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- What is the Dawson Trail?
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- Is Dawson Trail Navigable Today?
- Route of the Dawson Trail
- Commemorating the Dawson Trail
- Historic Significance
- Dawson Road in Saint Boniface
- The Dawson Trail : A Centennial Project
- Link Between Manitoba and Ontario
- Dawson Trail: Symbol of Togetherness
- Estimated Costs of the Dawson Route
- Historic Maps of Dawson Trail
- The Dawson Trail Today
- Virtual Dawson Road Adventure Tour
- HERITAGE TOUR
- Dawson Trail Heritage Tour
- Saint-Boniface
- Lagimodière Boulevard
- Prairie Grove
- Red River Ox Cart Exhibit
- Notre Dame de Lorette Church
- Lorette: “Petite-Pointe-des-Chênes”
- Lorette Community Complex
- Dufresne Grain Elevator
- “La Grande Traverse”
- Sainte-Anne: Grande pointe des chênes
- Pioneer Park Exhibit
- Sainte-Anne Old Municipal Hall
- Sainte Anne des Chênes Roman Catholic Church
- Parc des Rédemptoristes
- Old Finnigan Bridge / Old HBC Post
- Seine River Crossing
- Where the Forest Meets the Western Prairies
- La Coulèe des Ressources
- Côteau Pelé, aka Harrison’s Ridge
- Thurston Park Exhibits
- Corduroy Road Exhibit
- Richer: Côteau des chênes
- Enfant-Jésus Heritage Site Exhibit
- Dawson Trail Park Exhibits
- Lac Bossé
- Coulée St-Onge
- Brokenhead River Crossing
- East End of Current Dawson Road
- East Braintree
- Harrison Creek
- Ross Church Bell Monument
- Ste. Geneviève and “la poche aux lièvres”
- Monseigneur-Taché Historic Site
- Centre of Canada Park
- Heritage Tour Locations List
- Suggested Itineraries
- HISTORICAL NUGGETS
- 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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