Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...

;XlTlAPPENDIX.near Red River, in particular, were always kind andobliging, and seamed better disposed towards the settlersthan towards the North -Wesi Company: they evencontinued to hunt as usual for the tettlerSj, after theCanadians and Indians of the half-breed, under theinfluence of the Norlh-West Company, had refused todo so. The persons who took part with the North-WestCompany, and under their influence, and at their instigation,became unfriendly tothe settlers, were the saidCanadians and Indians of the half-breed, who mightaltogether be in number about ninety or one hundred.The said Canadians consist of men from Lower Canada,who came to the country in the service of the North-West Company, and have been discharged, and nowlive with Indian women, and of persons of the samedescription, whoare still in the service of that Company;and tliesaid Indians of the half-breed may be thirty orforty in number, and are the natural children of personsin the service of the North-West Compaoy, by Indianwomen; and many of them are employed in the sameservice.That the deponent was at Fort Gibraltar, when hin«or ten Indians of the Cree nation were brought thitherby Alexander M'Donell, one of the partners of theNorth-West Company, in May or June last. Theywere feasted and kept drunk in the said fort for severaldays, and were then sent to speak to Captain M'Donelland two or three days after went away.That while thedeponent was at the said Fort Gibraltar, as aforesaid,he, the deponent, saw there in the hands of the North-West Company, nine pieces of caiinoHj which had beenprovided and used for the de'^^nce? of the settlement atRed River ; and which liad been, a few months before.t,f