Accordingly the Governor ordered a single log hut to be constructed, and this being done, in it the prisoner was confined.

Not a day had entirely passed when a rebellion arose among some of his compatriots--the Scottish contingent from Orkney and Glasgow--and a band of thirteen of them surrounded the newly built hut, set it on fire and as it went up in smoke rescued the prisoner.
The men were arrested and were brought before Macdonell and Hillier, sitting as magistrates.

This was about the end of February.

The rebels, however, defied the authorities, departed carrying Finlay with them and getting possession of a house took it defiantly for their own use.
During their remaining sojourn at York Factory they subsisted on provisions obtained at the Factory itself and carried by themselves from the post to the encampment.

Governor Macdonell, meantime, decided to send these rebellious spirits home to Britain for punishment, and not allow them to go on to Red River.
The possession by the rioters of some five or six stand of firearms, was felt to be a menace to the peace of the encampment.