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The Red River Colony (or Selkirk Settlement), also known as Assiniboia, was a colonization project set up in 1811 by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, on 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) of land in British North America. This land was granted to Douglas by the Hudson's Bay Company in the Selkirk Concession.
Selkirk is a town and historic royal burgh in the Scottish Borders council district of southeastern Scotland. It lies on the Ettrick Water, a tributary of the River Tweed. The people of the town are known as Souters, which means cobblers (shoe makers and menders). At the time of the 2011 census, Selkirk's population was 5,784. [2] [3]
A 1900 railroad map with more detail on the district. The (Second) District of Assiniboia was later created (1882) as a regional administrative district of Canada's North-West Territories . [ 2 ] Most of it was absorbed into the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905, except for the westernmost quarter, which became part of Alberta .
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Lord Selkirk signed a treaty with Chief Peguis that eventually became St. Peter’s Reserve in 1817, but Chief Peguis’s people would eventually lose the land and forced to move to the current Peguis First Nation by 1930s [4] when Selkirk’s colony became the province of Manitoba in 1870, the area then became St. Peter’s Settlement and eventually merge into Selkirk, Manitoba.
The fort was soon retaken by Selkirk's men and there was a short period of relative peace. Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk lived at the fort during his visit to the Selkirk Settlement (Red River Colony) in the summer of 1817. It was later used as a trading post and was the residence of the Governor of Assiniboia.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:21, 20 September 2009: 687 × 769 (109 KB): Jeangagnon {{Information |Description={{en|1=Landing of the Selkirk Settlers, Red River, 1812 J.E. Schaflein HBCA, PAM P-388 (N11312) HBC’s 1924 calendar illustration Hudson’s Bay Company Archives Provincial Archives of Manitoba}} |Source=Scan page of Hudson's B
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