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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the colony established by Lord Selkirk in the valley of the Red River in Manitoba in 1812.
Quotations
1815
It is hereby promised that peace & amity shall hereafter ever exist between the people of this Settlement and the Half Breeds. . . .
1883
Having spent a year in "the settlement," as Assiniboia was called up to only a few years ago, he left his native land for England in 1842, and though ardently attached to it never had the privilege of seeing it again.
1929
The "settlement " (that is, the Red River Settlement) on each side of the river continues for six or eight miles below Selkirk.