. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. ith the way it had actuallybeen taken up by the settlers resident upon it. In accordance with wellrecognized precedent, this letter was left unanswered for a little over sixmonths. Then Mr. A. Burgess, on behalf of the Minister of the Interior,replied in the negative (September 21, 1882). Meantime, the followingpetition had been forwarded to Ottawa. \\hile it does not differ materiallyfrom many others of which we have been six-aking, it deserves the readerscareful consideration : St. .toine de Padou. South Saskatchewan, September 4, the
. History of Saskatchewan and the Old North West. ith the way it had actuallybeen taken up by the settlers resident upon it. In accordance with wellrecognized precedent, this letter was left unanswered for a little over sixmonths. Then Mr. A. Burgess, on behalf of the Minister of the Interior,replied in the negative (September 21, 1882). Meantime, the followingpetition had been forwarded to Ottawa. \\hile it does not differ materiallyfrom many others of which we have been six-aking, it deserves the readerscareful consideration : St. .toine de Padou. South Saskatchewan, September 4, the Right Ibmorable Sir John .\. ^lacDonald,Minister of the Interior,Ottawa, : We. the undersigned French Ilalfbreeds, for the most part settled onthe west bank of the Saskatchewan in the district of Prince Albert. NorthWesi Territories, hereby approach you. in order to set forth with confidencethe painful position in which we are jilaced. with reference to the landsoccuj^ied by us in this portion of the Territory, and in order to call the. \::. -KING EOWAPD SCHOOL L , :^iM ? ?^^i>;Sfirtis=^.>iii-i^. ^iii^l ^ :_J 1 / tr Buildings ::;SS SCHOOL jl SASKATOON HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN 255 atteiUioii of the Government to llie question which causes us so muclianxiety. Compelled, most of us, to abandon tlie prairie, which can no longerfurnish us the means of subsistence, we came in large numbers, during thecourse of the summer, and settled on the south branch of the with the land and country, we set ourselves actively to work- clearingthe land both in the hope of sowing next spring and also to prepare ourhouses for the winter now rapidly ajiproaching. The surveyed lands beingalready occupied or sold, we were compelled to occupy lands not yet sur-veyed, being ignorant, for the most part, also, of the regulations of theGo\ernment respecting Dominion lands. Great was our astonishment and]Kr]ikxity when we were notified that when the lands a
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