Excerpt from A Rebellion: A Story of the Red River Uprising At the period of the Red River Rebellion there was not a line of railway beyond Thunder Bay, near which the two thriving cities of Fort William and Port Arthur now stand. Beyond that it was a case of boat and portage in summer, and dog trains and snowshoes in winter. For instance, it took Wolseley's troops, with their heavy equipment, a number of weeks to traverse from Thunder Bay to Fort Garry, a distance now accomplished in a little over twelve hours by rail. ...
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Excerpt from A Rebellion: A Story of the Red River Uprising At the period of the Red River Rebellion there was not a line of railway beyond Thunder Bay, near which the two thriving cities of Fort William and Port Arthur now stand. Beyond that it was a case of boat and portage in summer, and dog trains and snowshoes in winter. For instance, it took Wolseley's troops, with their heavy equipment, a number of weeks to traverse from Thunder Bay to Fort Garry, a distance now accomplished in a little over twelve hours by rail. And of Winnipeg itself what shall be said? The little Selkirk settlement has become a great and an abounding city, with all the airs of a metropolis, and an illimitable future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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