirk visited Canada by way of New York.

To a man of his imaginative disposition, the fur trade appealed irresistibly.

The picturesque brigades of the voyageurs hieing away for the summer up the Ottawa toward the land of which Mackenzie had written, "the Nor'-Wester" garb of capote and moccassin and snowshoe, and the influence plainly given by this the only remunerative industry of Montreal, caught his fancy.

Then as a British peer and a Scottish Nobleman, the fun-loving but hard-headed Scottish traders of Montreal took him to their hearts.

He met them at their convivial gatherings, he heard the chanson sung by voyageurs, and the "habitant" caught his fancy.


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