"Next morning, ... I looked upon a landscape which I shall never forget," reported Dr. Macgregor in Edinburgh's The Scotsman. "I am not sure that my eyes have ever looked on a fairer land than that which [is] spread before me." Macgregor's comment, written as he approached Fort Ellice, unwittingly demonstrates his understanding of the role that he was expected to play on the Governor General's tour  -  promoter of the western landscape to prospective immigrants from Britain.