Selkirka concession

Selkirka Concession - landed about 300,000 square kilometers in today's Canadian province of Manitoba and the US States of Minnesota and North Dakota by the Hudson Bay Company to Lord (count, Earl) Selkirka in 1809.

Since the beginning of its administration of the Rupert Land, Kompania has tried to prevent settlement in this area, wishing to maintain a monopoly on trade in skins and other goods. This ban has been repeatedly broken by "wild" settlement, most often of the mestizos. The company tolerated it mainly due to the value of the services provided to it by the mestizos. The Selkirka concession was the first breach in this rule. Douglas, who went down in history as Lord Selkirk, promised the Company to provide 200 employees a year, providing certain sources of food supply and assistance in the settlement of retired Kompania employees. The settlement action, mainly poor Scottish farmers from Selkirk county in Scotland, began in 1811. After a few hard years, mainly due to the colonists' lack of adaptation to the difficult climate and the need to switch to different cultivation methods, a colony spread along the Red River, the center was Fort Garry (today Winnipeg), it began to develop dynamically. In the first years of the existence of the colony, there were numerous conflicts with the communities living in Mysi that inhabited the same areas. The culmination of this conflict was the armed operation, which ended with the defeat of the mestizos in the battle of the seven oaks. In later years, relations between the Scottish colonists and the mestizos were arranged correctly and in the Red River Valley a resilient colony bearing all the features of the borderland community was established.

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