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A Rich History The Sale of Rupertsland Simon J. Dawson: Surveyor, Civil Engineer, and Politician Anishinaabe Chief Showed Dawson the Way Lumber for the “Mother Church of Western Canada” Troubles at the Red River Colony: Surveying Gives Rise to Tensions Women in the ‘New West’ “Compagnie de la Graisse” Early Animal Shelter Eagle Bus Lines Métis Kinscape Métis Women Entrepreneurs Hauling for the C.P.R. on the Dawson Road Métis Carts Carry the Burden for the Wolseley Expedition First Reeve of Taché Signed his Name with an “X” The Legendary Midwinter Tramp of a Famous Lorette Resident Louis Riel Land Claim East of Lorette Rich Floras Leading to and past Pointe des chênes A Trip to Manitoba or “Roughing it on the Line” Canadian Pacific Railway Supersedes the Dawson Trail by 1885 The River Lot System Early Surveyors Meet with Resistance Last Survivor of the Old West: Alexandre Bériault Call To The Grey Nuns (Soeur Grises) A Long History of Health Services “A Most Beautiful Country” Mennonite Delegates in Sainte-Anne (1873) Bison Hunting Majestic Beaver Dam Of Mud and Straw Dawson Road Construction: Plagued with Troubles John Snow: Foreman of Road Building Workers Revolt: The “Dunking” of John Snow The Rise of Political and Social Turmoil The Governor-General’s Visit (1877) The Lost Treasure Corduroy Roads The Caribou Bog First Nations Employed on the Line (1868-1871) Working on the Dawson Road (1926-1928) A Naturally Abundant Landscape Forest Fire of 1897 Plight of a Luckless Traveler (1874) Harrison Creek: Gateway to Manitoba Birch River Station for Weary Travelers Manitoba Industrial Prison Farm Clean Water for Winnipeg East Braintree G.W.W.D. Worker Camp Scrip - ‘essentially the largest land swindle’ Red River Military Expeditions Dawson Route and Treaties No. 1 and No. 3 Chief Na-Sa-Kee-by-Ness and Road Negotiations Impact of the Homestead Act (1919)

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Eagle Bus Lines bus in Prairie Grove, Manitoba on the Dawson Trail. Heather, D. (1968). Prairie Grove 1872-1968 (P.269). Manitoba Local Histories. UM Archives. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10719/3101128

“Eagle Bus Lines was started in 1938 by Herve Duguay. His first bus covered McMunn, East Braintree, Prawda, Medika, Hadashville, and the second one handled Ross, Ste. Geneviève, Rosswood, Dufresne, Lorette and Prairie Grove. One bus was called the “worker’s bus” as it went early in the morning arriving in Prairie Grove about 7 am so people could catch it to go to jobs in Winnipeg. The buses had a stop on Provencher in St. Boniface and then on to a depot just west of Eaton’s mail order building on Hargrave Street. The early bus drivers were Romeo and Roland Duguay of Ste. Anne, Leo Ross and Ewald Swan of Ross, Leo Dubois and Edouard Manaigre of Lorette. The bus line also owned an 18 passenger bombardier that they would use on the “worker’s run” when the roads were badly blocked by snow. Eddie and Walter Petura of Ste. Anne were the last owners and drivers of the bus line.”

Diane Heather, resident historian of Prairie Grove

Source: Heather, D. (1968). Prairie Grove 1872-1968 (P.269). Manitoba Local Histories. UM Archives. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10719/3101128

Roméo Duguay (bus driver) and Jos Legal circa late 1940s. Source: Heather, D. (1968). Prairie Grove 1872-1968 (P.269). Manitoba Local Histories. UM Archives. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10719/3101128

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