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Settlement Of the Red River Valley

Manitoba Free Press: There are now
some thirty thousand French speak
Ing souls In the He'd River valley, dis
trtbuted in the counties Of Provench-
er. Lsgar, MacD Donald and Selkirk.
Six thousand OF this number are to
be found In the city Of Winnipeg and
st Boniface. The others live on the
land. Out Of thiss- number also six
thousand are French-speaking. half
breeds. This may be said to be the
result Of q half century Of effort to
attract French settlers to the shores
Of the Rouge.
Prior to 1850 little effort had been
made to induce the Catholic population
to take up land outside Of st. Boni-
face. The chase, the fur trade and
packing for the Hudson Bay company
afforded the halfbreed far easier liv-
ing than they ever expected to derive
from the coil. It was In that year
that Mgr. Tache succeeded in group
ing quite q number of these hunters
on the White Horse Plains, at st.
Francois Xavier and shortly after a
smaller settlement was established Mt
st. Charles. st. Francois had its
church and school from the beginning
but st. Charles remained an itinerant
mission for many years.
Mgr. Tache and Colonization.
Such was the extent, of progress
for decade. But the years 1S5S-1S60
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to this agitation came from Montreal
and the surrounding parishes of st.
Jacques rAchigan. st. Cuthbert and
lAssomption. They gathered In the
church Of Metre Dame de Bon-secours
and took part in religious ceremonies
which recalled the days OF Champlain.
Leaving Montreal on the 21st day Of
August this party arrived in st. Boni-
face on the Goth Of September. Those
who did not settle in the town were
mostly directed towards Ste. Anne du
Chene.
These were followed in the spring
OF 1872 by another contingent whose
coming gave the first impetus to the
new parishes founded by Mgr. Tache.
The first settlers of these parishes,
however, were Metis. The pioneers of
ST.. Pierre were the Noult. Tourond,
Vermette, Marcel Roy, Martin Je-
rome and others from st. Vital and st.
Norbert. Lorette was established in
1873 by Metis families from Ste. Anne.
Ste. Agathe had as first settlers Metis
from st. Norbert, Antoine, Joseph, Rog-
er and Louis Vandal, Prosper Du-
charme, Amable Beaudry, Daniel Bran
CONNER. The priests who were most
prominent in directing these settle
ments were the late Mgr. Ritchot and
Abbes Giroux, Filion and Proulx.
Charles Lalime. Boomer.
About this time there came to the
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chre, Girard. Taking the Davidson
route they reached st. Boniface on
the 1st Of June. Other parties came
the same year from Montreal and New
England. 1t Ia estimated that this i'm
migration amounted to 600 during the
season, an increase which was partly
nullified by the migration of large
numbers of Metis westward and north
westward.
Some of the newcomers put in crops
of barley and potatoes that year on
lands granted them by Manager Tache;
the others took up land on the Red
river south of Ste Agathe.
The next personally conducted"
party which MIR. Lalime brought in the
spring of 1877 was hardly more for
tunate. The lands which had been set
aside for them were found to be flood
ed and it became necessary to find an
other location. This was the begin
ming of Letellier, thus named after
the minister of agriculture. Mr.. Let
ellier de st. Just, afterwards lieuten-
ant-governor Of Quebec. The expecta-
lions aroused in the breasts Of the
immigrants had been so great that a
reaction now set in both against the
country and against Lalime, who was
often threatened with personal vio-
lence so that he FASTENED his depart
ure. Many of the intending settlers
were not far behind him on the road
back to New England.
Foundation Of Letellier and st. Joseph.
Enough however, remained to enable
Manager Tache to give economical
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1921, so that st. Boniface and
its dependent parishes received few
new recruits. But Immediately peace
had been restored in the province,
Mgr. Tache resumed his dream Of set
thing the Red River valley with his
countrymen from the province of Que
bee.
First Settlers from the East.
That was period when thousands
of farmers from the old province were
flocking to the factories of New Eng
land every season and the bishop of
st. Boniface strongly appealed to his
colleagues of the clergy to divert that
stream of emigration towards Mani
toba. The latter had little love for the
institutions Of the republic and gladly
lent their assistance. Colonization So
cieties were formed under their aus
pices to direct emigration to the Red
river. Mgr. Tache conceived great
hopes. He himself brought with him
young men of promise, such as Mr.
Dubuc, the chief justice; Mr.. Royal,
afterwards minister and lieutenant
governor of the Northwest Territories;
Mr.. Girard, who became premier of
the province, etc. A French. paper,
LIE Metis, was started in st. Boniface.
The bishop also formed new parishes
to receive the expected immigration.
st. Pierre, st. Jean Baptiste and Ste.
Agathe were thus located in 1871 and
1872.
