Date |
Event |
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30 May 1811 |
Lord Selkirk (Thomas Douglas) and the Hudson's Bay Company finalize the sale of 116,000 square miles of territory for ten shillings. |
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12 June 1811 |
The District of Assiniboia is ceded by the Hudson's Bay Company to Lord Selkirk |
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26 July 1811 |
The ship Edward and Ann bearing the working party sail from Stornoway for Hudson Bay |
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6 September 1811 |
The transport ship bearing the working party enters the Hudson Strait |
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24 September 1811 |
The working party goes ashore at the point between the Nelson and Hayes Rivers |
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5 October 1811 |
Edward and Ann returns to England |
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7 October 1811 |
Miles Macdonell and the working party move to the north side of the Nelson River where they are housed in tents |
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29 November 1811 |
A small boat crosses the Nelson River with a message from Miles Macdonell toChief Factor Cook at York Factory |
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31 December 1811 |
Year ends in a difference of opinion between the Irish and Orkneymen in which the former are said to have "unmercifully beat the latter" |
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24 June 1812 |
The first party of colonists sail from Sligo, Ireland aboard the Robert Taylor |
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29 June 1812 |
The spring fur brigade reaches York Factory as Macdonell and his men prepare to depart for the colony |
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6 July 1812 |
Miles Macdonell with the working party depart York Factory for the Red River Settlement, following the Hayes River |
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30 August 1812 |
Macdonell with 23 workmen reach the confluence of Red and Assiniboine Rivers and make camp on the east bank |
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4 September 1812 |
"Seizin of the Land": Macdonell and officials of the Hudson's Bay Company exchange official documents |
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6 September 1812 |
Most of the party go to Pembina due to shortage of provisions; others stay behind to being building Fort Douglas and to clear land to plant winter wheat |
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12 September 1812 |
Macdonell reaches Fort Pembina |
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13 September 1812 |
Macdonell selects a site and begin work on construction of Fort Daer |
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7 October 1812 |
The first wheat is planted near Fort Douglas |
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27 October 1812 |
A group of 71 settlers under Owen Keveny reaches the Fort Daer site |
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21 November 1812 |
All the families and men are housed at Fort Daer |
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24 December 1812 |
Macdonell hoists the flag and names the site Fort Daer |
