He was only a little past thirty, and that Canadian picture could never be effaced from his mind.

In after days, these "Lords of the North" abused Lord Selkirk for spying out their trade, for catching the secrets of their business which were in the wind, and for making an undue use of what they had disclosed to him.

In this there was nothing.

His schemes were afire in his own mind long before, his Montreal experiences but fanned the flame, and led him to send a few Colonists to Upper Canada to the Settlement to Baldoon.

This settlement was, however, of small account.
In 1808 though inactive he showed his bent by buying up Hudson's Bay Company stock.