The colony's population increases significantly throughout the 19th Century, despite very little immigration after 1821, and the emigration of a number of Métis families to hunting sites in the Western Plain.
In 1870, the colony has more than 12,000 inhabitants, largely composed of Métis, and stretches more than one hundred kilometres from North to South along the Red River, and the same distance to the West along the Assiniboine.

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