This spot they chose, and the locality at the foot of Rupert Street is marked in the City of Winnipeg.

A stone's throw further north along the bank of Red River, Fort Douglas was afterwards built, around which circles much of this Romantic Settlement Story.
This spot was the centre of the First Settlement of Rupert's Land and to this first party peculiar interest attaches.
There can only be one Columbus among all the navigators who crossed from Europe to America; there can only be one Watt among all the inventors and improvers of the steam engine; only one Newton among those who discuss the great discovery of the basal law of gravitation.
There can be only one first party of those who laid the foundation of collective family life in what is now the Province of Manitoba--and what is wider--in the great Western Canada of to-day.

There may have been not many wise men, not many mighty, not many noble among them, but the long and stormy voyage which they made, the dangers they endured on the sea, the marvellous land journey they accomplished, and their taking "seisin of the land," to use William the Conqueror's phrase, entitles them to recognition and to respectful memory..