Although Selkirk was a humanitarian, he also realized a colony would offer him some ... The Saulteaux natives helped the Red River settlers survive their first, inter in Canada.

The North West Company had bitterly opposed settlement around Red River from the start because ... governor of Lord Selkirk's colony of Assiniboia, in Canada: A People's History.

This film tells the story of the Red River settlement, now the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The pioneer venture of Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, to establish a colony brought opposition from the ...