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Narrative of a journey to Manitoba: Together with an abstract of the Dominion Lands Act, and an extract from the government pamphlet on Manitoba

Shantz, Jacob Yost: 1822-1909. Resident of New Berlin, Ontario; sent to Manitoba by Mennonites in Russia to report on lands, 1872; favourable report led to the founding of the first Mennonite settlements in the West; interested himself in the welfare of these immigrants, and made a total of thirty trips to Manitoba, usually on business connected with the settlers. // Shantz was sent out to inspect land for the Russian Mennonites who subsequently settled in southern Manitoba. Also published in Peel 766. For French version, see Peel 650.

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