... the words of Your Excellency's reply, spoken at the capital of the Dominion, will be listened to at Fort Garry. We may now count in hours the work that used to occupy weeks. I congratulate Your Excellency on the facility so afforded in the discharge of your high duties, so far as they concern the Province. I know I can better discharge my own when at any moment I may appeal to Your Lordship for advice and assistance. "(Signed) ADAMS G. ARCHIBALD.

I received your message with great satisfaction. The completion of the telegraph line to Fort Garry is an auspicious event. It forms a fresh and most important link between the Eastern Provinces and the North-West, and is a happy augury for the future, inasmuch as it gives proof of the energy with which the union, wisely effected, of Her Majesty's North American possessions enables progress and civilization to be advanced in different and far-distant portions of the Dominion. I congratulate the inhabitants...

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Page 48 The first telegraphic message from the heart of the continent may appropriately convey, on the part of our people, an expression of devout thankfulness to Almighty God for the close of our isolation from the rest of the world. This message announces that close, as its receipt by your Excellency will attest it. The voice of Manitoba collected this morning on the banks of the Assiniboine will be heard in a few hours on the banks of the Ottawa, and we may hope before the day closes that the words of... Appears in 7 books from 1879-1918

Page 7 We had no bank, no insurance office, no lawyers, only one doctor, no city council, only one policeman, no taxes, nothing And as if geographical distance and social isolation were not enough consider too the political immaturity of the community. Appears in 6 books from 1879-2006

Page 176 The following is a list of the officers and members of the board of trustees as of that date : OFFICERS. Appears in 19 books from 1830-1973

Page 212 Consignments of hardy agriculturalists from two to five hundred strong, were landed at St. Boniface day after day, many of these parties bringing to this land of promise a combined capital of three to four hundred thousand dollars.^ Distractions and hazards beset the newcomers at every turn, however. Appears in 3 books from 1879-1979

Page 59 York, pursuant to notice, the following gentlemen were appointed a Committee to make the necessary arrangements for a suitable demonstration of respect for Mr. COOPER'S memory : WASHINGTON IRVING, GEORGE BANCROFT, GULIAN C. Appears in 4 books from 1841-1974

Page 88 No. 10, where he continued to reside until the day of his death, which occurred in 1806. Appears in 7 books from 1830-1928

Page 17 IB hereby given that an application will be made, at the first meeting of the Legislature of Manitoba, for an Act to incorporate a joint stock company for the construction of a railway from some point on Lake Manitoba, passing through the Town of Winnipeg, and to connect with the nearest of the Minnesota railways. DUNCAN SINCLAIR, Fort Garry, Nov. Appears in 5 books from 1840-1974

Page 6 These wild children of the prairie were wont to make their presence known in our midst, for with drinking, gambling, fighting, dancing, laughing, talking, swearing, horse-racing, trading and singing, they made a perfect babel of the place... Appears in 3 books from 1879-1977

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