The Book of the West / The story of western Canada, its birth and early adventures, its youthful combats, its peaceful settlement, its great transformation, and its present ways

by Howard Angus Kennedy

Mounted Police Chasing

Whiskey Smugglers

A Returned Canadian

Home Seeking

Astonished, the officer asked what the corporal would [a]Two Were Enough] do if the Indians turned sulky—there were more than a hundred of them. “They won’t,” said the corporal promptly; “we shall have no trouble with them.” Nor did they. The tribesmen went quietly back to their reserves, like lambs.

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THE GREAT DIVIDE

CHAPTER VIII
Our First and Last Indian War

THERE were only fifteen hundred white folk in Manitoba at the time of the trouble in 1870, but around them lived ten thousand people of mixed race. Three-fifths of these owed their white blood to French voyageurs; the rest drew theirs chiefly from Scots higher up in the Hudson’s Bay service.