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[Illustration: REV. JOHN BLACK, D.D.

The Apostle of the Red River.]


JOHN BLACK
THE APOSTLE OF THE RED RIVER

Or,
How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled
on Manitoba Prairies

by

REV. GEORGE BRYCE, M.A., LL.D.

Professor in Manitoba College, Winnipeg.







Toronto:
William Briggs
Wesley Buildings.
C. W. Coates, Montreal.      S. F. Huestis, Halifax.
1898


Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by William Briggs, at
the Department of Agriculture.




PREFACE.


We are in the habit of referring to the heroic deeds of our fathers,
whether English, Scottish, Irish or French, in the struggles they
endured and the sacrifices they made for country or religion. The
service rendered to liberty and religion by Cromwell and his Ironsides
at Marston Moor or Naseby, by Hamilton and his Covenant