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Many Orcadians who did not return to Orkney after their time with the company settled in an area called the Red River Valley, to the south of Lake Winnipeg. This settlement was founded by the Earl of Selkirk for the Highlanders displaced by the clearances.

An Orcadian who had a particular influence in the area was Andrew Graham Ballenden Bannatyne. Born on the island of South Ronaldsay in 1829, he signed up to the Hudson’s Bay Company as a fourteen year-old to be an apprentice clerk, first stationed at Sault Set Marie (Ontario) and then at Red River (Manitoba).

Bannantyne quickly realised the extent of the commercial possibilities at Red River and left the company at the end of his contract in June 1851 to set up as a dry goods merchant and fur-trader. At that time, the Hudson’s Bay Company were losing the monopoly they held over the fur-trade and in an attempt to protect their position had Bannantyne arrested in 1858. The company’s legal advisers deemed the arrest illegal and he was quickly released and compensated.

Bannantyne went on to great success, becoming one of the largest retail and wholesale entrepreneurs in the Red River Settlement. Following the Red River Rebellion, he worked as a post master in a provisional government of Red River and after Manitoba became a Canadian province in 1870, the first parliament was held in his Winnipeg home. It was described as “the best and most commodious building in Winnipeg”.

Although Bannantyen became incredibly wealthy from his career, he lost virtually everything in the land boom of the early 1880s. He died on holiday in Minnesota in May 1889 and is commemorated by Bannantyne Avenue in Winnipeg.

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Orcadian fiddle and mandolin player Graham Rorie is an award-winning folk musician based in Glasgow.

As well as being a founding member of folk band Gnoss, Graham has recently collaborated with pianist Rory Matheson for an album titled, We Have Won The Land as well as releasing his own solo record, The Orcadians of Hudson Bay, available here! ... more

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