A Handbook to Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba

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Excerpt from A Handbook to Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba: Prepared for the 79th Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1909, With Notes on Some of the Chief Points to Be Visited on the Western ExcursionAs to population, Manitoba began with some people in 1870, and now is estimated to possess about of a population, partly made up of large num bers of foreigners from the continent of Europe, as well as of many settlers from the United Sates.Two great problems have, in the provincial history of nearly forty years, been of transcendent importance. First came the great agitation for obtaining in the face of the bargain with the Canadian Pacific Railway the right Of the province to build its own railways. This fierce and determined struggle ended in the province gaining the same rights in this respect as those possessed by any other province. The other question, which for some ten years, disturbed the province and even spread into an excitement over the whole Dominion, was the introduction of a non-denominational system of public school education. This question was also decided in favor of the province.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.