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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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* Pointe des chênes / Oak Point is Sainte-Anne

“The next section of the country is of a totally different character. It is light and sandy, getting more and more so, every ten miles or so further west. This total change in the character of the soil afforded a rich feast to our Botanist. In the course of the day he came on two or three distinct floras; and, although not many of the species were new, and, in general features, the production of the heavy and the light soils were similar to those of like land farther east in Ontario and the Lower Provinces, yet the luxuriance and variety were amazing. He counted over four hundred different species in this one day’s ride.

"Great was the astonishment of our teamsters, when they saw him make a bound from his seat on the wagon to the ground, and rush to the plain, wood, or marsh. At first, they all hauled up to see what was the matter. It must be gold or silver he had found; but when he came back triumphantly waving a flower or bunch of grass, and exclaiming: “Did you ever see the like of that?” “No, I never,” was the general response from every disgusted teamster.”

Sir Sanford Fleming’s Expedition Through Canada 1872

Source: Grant, George Monro, 1835-1902. (1873). Ocean to ocean: Sandford Fleming’s expedition through Canada in 1872 (P.59). Being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the expedition of the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railways. BC Historical Books. Diaries. Retrieved June 3, 2020, from https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0221770

Parkland meadows in Manitoba along the Dawson Trail east of Richer near Sandilands Provincial Forest. Retrieved from Winnipeg Free Press Homes 0 Dawson Road, R0E 1S0 for sale Rural Manitoba, R06

Parkland meadows in Manitoba along the Dawson Trail near Richer today. Retrieved from https://homes.winnipegfreepress.com/house-for-sale/House-for-sale-0-Dawson-Road-Rural-Winnipeg-R06/id-119010

Prairie transition along the Dawson Road east of Richer today near Sandilands Provincial Forest. Retrieved from Winnipeg Free Press Homes 0 Dawson Road, R0E 1S0 for sale Rural Manitoba, R06

Vegetation along the Dawson Road near Sandilands Provincial Forest east of Richer, Manitoba. Retrieved from Winnipeg Free Press Homes 0 Dawson Road, R0E 1S0 for sale Rural Manitoba, R06

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