The work of rebuilding other houses which McLeod had not been able to overtake now went on, and there was the greatest anxiety to hear of Lord Selkirk's plans.
The Earl of Selkirk had not become in the slightest degree discouraged.
Opposition and failure seemed but to inspire him the more.

On the return of Miles Macdonell as a prisoner to Montreal in the hands of the Nor'-Wester emmissaries, the founder immediately sought for a competent successor to Macdonell, and determined to send out the best and strongest party of settlers that had yet been gathered.
He appointed, backed by all the influence of the Hudson's Bay Company, a retired officer, Captain Robert Semple.

The new Governor was of American origin, born in Philadelphia, but had been in the British army.

He was a distinctly high-class man, though Masson's estimate is probably true--"A man not very conciliatory, it is true, but intelligent, honorable and a man of integrity." He was an author of some note, but as it proved, too good or too inexperienced a man for the lawless region to which he was sent.
It would have been almost useless to despatch a new Governor to the Red River settlement unless there had also been obtained a number of settlers to fill the place of those so skillfully led away by Duncan Cameron.

Lord Selkirk now secured the best band of Emigrants attainable.
These were from a rural parish on the East Coast of Sutherlandshire in Scotland.