Selkirk Thomas Douglas Earl Of 1771-1820 Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson Era Influenced By

Mackenzie's Voyages, 7, 94; gains controlling interest in Hudson's Bay

Company, 7; organizes colony, 7, 8, 100; dies, 1820, 8; Canadian places

named after, 115; his lineage, 115, 116; birth, June, 1771, 116;

educated at University of Edinburgh, 117; influenced by French

Revolution, 117-118; becomes Baron Daer and Shortcleugh, 1797, on death

of his brother, and Earl of Selkirk, on death of his father, 1799,

118-119; phi anthropic interest in the Highlands and emigration policy,

119-120; his scheme for national defence, 120-121; made Fellow of Royal

Society, 122; his Sketch of the British Fur Trade in 1806, 122;

earlier pamphlets on the North American Indians, attributed to him, 122;

his pamphlet on Parliamentary Reform, 123, 124; character sketch, 125;

his memorial of 1802, on the proposed colony in Rupert's Land, 127-128;

his Prince Edward Island colony, 129-132; visits United States and

Canada, 132-133; the Baldoon Settlement in Upper Canada, 133; the

Moulton Settlement, 134; visits Montreal, 1803, 137; entertained by the

partners of the North West Company, at the Beaver Club, 139-140; takes

advantage of his opportunities to obtain knowledge of the fur trade,

140; genesis of the Red River project, 141-142; obtains legal opinion on

the Hudson's Bay Company, 143-145; purchases controlling interest in the

Hudson's Bay Company, 145-146; buys Red River property from the Company,

146; opposition of Mackenzie, Inglis, and Ellice, 146; area of the

tract, 147; plans for the colony, 149; terms of settlement, 149-150;

sends for Miles Macdonell and puts him in charge of the colony, 150;

sends him out to Hudson Bay with colonists, 151; sends second party of

colonists, 159; sends third party of colonists, 1813, 162; sends Robert

Semple with a fourth party, 1815, 164; arrives in Montreal from Scotland

with his family, 1815, 185; makes representations to Lord Bathurst, and

Sir George Drummond, 186; brings the De Meurons, disbanded Swiss

soldiers, to Fort William, 189; winters at Point De Meuron, 190; reaches

Red River, June, 1817, 191; makes treaty with Indians, 192; returns to

Upper Canada, 193; faces trial at Sandwich, 198; and at York, 199;

brings charges against North West Company, 199; his letter to Duke of

Richmond, 200; returns to England, 201; the Bluebook of 1819, 201;

letter of Sir Walter Scott, 202-203; his health breaks down, 202; death,

April 8, 1820, at Pau, 204; sketch of his life in Gentleman's

Magazine, 204-206; his family, 206; compared with Alexander Mackenzie,

209. See also Red River Colony. =Bib.=: Works: Sketch of the British

Fur Trade in 1806; Observations on a Proposal for the Civilization and

Improvement of the North American Indians within the British Boundary;

Parliamentary Reform; Civilization of the Indian in North America;

On the Necessity of a More Efficient System of National Defence;

Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, with a

View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of Emigration. For biog.,

see Morgan, Cel. Can.; Dent, Can. Por.; Dict. Nat. Biog.; Bryce,

Manitoba, Hudson's Bay Company, and Romantic Settlement of Lord

Selkirk's Colonists; Laut, Conquest of the Great North-West. See

also Red River Colony; Baldoon.