The first important party to respond
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anything but those of revolutionist.
Finally Lalime engineered a great re-
union of the emigrated French Can
adams in Montreal where the practical
and sentimental reasons in favor of
repatriation were strongly impressed
upon them. A great wave of. enthus-
iasm was thus created.
Settlers from New England.
In the summer of 1875 a party of
delegates from the French Canadian
colony came to inspect the country.
After few months sojourn they
promised Manager Tache that they
would return to settle. Among them
was Mr.. Louis MARCEL, now of Ste.
Elizabeth.
Rev. F. Lacombe visited New Eng
land in 1875 to assist in the propa-
ganda, and on the 5th of May follow
ing 105 settlers of whom Is adult males
left Worcester for Manitoba. They
came by way of Kingston and Sarnia,
thence by water. On the 18th of May,
when within 200 miles of Duluth, their
progress was checked by immense ice
fields and it was not until the 22nd
that they could make their destina-
ton. AS there was famine on board,
some of the men had to get on the
ice and walk to port, suffering great
hardships, many feet and ears being
frozen Among those In the party were
DR.. Tremblay, Messrs. L'Heureux,
Brault, P. Gagnon, Bertrand, Marcoux,
Marcille, Lefronce. May, Pepin, Le-
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erection to the parishes of st. Jean
Baptiste, st. Joseph and st. Pie (Let-
ellier). 1t is estimated that 400 French
Canadian families had come from the
east during the season of 1877.
This year Oliver and Frederic Lafre-
Mere, Joseph Charbonneau and Daniel
Fraser took up the first lands in Penn
bina mountains and this was the be-
ginning of the parish of st. Leon. .
In the spring of 1873 Laline man
aged to send out nearly 500 more set
tiers and a large number came directly
from Quebec. The boom caused by the
construction of the railway kept up
the flow of immigration from all parts
Of the world and the French Canadians
took their part in the frantic specula-
ton of the day to begin with Leuten-
ant-Governor Couchon.
But when the collapse came there
was general scramble to get back
east. Even those who had been
satisfied to devote their attention to
farming hardly felt satisfied with their
situation. 1t has been said that as a
settler the French Canadian has no
superior on timbered land. But used
as he is to mixed farming on his little
narrow farm of forty arpents, with
neighbors within shouting distance on
each side of him, with groves and riv-
ulets to embellish his landscape, he
finds himself at sea on the broad, fiat
prairie, practically-at that time at
least-cut off from social intercourse
and compelled to learn new methods
of agriculture. Many gave up before
the good times returned. But those
persevered have become thoroughly &C.
climatized and the children know moth
ing but western ways. Many of these
settlers have accumulated consider
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assistance of Mgr. Tache an influence
far more effective than all his clerical
aids. There lived in Worcester, Mass,
young French-C Canadian lawyer who
had positive genius for propaganda
for booming" His name was Charles
Lalime and he is still living in Boston.
When the Vermont Central railway
was completed a few years previous
to this date he had been employed as
passenger agent with instructions to
secure traffic at any cost. A story
is told that after cutting rates to the
limit to induce French Canadian
family to take his road to New Eng
land point he found that the farmer
still did not have enough cash to, pay
for the tickets required by his num-
erous progeny. But l have a small
bull which / would like to SELL" said
the would-be emigrant. CAL right"
promptly replied Lalime, "I'll take the
bull for the balance" Tho animal
was brought to the ticket Office and
accepted in part payment for the
tickets.
After having drawn many OF his
countrymen from Quebec to New Eng
land by such energetic canvassing, La
lime now resolved to repatriate them
and direct them towards Manitoba.
His brother-in-law controlled the most
influential French Canadian paper in
New England and he made use of it.
He also induced Louis Riel, then a
fugitive from justice. to deliver a SER
les of lectures in the New England
towns. On this occasion the Metis
chief devoted himself to advertising
the resources of Manitoba and gener-
ously eschewed any bitter reference to
the political events with which he had
been identified. His speeches were
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able fortunes and practically none cal
be said to be poor.

able fortunes and practically none can
be said to be poor.
Recent Growth.
Despite the adverse circumstances
referred to above the population con-
tinued to increase steadily during the
decade from 1879 to 1888, as is evil
denced by the multiplication of their
religious institutions. The parishes of
st. Joachim, st. Alphonse, st. Eliza
beth, st. Adolphe are creations of that
period.
Since the advent of the present per-
iod of prosperity every locality is
growing in number and wealth and the
authorities find themselves able every
year to cut out new parishes out of
the old ones. A feature of this last
decade has been the relatively large
increase in the immigration from Bel
GUM and France, which has led to
the extension of colonization westward.
