The National Dream

For homesteading to happen, the people presently living on the prairies had to be dealt with. This was the numbered treaties as mentioned in previous blogs.  Read here about that

1. Manitoba Confederation, B.C. Confederation, the signing of the treaties then the engineering feet of the railway across Canada. This is all done for what?

-Then to help with the transformation to an agricultural economy, and solidify the country, this was built. 

Then the wave of immigration 

Coming to Manitoba

Free land, well, not quite free, and you had to do a few things, and the deal was only available to certain people