MHM Assiniboia Boundary - Lac du Bonnet MB
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PeterNoG
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This Manitoba Historical Marker and 2 others are in a small roadside park on Hwy 313 on the east side of the Winnipeg River near Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba.
Waymark Code: WMFD53
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 10/01/2012
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The cairn was erected by The Lac du Bonnet Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee on October 31, 2000.
Marker Name: Assiniboia Boundary - 1811
Agency: The Lac du Bonnet Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee
Languages: English
Location:
Hwy 313 at the Winnipeg River
Lac du Bonnet
Marker Text:
Assiniboia Boundary - 1811
Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk, had gained a controlling interest in the Hudson’s Bay Company by 1811. He proposed a series of emigration schemes designed to assist the dispossessed Scottish crofters who had lost their lands through the “Highland Clearances” of the late eighteenth century. The London Committee of the HBC agreed to grant him a 116,000 square mile tract of land in the vicinity of the Red and Assiniboine rivers (now Winnipeg) for an agricultural settlement. The eastern boundary of this land grant followed the Winnipeg River from Lake of the Woods to Lake Winnipeg.
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca or mhs.mb.ca: [Web Link]
Website: Not listed
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