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son was on account of the opportunities it presented as a stock country
from reading about the great herds of buffalo that roamed the prairies of
Saskatchewan.

   My father and brother, James and myself left Ontario about the middle
of April, 1883, with a party of about twenty people, who were bound for
Winnipeg, Regina and Moose Jaw. We came by way of Detroit, Chicago,
Minneapolis and St. Paul, taking about twelve days on the journey, and we
were held up in parts of Minnesota and Manitoba by floods.

   On landing in Winnipeg we found there were no paved streets, or any-
thing of that kind-nothing but mud. One of our party had an idea of
stopping in Winnipeg, but after spending two days in tramping around
through the mud he decided he wanted to get out of there as soon as
possible.

   We came to Regina and thought of settling near that city because it


   
was the capital. We stopped there two or three days, but were very much
dissatisfied, as it was very bad weather.

   About the first of May we met some friends, Foley Brothers, who were
the greatest railroad builders of that time. We then proceeded by train to
Moose Jaw, which was at that time the end of the C.P.R. track.

   Through the kindness of one of the Foley brothers, we were allowed
to use one of their camps in Moose Jaw for a time. I worked for Foley for
a while.

   At that time my father met Mr. G. W. Grant and Frank Clark, who
with others blazed the trail from Moose Jaw to the Elbow.

  My father and brother, shortly after we arrived, made a trip through
the country, which lasted about a month. Owing to the terms of agreement
of the Temperance Colonization Society, we did not wish to locate within
their territory. Their system of paying for the land by instalments when
carried out meant that the settler would ultimately pay full price for the
land, when homesteads could be had free. We made a selection of a home-
stead some forty miles south of Saskatoon, what was then known as
         
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