Author: Harper's New Monthly Magazine; Louis Chetlain
Title: The Red River Colony
Description: N.P.: Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1879. Separated sheets, quarto (filed in), Pp47-55 removed from Harper's Magazine of 1879, with the magazine broken up and sold in its various articles. 120 grams. Good condition. Part of the second paragraph reads as follows: . . . Thoas Dundas, Earl of Selkirk, a distinguished Scotch Nobleman of great wealth, had purchased from the Hudson Bay Company a large tract of land in British America, extending from the Lake of the Woods and the Winnipeg River westward for nearly 200 miles, and from Lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba to the United States boundary, part of which tract is now embraced in the province of Manitoba, and in which are the fertile lands bordering on the Red and Assiniboine rivers. It formed a part of Rupert Land, named in honour of Prince Rupert, or Robert, of Bavaria, a cousin of King Charles II of England, and one of the founders and chief managers of the Hudson Bay Company. Rupert Land was somewhat indefinite in extent, embracing all that portion of British America that poured its waters into Hudson Bay, and was drained chiefly by the Great Wheale, Rupert, Abbitibbe, Albany, Severn, Winnipeg, Red, Assiniboine, Saskatchewan,and Churchill rivers. In extent it was almost equal to the United States prior to its accessions after the close of the Mexican war. All titles in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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