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M Well-Known Familj^ of Old
Red Rivep.

By Rev. Dh. Hkyck.

IY/I any of tho people of Winnipeg
^^ I ^ know the pretty spot at i lie
^«^' botvoni of Rupert street on
the l)aiiks of Red River, now enclosed as
a pleasure resort. Its name " (^lony
gardens" is a n)einorial of the founding of
Selkirk colony some eighty years u"o.
Lower down the hank, and not far from The
present resideiico of Mr. Alexander Logan,
was the old Fort Doualiis built by Lord
Selkirk's agents, a id the spot where the
gardens now are was occupied by the first
houses erected for the colony. These,
according to a niup of the time, now in
the possession of the writer, were burned
by the Northwest Company in 1815. The
gardens with their tall trees and pleas<nt
ouilooK on the river became the property
of one of the best known men of Red
River of old. A'exander Ross, for a long
time Shei-iff of Assiniboia. The old house,

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still to be seen aii'on;* the trees, was the
CP?itr«. <'f much that transpired in the old
davH, for tliH Slieiirt'ocLUjjjed the uni({ue
position of beiii<{ in the confidi-nce of the
Jlud>o"'s Jlay Company, the rulers of the
laud, and also of l)eiii<{ thoroui:hly in
toitch vvith the people of the Ited Uivc^r
settlement. Me was as reiil ti lli^^hliinder
as any man of Klldonun, and l>y inairia^'e
was closely related to the native popula-
tion of the lund. A man of ardent nature,
of fair education, and somewhat a-si-rtive
disposition he liecaine not only a f-ooiul
leader of his time, but also an auihor of
some considerable note. A short sketch
of his life seems appropriate. Alexander
Uoss was born in the year 17t<l, sime-
where in the Olenelj; or Kiiitail district
of the western Scotti>h hij,'iilaiids. in
1802 he sailnd as one of a party of muny
hundreds of iinnii<;rants who, divided
ainooj^ three ships, came to (Lmada, pain-
fully toiled up the St. Lawrence, and
settled in iht! (;lenj,'aiTy district in Upper
Canada. Youoi; Kosstau:;htscliool forsoine
time in the Upper Canadian settlements,
liut in I'^lO joined the Astor Conipany,
and saihiif,' mound Cape Horn landed on
the Coluinl)ia river, which llows into tlie
Pacitio ocean. Three years later the
Northwest (?oiepaiiy bought out A«lor's
Atnerican Fur (!ompany, ,iiid Koss was ap-
pointed in charj,'!' of a post at Oakinaj^.in.
It was soiUHwIiat atnusiti;; to read in
copies of Sir (ieorf;e Simpson's letters,
which the writer saw a short time hj;()
that the (ioMirnor was of opinion that
lloss wou'd make a l)etter 'cliool teacher'
than fur trader, and so called him fortius
purpose from the hill tops of Oakinaynn
to the prairies of Red River. It was in
1>S25 that this transfer took (dace, but the
experiences of tin? ])recediii^' hfreen years
led to the publication ot the "Adventures
<if First Settlers on the Orejjoii,' and in
ISif) of the "Fur Hunters of the Far
West" —most intercstinj,' works of adven-
ture. The Highland trader- had not
wholly mis'-rnployed his time at ()akiiia<,''i".
Here he hud fallen in love with the
a(tra<;tivo dau;^liter of a fjreat clii''f of the
niouni^ains, her lie had married^ and his
eldest children were born in Coltirril)ia.
Under orders from the ( Jowr'iior, wiili
liis family, he iourneyed overland by the
toilsome pass and tr.ul till he found rest

