Recall the troubles of the Nelson Encampment as they reach him in letters and reports.

Think of the misery of knowing thousands of miles away that his Colonists were starving, were being imprisoned, banished, seduced from their allegiance, and in one notable case that men of honor, education and standing to the number of twenty, were massacred, while he, in St.
Mary's Isle, in Montreal, or in Fort William, fretted his soul because he could not reach them with deliverance.
[Illustration: MARBLE BUST OF EARL OF SELKIRK, THE FOUNDER By Chantrey, obtained by author from St.Mary's Isle, Lord Selkirk's seat.] The world looked coldly on and said, "A visionary Scottish nobleman! a dreamer a hundred years before his time! Is it worth while ?" while he himself saw a dream of sunshine when he visited his Colonists on Red River, when he made allocations for their separate homes for them, when he pledged his honor and estate that the settlers might in time be independent, and when he made religious provision for both his Protestant and Catholic settlers, yet think of the unexampled ferocity with which he was attacked upon his return to Upper Canada, in law suits, and illegal processes, so that his estates became heavily encumbered, so that he went to France to pine away and die.

The world failed to see any glamour in him, and carelessly said, what does it profit?
Folly has its reward.
Yet the answer.

Here is Manitoba to-day, it is the fruitage of all that bitter sowing time.

Next year Manitoba will be in the fortieth year of its history.