Author : William J. Healy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0266760988
Winnipeg's Early Days by William J. Healy Pdf
Excerpt from Winnipeg's Early Days: A Short Historical Sketch A historian bent on blocking out history into definite, cleancut eras, each ending as an act of a play ends with the fall of the curtain, which rises presently to disclose a new stage setting for the next act, would say that the old Red River era ended on Tuesday, August 23, 1870. He would make it end on that day, because on that day the expedition under the command of Colonel Wolseley trudged through a heavy rain, ankle-deep in mud, along the river road which is now Main Street and went into the Fort by the northwest gateway less than an hour after Louis Riel and the remnant of his Provisional Government galloped away out of the river gateway and vanished into the rain. But though it is true that the conditions of life as they were then passed away in a few years' time, a great deal of what was most characteristic of the old Red River era continued to blend with the life of Winnipeg for two or three decades after 1870. 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.
