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Date: June 12, 1811

Red River Colony

The Hudson’s Bay Company granted an area of about 185 000 km² to Lord Selkirk for the formation of a colony at Red River. Selkirk's first settlers arrived in the summer of 1812. Despite tribulations the settlement grew into the first European colony in the North-West.

Thomas Douglas, 5th
Earl of Selkirk

Date: June 12, 1811
Red River Colony
The Hudson’s Bay Company granted an area of about 185 000 km² to Lord Selkirk for the formation of a colony at Red River. Selkirk's first settlers arrived in the summer of 1812. Despite tribulations the settlement grew into the first European colony in the North-West.	Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk