The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-20
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DR.. George Bryce, who is at the.
head of Manitoba college at Winnipeg,
spoke to, the students at convocation
today. His subject was, Points Of
Historic Interest Connecting North
|. Dakota and Manitoba"
Prof. Bryce is graduate of Toronto
university and while there, was cap
tain of the football team. He founded
Manitoba college in 1871. which insti-
tuition ts now one of the five colleges
affiliated with the University of Mani
toba. He has written several books
on the history of western Canadian
provinces. As an author, educator,
and clergyman, he is known in Eng
land as we'll as in America.
+ DR.. Bryce, began his address by
speaking of the friendship which had
so long. existed between his country
and the United States; and hoped that
the same good feeling might continue
to exist, not only between Great Bri-
tain and the United States, but be-
tween the University of Manitoba and
North Dakota as well.
The speaker said that the Province
OF Manitoba was formed out of the
territory of Pupert's Land, which had
been under the government of the
Hudson's Bay Co., for over two hun
dred years. By an imperial act this
territory was handed over to Can,
ada; and from 1t the Province Of Man
itoba was formed, blu the Canadian
parliament in 1870. -. -,
DR.. Bryce himself was sent by the
government in 1871 to Fort Garry, the
present site of Winnipeg. His mis-
sion was to, found Manitoba college
and to organize the First Presbyterian
church at Winnipeg
Personal Relaialsesnces.
II left Toronto in October in the
year. 1871. We had to sgo by the way
of ST. Paul, Mimi, to reach Winnipeg.
The railway at that time had not been
built any further than to- Morris,
Mimi. From there we had, to travel
400 miles by stage. Two weeks be-
fore we arrived the stage, which had
been transferred from Nebraska, be-
gan to run between the town of Nor
ris and Winnipeg. 1t was commodi-
GUS stage, with seating capacity for
eight persons 1t was drawn by four
horses and changed for every sixteen
miles. The principal thing which 1
remember was the varied and pro-
fuse profanity of the drivers.
1--WE passed through Moorhead,
where to the N. p. railroad had not,
as, yet, reached. Moorhead was then
but a town of few tent houses.
which always keep little in advance
of the new RAILROADS. We crossed the
Red river at Georgetown, and then
came down on the west side to Grand
Forks. TheEe was then no village of
Grand Forks, just, a few houses here
and there. Only about thirty people
could be found in the entire neigh
borhood. #lst 1.a s3.
Tie Formation Or the Territory.
"The first occupation, of this the
territory of North Dakota and Mani
toba was Canadian This was brought
about by the Northwestern Fur Co..
of Montreal, Traders came by the
way of Lake Superior and Lake Win
ntpeg. In 1895 they reached the Red
river, coming. down the, Assiniboine
river also. No fort was, as yet, es-
tablished by the fur company on this
side OF Winnipeg. The first fort on
the Red river was built in 1895 by
Peter Grant-a fur trader from Mon
treal. f'.7
4. I'm. 1898 David Thompson, the sur
.veyOr Of the Northwestern Fur Co.
came up the Red river and surveyed
fur stations; one of them being at
Grand Forks, at that time being called
! the Upper Red River Fort. He also
visited forts in Minnesota, namely Red
Lake, Cedar Lake and Fond du Lac
or Duluth.
Boundary Line.
BY the treaty. of Paris, 1888, the
4 boundary line, which ran from Lake
Superior up the natural water courses
followed by the. traders, to the north
west angle of Lake Of the Woods. 1t
was, by the treaty, to go west to the