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Usage examples of pembina.

The Montreal Company were also to obtain the extension of the Minnesota telegraph to your boundary near Pembina, you extending your telegraph to that point.

If the plan of union shall only be accepted in regard to the north western territory and the Pacific Provinces, the United States will aid the construction, on the terms named, of a railway from the western extremity of Lake Superior, in the State of Minnesota, by way of Pembina, Fort Garry, and the valley of the Saskatchewan, to the Pacific coast, north of latitude forty-nine degrees, besides securing all the rights and privileges of an American territory to the proposed territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan, and Columbia.

After arriving in St Boniface, the Countess was put to work by Whitehead building a southbound line along the east side of the Red River to Pembina, where a connection would be made with the U.

But a competing syndicate, led by Smith and including his cousin George Stephen, had already applied for a railway charter to serve the link between the border town of Pembina and Winnipeg-just sixty miles away.

Smith was also protecting his private investment in the Pembina venture.

Back in Ottawa as one of Mackenzies most influential advisers, Smith began to lobby for his Pembina charter.

Construction was painfully slow, but by the spring of 150 LABRADOR SMITH 1878 the Pembina Branch was snaking the sixty miles to the American border.

The Liberal governments final official act was to grant Smith, Stephen and their partners the ten-vear running rights on the Pembina Branch line they had requested.

We started off, cast, toward Pembina and the Red River because Henry said he wanted to see the high water.

With them the Selkirk settlers proceed south to Pembina and the Boundary to hunt buffalo.

If the plan of union shall only be accepted in regard to the north-western territory and the Pacific Provinces, the United States will aid the construction, on the terms named, of a railway from the western extremity of Lake Superior, in the State of Minnesota, by way of Pembina, Fort Garry and the Valley of the Saskatchewan, to the Pacific Coast, north of latitude 49 deg.

All of their armament was seized and they were marched back as prisoners to Pembina and handed over to the United States authorities.

Riel had posted armed guards at various points along the trails leading from Pembina to Fort Garry for the purpose of resisting the advance of Lieutenant-Governor Macdougall, and as there was not a sufficient force available to overcome the rebels, he was obliged to remain where he was.

Hal Cotter from Pembina, Jack Lambert from Towner, and Gerry Kruse from the state.

When the news of the war fell upon the Pembina Valley, it did not greatly disturb the peacefulness of that secluded spot.