The Park-like setting of the future Rural Municipality of Taché was very attractive to one and all. The land was arable and water was plentiful.

An Excerpt from a Winnipeg Free Press write-up on November 30, 1872 reads:

    “Reaching Winnipeg, we again turned out along the Dawson route, through a beautiful park-like country butting on the River Seine. In township 10, range 4, we found a dozen families from Ontario settled, who had taken claims previous to the location of the half-breed grant, which now covers this locality. The farms are well situated on the road, and will be very valuable, as they are within ten miles of town, and second to none in all the desiderate of food, water and fertility. (…) The road continues on to Pointe des Chênes in sight of the River Seine, through a most beautiful country, second to none anywhere in its material advantages.”

Source: Blom, R.R. (1980, April). Taché Rural Municipality 1880-1980 (P.7-8). Commissioned by The Council of the Rural Municipality of Taché. Derksen Printers, Steinbach: Manitoba. Retrieved from University of Manitoba digital collections June 3, 2020, http://hdl.handle.net/10719/3055598

Harvesters came from the East on special trains to work the fields of the West. Barry Broadfoot, The Pioneer Years, 1895-1914. Print

The Seine River Manitoba in the summer. The Dawson Trail followed the Seine River from Ste. Anne to Winnipeg. Save Our Seine. Retrieved from https://www.saveourseine.com/resources

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