Overview

Excerpt from Manitoba: Its Infancy, Growth, and Present Condition Also after the manner of the farmer let me follow the crooked plough, while the oxen break up the fields that are lying ready to be worked, said Tibullus the ancient in one of his Elegies. At the present time the name of Manitoba suggests such thoughts as these of Tibullus to thousands of those with whom the world is going hard in Great Britain and Ireland. One object in view in this work is to make it somewhat real to those who are looking towards Manitoba, the great prairie land. The writer is neither a Government emigration agent, a special correspondent, nor a candidate for political honours, but simply one who has led a most busy life in connexion with the educational and social improvement of the Canadian North-West for the last ten years, and has tried to keep his eyes open during that eventful period. One object of the present work is to collect together the various recollections connected with the names, Hudson's Bay Territory, Rupert's Land, Assiniboia, Red River Settlement, and Selkirk Colony - names that have been mainly swallowed up in the Manitoba of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

Full Product Details

9781332611355

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available