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Red River Settlement, Rupert's Land (Manitoba, Canada)

Meet descendants and learn more about where to find information on your Red River ancestors and their culture/history here. Includes fur traders, First Nations, Scots/Irish/Swiss Selkirk Settlers, and Metis.

Website: http://www.lordselkirk.ca
Members: 47
Latest Activity: Mar 31, 2023

ESSAY CONTEST FOR YOUNG DESCENDANTS OF ORIGINAL RRS!

If you know descendants aged 18 and younger who are interested in writing about their history, please send them to www.lordselkirk.ca for details on TLSARL's Essay Contest!

Discussion Forum

Descendants of Alexander Sutherland and Catherine McPherson (The Point Douglas Sutherlands)

Started by Darren Sutherland. Last reply by Darren Sutherland May 12, 2017. 1 Reply

Greetings,I just recently joined GenealogyWise and thought I'd add an intro to the Red River Group.I am a descendant of Catherine "Kate" McPherson and Alexander Sutherland who came over with the 1813…Continue

Tags: McPherson

anyone interested in Wills or Probates?

Started by Carolyn MacKenzie. Last reply by Patti Flynn Heimsness Aug 23, 2015. 2 Replies

I have complied a list of wills and probates that are available to download from the British Archieves  and from Scotland People. List is mainly Hudsons Bay Traders and some men of the Red River.Both…Continue

Henderson & Halcrow Connection

Started by Rosemarie Teresa Truchon Aug 22, 2015. 0 Replies

Hello, I am a descendant of George Henderson son of Peter Henderson & Anne Maria Halcrow!  Peter was the son of Peter Henderson & Eleanor Whitford.  Peter was the son of Peter Henderson &…Continue

The Donald and Margaret (Swain) Gunn Family

Started by Robert J. Park. Last reply by Allan Johnson Jan 9, 2015. 9 Replies

This discussion group is for anyone that would like to share information and family history on the Donald Gunn Line of the Red River Settlement.Continue

Tags: Settlement, HBC, River, Red, Swain

The Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert's Land Blog

Kildonan Park Picnic 2023

A very successful picnic was held at Kildonan Park on Saturday, June 10th. Games, hot dogs, and a piper to entertain were all part of the days activities. Approximately 60 members attended and participated. 

Annual General Meeting and Luncheon

Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022 at 12 noon 

Breezy Bend Golf and Country Club, 7620 Roblin Blvd., Headingley.

Cost: $40.00, inclusive of tax and gratuity

Contact: Phyllis Fraser at phylfraser@icloud.com  or Allison Dixon at amdixon@shaw.ca to reserve your spot and meal preference

Options:

-Chicken Forrester with wild mushroom 

-Roast Stuffed Pork Loin with raisins, peaches, parsley, celery and onion 

-Salmon with hollandaise.

Guest Speaker – Dr. Anne Lindsay, Noted Historian

Dr. Lindsay is a settler scholar, archivist and historian who is currently involved in several efforts to identify and honour the children buried in Residential School cemeteries.  She initially came to our attention through the Friends of St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery for the assistance she is giving there in identifying some of the early unmarked graves in one of Winnipeg’s oldest cemeteries.

People in our association will be especially interested in hearing more about a recent discovery of an early grave from 1813 of settler Hector Maclean who died the first year in the settlement. 

Annual Picnic 2019

You are invited!

Please join us at

Kildonan Park

Main Street at McKay Avenue, Winnipeg MB

North Picnic Shelter #3 (Elm and Ash)

 on 

Sunday, June 9th from 12:30 to 4:30 pm

Join in group games.

Play bocce ball, croquet & frisbee.

Tour the cemetery at Old Kildonan Church.

Enjoy a hot dog and more at a beautiful Winnipeg Park.  

Members of the Manitoba Living History Society will be attending in period costumes.

This is a chance to encourage your kids, grandkids, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins who may not regularly attend the annual luncheon ofThe Lord Selkirk Association of Rupert’s Land to join you at a free casual event that engages them in learning a bit of their history. 

For more information, to register, and/or to offer your help, please contact Twila MacNair  204-781-8124 or twila.macnair@gmail.com

Please let us know how many people are attending so we will have enough food for everyone!

There will be a basket for an optional donation to help offset the costs of this event.

Comment Wall

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Comment by Elizabeth Campbell on September 1, 2012 at 8:47am

Hi James! Great to see you here.

I read Peter Fidler's journal not so long ago. It's a great source of information on the early RRS years.

Are you taking in any of the celebrations in Winnipeg this coming week?

Please feel free to set up discussions here under the topic of your ancestors' names if you are looking for relatives or more information on them. Just click Add a Discussion above!

