In 1906, a government cartographer sketched a small oval on a map of the North-West, sparking a global stampede that would populate the Canadian prairies with “raw ambition.”
I don’t know how you can turn out interesting, well-written pieces like this on a wide variety of subjects — I particularly appreciate your wide-ranging interests — faster, it seems, than I can read them! I feel like a laggard.
"... they were engineering a demographic explosion to secure the territory before the United States or stagnation could claim it."
I don’t know how you can turn out interesting, well-written pieces like this on a wide variety of subjects — I particularly appreciate your wide-ranging interests — faster, it seems, than I can read them! I feel like a laggard.
Growing up in Winnipeg and them Regina, this was fascinating history of which I formerly knew just a fragment! Thanks so much !!