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Manitoba and the great North-West: The field for investment, the home of the emigrant: Being a full and complete history of the country by John Macoun: To which has been added the educational & religious history of Manitoba & the North-West

Macoun, John: 1832-1920. Botanist; member of Fleming's exploration party to the Pacific, 1872; carried on botanical survey work for the Dominion government, 1870s and 1880s; appointed assistant director and naturalist of Geological Survey of Canada, 1885; his views on agricultural productivity of area within "Palliser's Triangle" said to have influenced government policy (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Begg, Alexander merchant: 1839-1897. From Quebec City to Red River, 1867; first merchant to bring in goods of Canadian manufacture; connected with two ephemeral Winnipeg newspapers, Manitoba Trade Review , 1871 and Daily Herald , 1877; deputy treasurer of Manitoba, 1878-1884; immigration agent for CPR for some years; died in Victoria (Wolfenden, "Begg vs. Begg" in British Columbia Historical Quarterly , 1937; Begg, Ten years in Winnipeg ). // Grant, George Monro: 1835-1902. Born in Nova Scotia; ordained minister in Church of Scotland, 1860; secretary to Sandford Fleming, 1872; minister in Halifax, 1863-1877; principal of Queen's University, 1877-1902 (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // McCarthy, Joseph: 1839-1914. Secretary to Archbishop Taché. // Also p

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