. Manitoba and the great North-West [microform] : the field for investment; the home of the emigrant, being a full and complete history of the country .... Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. ' ( i f ,' 1 1 1 1 â < 1 ii 1 1 1 474 MANITOBA AND THE GREAT NORTH-WEST. sources. By wlioiiisoi^vor a fiilHO HtatcniLMit Iuih been miulc, I havo iiu't it witli proiuj)! denial and have always given my reasoMH for so doing. There is one elasH of speakers, how- ever, to whom I have mtulu no answer. This class are representativeH of the people, and if they make statementH at va
. Manitoba and the great North-West [microform] : the field for investment; the home of the emigrant, being a full and complete history of the country .... Agriculture; Natural history; Agriculture; Sciences naturelles. ' ( i f ,' 1 1 1 1 â < 1 ii 1 1 1 474 MANITOBA AND THE GREAT NORTH-WEST. sources. By wlioiiisoi^vor a fiilHO HtatcniLMit Iuih been miulc, I havo iiu't it witli proiuj)! denial and have always given my reasoMH for so doing. There is one elasH of speakers, how- ever, to whom I have mtulu no answer. This class are representativeH of the people, and if they make statementH at variance with known factu, it is not my province to dis- pute them. Prcvioua to 1874, the site of the present city of Emi^son was merely a prairie with small cultivated patches here and there, and no indications of a city in the future were apparent. The nearest point at which any signs of a settle- ment were visible was where the old Hudson's Bay Com- pany's post existed, just across the boundary line, while three miles distant, on the American side also, was the hamlet of Pembina, and the united settlers at both places, at the beginning of the year we have mentioned, did not exceed 150 persons. In the spring of this year, Messrs. Thomas Carney and W. N. Fairbanks had 640 acres of the present city site laid out into lots, and the same summer Mr. F. T. Bradley and Captain Ash laid out 200 acres more. Thus the original town plot of the city included 840 acres, an extent un- usually large and certainly indicative of great faith on the part of the founders of the city. People in other portions of the North-West began to believe that it was possible for a town to exist here, and before the winter of 1874 had set in quite a few business institutions of various descrip- tions were permanently located in the village. The proprietors of the town site of Emerson acted with a spirit of great liberality in those days. They sold their lots quite cheap, and assisted in the establishment of a
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