Comment by James Alexander on August 31, 2012 at 4:03pm

Hello - I'm a new member. While I am not aware of being descended from any of the original settlers, I do know that at least one of my ancestors was involved with the settlement. Through my grandfather I am descended from HBC employees: Peter Fidler (English) and John Park (Scottish). Through the Park's I am also related to James Inkster and Laetitia Sutherland. 

Comment by Edith Matheson on March 18, 2011 at 8:29pm

Nadine - welcome. Which of Francis and Mary's children was your ancestor? I don't know much about any of them except Albert. I was able to follow his family because he moved to the U.S.

My great-grandfather was Angus, brother of John "Bushy" Matheson [1810-1898]. He and his wife Isabella (Livingston) and their two small sons, Alexander and James, moved to Delaware County, Iowa, in 1840. My grandfather, John, the seventh of their eleven children, was born in January 1847, just after Iowa was admitted to the Union.

Edith Matheson

Comment by Nadine Ford on February 5, 2011 at 7:57pm

Hello,

I am a brand new member.  I have documents that say I am descended from the Mathesons, Murrays, Pritchards and Smyths and am interested in learning as much as I can.

My great grandfather was Francis W. Murray whose father was a Lord Selkirk settler and Fracis who was born in Old Kildonan on the family homestead. His wife was Mary Matheson a sister of the Archbishop of Rupert's Land.  I have a copy of his obituary but the date was cut off. I also have their original marriage certificate of March 7, 1876.  I have a family tree of the Pritchards & Mathesons going back to John Pritchard 1657 -1737 descended from the Pritchards of Middleton, Chisbury. 

 

Comment by Samuel Murray Matheson on January 30, 2010 at 8:58am
Hi

I descend from John Pagee Matheson and Ann Nancy Polson and also through his father Alexander Matheson of Coirag who followed in the late 1820's.

Always interested to learn more about the settlement and distant ancestors.

Also, I am looking for relatives of Stuart Gordon Matheson, origionally from the Selkirk MB area, who passed away in the 1980's in Ontario.
Comment by Elizabeth Campbell on January 29, 2010 at 7:58pm
Hi Mel~
Welcome to the Red River forum!
I can't seem to post to you own page, so hope you see this!
Are you descended from John Cooper and Mary McKinnon?
Hope to chat with you sometime!
Elizabeth
Comment by Edith Matheson on November 7, 2009 at 3:53pm
Actually, I am not descended from Donald and Ann Livingston, but from Donald's brother James, and Sarah Bowie. Also from Alexander (b. 1781) and Ann Matheson of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and the Red River Settlement. James's daughter Isabella and Alex's son Angus married in 1836 and moved to Iowa with two small sons in 1840. My grandfather John Matheson was born in 1847.
I have learned quite a lot about the descendants of the Livingstons and their friends who left the Red River Settlement for Iowa and beyond. Donald has a great many more descendants than James, their brother Hugh or their sister Catherine McLean. James and Hugh both had large families but many of their children and grandchildren did not have any children, and Catherine lost half of her children at young ages.
I've learned a lot about the history and geography of the U.S., too, as I've traced the movements of people around the country. Interestingly, one of my dad's relatives on his mother's side moved to Saskatchewan for awhile after having been born in Iowa and living there for quite a few years. Then they moved to California. So there's another Canadian connection I just learned about recently.
Comment by Elizabeth Campbell on November 1, 2009 at 11:00am
You and Edith and I are cousins, then, Doug. Edith shares descendancy from Donald and Ann, I go one generation further back, as I am descended from Ann's sister Catherine.
www.lordselkirk.ca is the best place online for learning more about the settlement as a whole. See the feed above.
As the Genealogist at TLSARL, I have collected a fair bit about Donald Livingston as I've read through the journal entries of settlement officials. Joining the association would give you access to this information for a small fee, also, members receive a quarterly newsletter packed with history and news. We are getting ready for the bicentennial of our ancestors' arrival at Red River. Among other things, we are planning a trip to Scotland to visit ancestral sites. You can put in a request for membership info on the site in the Contact Us form.
Comment by Doug Loveland on November 1, 2009 at 10:32am
Hi

I descend from Donald Livingston and Ann McGillivray, and so also through his father Neil who followed in 1819.

Not spending much time on genealogy these days, but always interested to learn more about the settlement.
Comment by Elizabeth Campbell on October 31, 2009 at 6:31pm
Hello Doug!
I am unable to leave a comment on your page for some reason, so will do so here.
Welcome to GenealogyWise and the Red River Settlement Rupert's Land Group!
Which Livingston is yours?
May I also recommend you check out www.lordselkirk.ca, which is the Red River Settlers' descendant's site? I write a blog there about the history of the settlement and also post any news about our association there.
I look forward to seeing you at the forum!
Elizabeth Campbell
 

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