in what Governor Archibald used to call
the "paradise of l{ed River." To the
earlier residiMits of W'iiinipeif "(iranny
Ross" as she was all" crionatily called was
well known. She was a woiuari of iiiuih
shrewdness and iirtelliu>'nce and was for
many yr^ars a devo'id (Jlnistiim. 'I lie
writer was in the habit of often calling in
to see the kind hearted old lady and of
having a talk about the former days. Her
husband had died in ISoG, and she was
probably ten or twelve year's Ins juriior,
for she ordv passed away some ni'ie year's
a^o. riie Koss fanidy was a laif{e one,
consistinj^ of eleven sons and da>i<.;hters
who yrew up No doulit .Jaiires was the
best known. He had ^^raduated in Toronto
University in IH.")? with very hinh honors,
having; takin<; the j^uld medal in Modern
L'Uuuaijts. He was for years oi the
editorial stall of the Toi'onio (llnhi', and
was then well known to the writer. (Jn
Iris return to his native Ri'tl River afi,er
the liinl rebellion he was a(>pointed liy
thi^ Provisional Coveriuiient as Chief
.Justice, lie did not lon^' survive the
entrance of Mairitoba into Canadian
(Jonffderation. Shortly afti r, a younger
brother. Alexander, a youin; man of
lirilliant parts who had been educati d in
Upper l!ana(:a tJollcge, Tororjto, passed
away prerrraturely.

No doubt the tiling for which Sherill
Ross w.is best known was the active part
taken liy him in founding the iliurch of
his fathers on the banks of Red River.
Any one anxious to know the lelryioris
struggles of the people of Hed River may
tind them graphically depicted in his
"Red Rrver Settlement" (London, IHrr").
No doiiirt the antlior was a partiziii, but
his liook is all the more readable on that
account. The orig rial jieople of .Selkirk
setll' rrieiit always maintairred that Lord
Selkirk had promised to siMid them a
clergyman of their' own faith. It was on
this pledge that the petitiruis, req ests
and complai.its ably presented by Sherill'
Jioss \i"re Irased. The isolation of the
country and somewhat repr-essive rule of
the Hudson's Hay Com])any at the time
led to many disapiiointments. At length
Uev .John Ulai-k came as the spiritual
ai'ide of Ross and his co rel gionists, and
t'le zea! with which the Sheiill, tin li 70
years of age, tilled the place of an elder is

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very noticcalilc in the chunti ri'conls of
t'lc tiiiH'. A f<'w years after his arrival
the pioneer missionary Mr. lUnck was
married t.o Henrietta, ilauyliier of Slientl
H(ivs The writer well renieniWers the
force of ehnracter, nl.ility and kindness of
liiisnolile niotherin Isniel. whodied near
!v I'd years a'.'o. leaving' ii well known
faini'y." Sin .ill Itnss was so elosely con-
nected with the church that it was no
wonder that anntiier dani,'hter of his was
married to the j)io!ieer I'reshvterian
Indian missionary Uev Ceors'^ Klett of
Okanase. Mrs. Wlett, who has heen ii
most n-eful helper in the civilization of
the Indian women of lier mission, is the
only survivor of the eleven childien of
Sherid |{oss.

The strip of land enclosed in this city
hetwen William and Alexander streets
was the old iioss estate. We were aMe
to reco^'iii/" the names of William the
e'dest son. of his wife .lemima still sur-
vivinii of .lames, and l{o^s all upon well-
known streets of this city, unt il the act
of vandalisin hy wliich the late city coun-
cil replaced the street mimes wiih nnni
her--. Intelliyent <'itizens liojie to have
thi'se, as well as the names of the other
city pioneers soon restored.

We do well to keep in mind the names
a'ld memories of the old Ued River people
whc.did anythinu' for Selkirk settlement
It is true "the settlement wa.s crude and
jirimitive, liut there w^re many uohle men
and wonuii who work (1 for tlie elevation
of a community wliich had many dis-
advantasjes. and which hut tor them woulil
have seriously deteriorated. The Hud-
son's I'.av Conipanv was the central tijjure

of iho'^e times. It was very far from be
inu perfect, l)ut it is a (piestion whether
any other j^reat orjianizatiou, 1m i,'nn solely
for the purposes of trade, ever did as
much for the maintenance of honor and
the }{ood of the people. !n the Selkirk
settlement, the oirsprins,' of the Hudson's
!!ay Company, there was no more notalile
name than Koss.

Attorney— "How doyou tix the time of
the murder as at midnif^ht?"

Witness '• llecause there were no
policeman anywhere around at the time.'