24 April 1814
by Elizabeth Campbell“Sunday in the morning visited all the Tents & warned the whole party to be clean in the course of the day & have clean Shirts & handkerchf. on, as the Gentlemen from the Factory and their wives would call upon us to-day, who accordingly came about Eleven O’Clock….” – Journal of Archibald McDonald 1814
Fifty-one of the 1813 group of Selkirk Settlers, who made the fourteen day journey from their winter camp at Churchill Creek to York Factory overland on snowshoe, are awaiting spring break-up in order to continue their journey to Red River by boat.
(references: pages 18192, 18180 and 18190 respectively of the Selkirk Papers, M187, Manitoba Archives)
Tags: 1813 Group, Archibald McDonald, Archibald McDonald Journal, Churchill Creek, York Factory
