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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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“While Simon James Dawson was in overall charge of the project, a party was sent to Fort Garry to work on the stretch of road between the Red River and Lake of the Woods. This was supervised by John A. Snow, a friend of Hon. William McDougall, the ill-starred governor-designate of the western territories who never did get to Fort Garry to set up his government.

"Snow had recruited some key members of his party in Ontario, and hired local labour when he got to Fort Garry. Among the men he brought from Ontario were Charles Mair and Thomas Scott, both of whom were to become well known, if not notorious.”

Don Aiken

Source: Aiken, D. (1988, May 6). Heritage Highlights. Winnipeg Real Estate News. Also in Feilberg, E., & Annell, L. (1989). Pioneer History of Glenn, East Braintree & McMunn (P.18-25). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10719/2239350

University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Nor'Wester July 10, 1869, Page 3. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2744361/manitoba_metadata

"Snow's men plowed out claims for large tracts of land. They boasted that as soon as Canada took possession, their claims would be secured. The road workers broke into Métis houses and took them over for long dancing and drinking parties. The terrified women and children were held prisoner and prevented from escaping for help. The Métis leader in Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes was Augustin Nolin, and he was not a man who would complacently accept any interference with his family, his land or his relatives, the Ojibwa. Nolin seized Snow and brought him to Fort Garry to be dealt with by the Court of Assiniboia."

Jean Teillet

Source: Teillet, J. (2019). The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People (p. 166). Published by Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Retrieved June 22, 2020 from https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443450140/the-north-west-is-our-mother/

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