CHAPTER IV. 



PIONEER JOURNALS THE REV. JOHN WEST 

 From the height of land, north and west, we Formation of 



journey chiefly in the company of the other great M * s 



English Society which has done so much for the 



aboriginal peoples of the Dominion. The Church 



Missionary Society for Africa and the East was 



established in 1799, its founders saying: &quot;As the 



S. P. C. K. and the S. P. G. confine their labours 



to the British Plantations in America and the 



West Indies, there seems to be still wanting in the 



established Church a Society for sending mission 



aries to the Continent of Africa and other parts 



of the Eastern World.&quot; The Society founded 



under th l .s title was destined to send some of its 



most heroic agents to the Western Continent 



and to win therein some of its most signal victories 



of the Cross. 



A proposal was made to the Society, by a F j r8t p r0 posai 

 member of the North West Fur Company, to 

 establish a mission among the Indians beyond the 

 Rocky Mountains. The Committee &quot;undertook 

 to procure further information&quot; but with what 

 result does not appear as the matter is not again 

 referred to. 



Another proposal led to more definite results. 1811 

 Under the Earl of Selkirk an agricultural settle 

 ment was formed on the banks of the Red River. 

 When Governor Semple was sent out from 



