The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies

CHAPTER XLIII.

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UNREST IN RUPERT'S LAND.

1844-1869.

Discontent on Red River--Queries to the Governor--A courageous Recorder--Free Trade in furs held illegal--Imprisonment--New land deed--Enormous freights--Petty revenge--Turbulent pensioners--Heart burnings--Heroic Isbister--Half-breed memorial--Mr. Beaver's letter--Hudson's Bay Company notified--Lord Elgin's reply--Voluminous correspondence--Company's full answer--Colonel Crofton's statement--Major Caldwell, a partisan--French petition--Nearly a thousand signatures--Love, a factor--The elder Riel--A court scene--Violence--"Vive la liberté!"--The Recorder checked--A new judge--Unruly Corbett--The prison broken--Another rescue--A valiant doctor--A Red River Nestor 438