The river was the only resource, and from the scarceness of hooks the supply of fish obtainable was rather scanty.
As the Colonists and their leader were strangers they desired leisure to select a suitable location for their buildings.

For the time being their camp was at the Forks, on the east side of the river, a little north of the mouth of the Assiniboine.
The Governor, Miles Macdonell, on the 4th of September, summoned three of the North-West Company gentlemen, the free Canadians beside whom they were encamped, and a number of the Indians to a spectacle similar to that enacted by St.Lawson, at Sault Ste.

Marie, nearly a hundred and fifty years before.

The Nor'-Westers had not permitted their employees to cross the river.

Facing, as he did, Fort Gibraltar, across the river, the Governor directed the patent of Lord Selkirk to his vast concession to be read, "delivering and seizin were formally taken," and Mr.Heney translated some part of the Patent into French for the information of the French Canadians.