[BRYCE] LORD SELKIRK’S DIARIES 7 
out, when they all turned soldiers. In 1786 they received accessions, 
and again in 1791 and 2. At this time they had settled 18 concessions. 
Newcomers came to Glengarry in 1802—about 160 or 170 souls. 
Jan. 23rd. Left Mr. Bethune’s. 
Jan. 24th. (Gives an account of sleighs and carioles. Ed.). 
Jan. 24th to Feb. 6th. Remained in Montreal and received budgets 
of letters. Saw Sir John Johnson. (Lord Selkirk gives his estimate 
of the “Grandees and Nabobs of the North West Company.” Ed.) 
By far the majority of the mercantile people of Montreal are Scotch, 
at least four-fifths of the trade is carried on by them. They have 
little to do in winter, and are then very hospitable. Some of them 
live in great splendour. 
(Gives an account of the fur traders. Description of the Fur 
Trade covers many pages. Ed.) 
Monday, Feb. 7th. Left Montreal for Quebec. Journeyed by 
land, and some part of the way on the ice. 
Feb. 10th. Legislature had just opened in Quebec when Lord 
Selkirk arrived. 
Feb. 21st to June 4th (1804) Lord Selkirk’s Diary IV. Journeys 
south from Quebec on his way to New York. Gives most interesting 
account of the States. 
March 17th. Reached New York. 
(Went Westward, thoroughly studying the conditions of people 
and lands in the State of New York. Ed.). 
May 19th. Reached Indian Village of Buffaloe. Crossed into | 
Canada. 
May 22nd. Visited Niagara. No vessels for York. 
May 23rd. Set off to go from Niagara by road to York. Heard 
of Col. Brock’s plan to meet desertions of soldiers at Niagara by organiz- 
ing a select corps to be stationed at frontier forts, men of approved 
merit to serve for a term of years and then on retirement to receive lands 
and other rewards. 
May 25th. Obliged to ride to York through horrible roads—all 
unsettled except a few houses near York. 
Left York. Rode to Etobicoke where Col. Smith has 3,000 acres. 
May 29th. Left Etobicoke by boat for Head of the Lake—Bur- 
lington Bay. 
May 30th. Left Head of the Lake (near present Hamilton. Ed.) 
—and after fourteen miles reached Mr. Hatt’s at Ancaster. 
The Hatts were two Englishmen who seven or eight years earlier 
settled here. They have a farm, distillery, potash works, and store. 
(Afterwards prominent in public life. Ed.). 
