Virtual settlement.The Association for Manitoba Archives has launched a historical Web exhibit, Recorders of Community: The Archival Legacy of the Red River Settlement Red River Settlement, agricultural colony in present Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota. It was the undertaking of Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk. Wishing to relieve the dispossessed and impoverished in Scotland and Northern Ireland, he secured enough control Churches 1818-1870, (www.mbarchives.mb.ca/recorders/). "Churches were central to the lives of settlers in this remote fur trade fur trade, in American history. Trade in animal skins and pelts had gone on since antiquity, but reached its height in the wilderness of North America from the 17th to the early 19th cent. community on the banks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers Assiniboine River River, southern Canada. Rising in Saskatchewan, it flows southeast across Manitoba into the Red River of the North at Winnipeg. It is about 665 mi (1,070 km) long and has two tributaries, the Qu'Appelle and the Souris. . Archival documents left by the churches and their parishioners reveal much about that now vanished society," reported Rupert's Land Rupert's Land, Canadian territory held (1670–1869) by the Hudson's Bay Company, named for Prince Rupert, first governor of the company. Under the charter granted (1670) to the company by Charles II, the region comprised the drainage basin of Hudson Bay. News, the newspaper of the diocese of Rupert's Land. "One viewer describes this exhibit as 'like going through the contents of an interesting old trunk.'" Interactive maps show the settlement as it was in 1825, 1855 and 1870. The exhibit includes information about the Church of England Church of England: see England, Church of. , which was the only Protestant'denomination at Red River until 1851. Visitors to the exhibit may also read the letters and diaries of missionaries and parishioners and learn how stone and frame church buildings were built out of local materials. |
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