False Starts

Brandon in 1881 - Newspaper Clips

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7-April 1881, Winnipeg Times

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17-May 1881, Winnipeg Times

1879

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11-June, 1879 - Toronto Daily Mail

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2-Oct.,1879 - Montreal Gazette

1880

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16-April, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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7-May, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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17-May, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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9-May, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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9-June, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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18-August, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

Winter

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6-Jan, 1881 - Winnipeg Times

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6-Jan, 1881 - Winnipeg Times

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1-Feb 1881 - Winnipeg Times

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11-Feb. 1881 - Winnipeg Times

April

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5-April, 1881 - Toronto Daily Mail

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18-April, 1881 - Toronto Daily Mail

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27-July, 1880 - Winnipeg Daily Sun

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04-April, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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2-March, 1880 - Winnipeg Times

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28-Feb, 1880 - Winnipeg Daily Sun

May

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1-May, 1881 Winnipeg Times
(Complete article at bottom of this page.)

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1. McVicar, Mrs. Dougald, Reminiscenses of early Brandon (Unpublished Memoir, 1946)

2. Trotter, Beecham, A Horseman and The West (Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., 1925), 89

3. Secretan, James Henry Edward,Canada's great highway: From the first stake to the last spike (Ottawa: Thorburn & Abbott, 1924), 125-128; Berton. Pierre, The Last Spike (Toronto: McLelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto 1974), 25; Berton relates conflicting accounts by J.H.E. Secretan, a CPR surveyor and memoirs of Charles Aeneas Shaw, a “locating engineer”; Doerksen, A. D., The Brandon Wheat Kings - 1887 Vintage (Manitoba Pageant, Winter 1977, Volume 22, Number 1) favours the account of Trotter. The evidence indicates, at the very lweast, a lost oportunity for McVicar and the Grand Valley speculators.