Thus were founded Notre Dame de
Lourdes, st. Claude and Bruxelles, to
be followed by the establishment Of
many other missions every other year.
The creation of these parishes is the
best index Of the growth of the French
population almost exclusively Catho-
lie. Outside of engaging in local COM
merce, they have have shown little
disposition to go into industrial enter
prises. Yet in its way the French race
is doing we'll, as in the past for the
development of Manitoba.
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Boniface was brought within twelve
days of Montreal. AS Archbishop
Tache reviewed the changes which had
taken place since he had come into
the country sixteen years before, his
minds eye saw the onward march Of
progress, the possibilities of the future
and he FASTENED to organize his peo-
pie as best he could. It was during
these years that the parishes of st.
Norbert, Ste. Anne du Chene and st.
Laurent were founded, each being pro-
vided with a school from the begin
ming and special efforts being made to
induce the people to till the soil. st.
Boniface had in 1860 population Of
1,400, st. Francois Xavier, 1900; st.
the Red River settlement was about
ers who lived on the plains most of
This population was almost exclu-
about the task of attracting immigra-
ton from the province of Quebec. He
wrote several pamphlets describing
the natural resources of the west, and
his extensive travels enabled him to
make them interesting as we'll as
authoritative. In 1929 he visited
Lower Canada to pursue his propa-
ganda, but he went under most un-
suspicious circumstances. His cathe-
dral had been burned before he left
and after he reached Montreal the
news followed him that the colony was
threatened with famine through floods.
grasshoppers and the failure of the
annual hunt. Instead of inviting set
tiers he was forced rather to ask for
aims.
Then came the troublous times of
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Sherifrs Sale.

BY virtue of a special execution is
sued out of and under the seal of the
district court in and for the county OF
Grand Forks and State of North Da-
kota, upon judgment and decree rem
dered and docketed in said court on
the 18th day of May, 1907, in an ac-
ton wherein G. NJ. English and w. L..
Pickard, co-partners as English &
Pickard, were plaintiffs and L. E..
Prime was defendant, in favor of the
said plaintiffs and against said defend
ant for Four Hundred Eighty-One and
S4-100 ($4S1.S4) dollars, and Twenty
eight and 25-100 ($2S.25) dollars ac-
crued costs, said judgment and decree
having been duly docketed in the Of
flee of the clerk of the district court
aforesaid on the 18th day of May,
1907, which special execution was di-
rected and delivered to me as sheriff
of the said county of Grand Forks, the
judgment and decree under which said
special execution was issued directing,
authorizing and requiring ME as such
sheriff to sell the real property here
matter described, to satisfy the
amount of said judgment, with interest
and the costs and expenses of SALE
Now by virtue of said judgment and
decree, and said special execution,
l, o. G. Hanson, sheriff of said county,
and the person appointed by said court
to make said sale, will sell the here
matter described real property stu
ated and being in the county of Grand
Forks and State of North Dakota,
to-wit:
The northeast quarter (NEA) Of
fuyo Nv vryC
half of the northwest quarter OWE
NWA) and the west half of the south
west quarter (W1a SWA) of section
fifteen (15), all In township one hun
dred fifty-two (152) north of range
flfty-six (56) west.
The said real property having been
attached in this action, the said levy
being made on the goth day of Novem-
Der, 1906.
Notice is hereby given, that said sale
will be made by the undersigned, as
sheriff aforesaid, at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, at the
front door of the court house in the
city of Grand Forks, county of Grand
Forks and State of North Dakota, at
the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon
of Saturday, the 22nd day of June, A.
d., 1907.
Dated Grand Forks. N. D., May II.
A. D.. 1907.
o. G. Hanson, sheriff of Grand
Forks county, North Dakota.
Geo. A. Bangs, attorney for plain
tiffs.
May II. "a. 81 and June 2. "A and 21.
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NOTICE rs HEEEBY GIVEN, that TIE sui
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County, deceased. All persons having claims
against she deceased, are hereby warned -
erhiblt the same. with the vouchers, there
Of. 70 the subscriber. on or before the
9Th DAY or FEBRUARY, 1893.
They may otherwise, By law, be sxciudsd
from All benefits Of the said estate. All DsF-
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make immediate payment
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2S0slce IL hereby given, that the subscriber, OF
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Orphans C0ugt OF Anne Arundel county, IN
Maryland, Letters TestamcEtary on the personal
estate OF JAMES =. TAYLOR, late OF Anne
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10 exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof,
20 the subscriber. on O. before the
18th DAY OF NOVEMBER. 1907.
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from All bcnedt Of the said estate. All persons
Indebted to said estate are requested TO make
Immediate payment
Given under my hand this TIN day OF May.
1907.
BERTHA TAYLOR,
ms Executrfx.
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