Canadian Historic Sites: Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History No. 4

The Sixth Regiment of Foot at Lower Fort Garry

by William R. Morrison

Endnotes

1 Great Britain, Army, Historical Records of the British Army (London: Adjutant-General's Office, 1837), p. 2.

2 Later they were at "South Africa, 1846-7, 1851-2-3," "Atbara," "Khartoum," and "South Africa, 1899-1902."

3 The letter is quoted in W.E. Ingersoll, "Redcoats at Fort Garry," The Beaver, Outfit 276 (December 1945), p. 14.

4 "Answers to quaeres submitted to Sir George Simpson by . . . Cathcart, . . . 23 February 1846." PAC, MG12, WO1, Vol. 557, p. 17 rf.

5 Ibid.

6 Ibid., p. 9, Cathcart to Gladstone, 25 February 1846.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid., p. 139, Wellington to Gladstone, 8 April 1846.

9 Ibid., 15 April 1846.

10 Ibid., p. 187, Fitzroy Somerset to James Stephen, 1 May 1846. Crofton's journal mentions the presence of 15 women and 17 children on the journey to Red River. Great Britain. War Office, Notes on the Route from Lake Superior to Red River and on the Settlement Itself (London: War Office, 1870), Appendix, p. 6.

11 This biographical material is taken from the introduction to the copy of extracts from Crofton's letters and diary in the Winnipeg Public Library (hereafter cited as Crofton Letter Book).

12 Great Britain. War Office, op. cit., Appendix, p. 3.

13 Ibid., p. 4.

14 Ibid., p. 6.

15 Ibid., p. 12.

16 PAC, MG12, WO1, Vol. 557, p. 199, Crofton to Fitzroy Somerset, 15 September 1846.

17 Ibid.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 Crofton Letter Book, Letter to his wife, 15 September 1846.

22 Ibid., 29 October 1846.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid.

25 Ibid.

26 PAC, MG12, WO1, Vol. 557, p. 199, Crofton to Fitzroy Somerset, 15 September 1846.

27 Crofton Letter Book, letter to his wife, 29 October 1846.

28 Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Governor George Simpson, Correspondence Inward, 23 November 1846, pp. 386-9, D.5/18.

29 Ibid.

30 Crofton Letter Book, letter to ?, 23 April 1847.

31 Ibid.

32 Ibid.

33 Ibid., letter to his wife, 25 April 1847.

34 Ibid., letter to ?, 24 May 1847.

35 PAC, MG12, WO1, Vol. 557, p. 221, letter of 21 September 1846.