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conciliation, and because he carried this policy throughout, he was often the mark of abuse and avowed dislike by certain. parties in the country. From the first, his task was a most difficult one, in attempting to affiliate two distinct classes, neither one of which could be thoroughly conciliated without giving offence to the other.

The day after his arrival, in a letter to Sir George E. Cartier, he thus spoke of the flight of the French leaders :-" It is, perhaps, the best solution of the question that these men have taken to flight. Their presence here, in the meantime, would have been a source of incessant trouble. Warrants for the apprehension of the three men who had fled were applied for and obtained, and have been placed in the hands of constables. Of course, while feeling runs so high as it does at present, an attempt at arrest (if they had remained) would have been met by resistance, and in the end we would, perhaps, have had to call out the military, and we would have had a world of trouble which the absence of these people enables us to escape." In a later letter, he again refers to the subject in the following words:" I have no doubt that any attempt to arrest would be met with a desperate resistance, which might involve a great many of the population, while, so far as I can learn, there is no disposition to proceed against any person but the three men who were considered in a peculiar manner to be chargeable with the death of Scott. I have explained to the Bishop that, even if there were an amnesty to-morrow, it would not save these parties from possible attempts on their lives, which might be attended with consequences as fatal as the attempt to arrest, and, therefore, under the present circumstances, in the interests of the community, in the interests of the French Half-Breeds, and in the interests of the

parties themselves, it would be better that they should not be found in the territory."

One of the first steps taken by Lieut.-Governor Archibald after assuming his duties, was to cause an enumeration to be taken of the people in the Province, for the purpose of holding elections of representatives to the Local House, and, pending this, His Honor appointed two members of his Executive Council, in conformity with the instructions received by him from the Secretary of State, on the 4th August. The gentlemen selected were, Mr. Alfred Boyd, a merchant, who was popular with the English residents, and Mr. Marc Amable Girard, who had been in the country only a short time, having arrived with Bishop Taché on the same day that the 60th Rifles reached Fort Garry. Mr. Girard, who was a notary by profession, had been Mayor of Varennes, in the Province of Quebec, and from the first became a favorite with the French people of Manitoba.

The next step towards the maintenance of law and order was the formation of a mounted police force, under command of Capt. Villiers, of the Quebec Rifles, and, as it may be of interest, we give the names of these policemen, the first gazetted in the Province of Manitoba :-Wm. Alloway, James Cross, Wm. Montgomery, Timothy Carroll, Edwin Doidge, Elijah Ketts, Geo. Kerr, John Melanson, John Stevenson, Leon Hivet, Geo. Nicol, H. Montgomery, Robert Power, Maxime Villebrun, Wm. Miller, John Paterson, Andrew Persy, Neil McCarthy, Michael Fox.

Previous to the formation of this police force, a good deal of ill-feeling on the part of Canadian residents was shown toward the French, which on several occasions broke out into open hostility, and on one occasion a man named Goulet, who

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