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Settlement Hist.

• n. the colony established by Lord Selkirk in the valley of the Red River in Manitoba in 1812.

  See also: Red River  Red River Settlement  

  • 1815  (1963)  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.