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From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 4

Reprinted from the September 1948 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 20, 2015

From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 4 C.D. LaNauze, Lacombe, Alta. The author writes of his father, T.S. LaNauze: ‘It was not long before Dad saw some of the action he was looking for. On December 9, 1880, he writes from “Fort Macleod via Fort Benton, Montana, U.S.A.” and says: “It is about […] Read more

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From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 3

Reprinted from the June 1948 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 13, 2015

From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 3 C.D. LaNauze, Lacombe, Alta. The author’s father writing in a letter to the North West Mounted Police: ‘Fort Walsh via Fort Assiniboia, Montana, U.S.A., July 16, 1880. Here we are at last at Headquarters having had just a month’s journey from Sarnia, Ontario. We had steamed […] Read more

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From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 2

Reprinted from the December 1947 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff April 6, 2015

From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 1 C.D. LaNauze, Lacombe, Alta. The author writes of his father, T.S. LaNauze: ‘I am sorry to say the country here is far from improving and is in a very lawless state. War is now declared between the “red” and the “whites” and the whole country is […] Read more

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From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 1

Reprinted from the December 1947 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 30, 2015

From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 1 C.D. LaNauze, Lacombe, Alta. The author writes of his father, T.S. LaNauze: ‘By January 1874 he is on a place of his own and writes from Estancia Riheros: “We got over the sheep to the Iedia Auga all right in three days and were fortunate in […] Read more

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Pioneer weapons of the Canadian Prairies

History pages reprinted from the December 1946 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 16, 2015

Pioneer Weapons By Gwain Hamilton, Regina Sask. ‘In a pioneer country weapons often make the man. This was as true in the Canadian northwest as it was in the roaring turbulent days of the gold rush in Montana and later when the great cattle kingdoms flourished on the Cheyenne and Oregon ranges. With the coming […] Read more

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Early cowpoke turns doctor

History pages reprinted from the March 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 9, 2015

Alberta Cowpoke Turns Doctor Guy Weadick, High River, Alta. ‘In the old open range days it used to be said that the dream of many a cowpuncher was to become a wagon boss and when his range days were over to graduate to a steady job as a bartender. Be that as it may, there was one […] Read more

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Broncho busters and their saddles of 50 years ago

History pages reprinted from the March 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff March 2, 2015

Bronco Busters and Their Saddles of Fifty Years Ago Bert Sheppard, Longview, Alta. ‘The day that I write about was that which preceded the coming of the automobile or “Stink Wagon” as it was often referred to. In Western Canada, East of the Rockies, it would be from about 1882 to 1907, from the time that […] Read more

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Early Traders

History pages reprinted from the March 1949 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 6, 2015

Early Traders W. Henry McKay, Brooks, Alta. ‘The first white people to see the “Red Deer Forks”, which are about four miles east of Empress, Alta., were most likely the Frenchmen under De Niverville who built a small Fort at the forks of the Elbow and the Bow rivers in or about 1733 which they […] Read more

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Robert Sinton, Pt. 1

History pages reprinted from the Sept. 1947 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff February 2, 2015

Robert Sinton Z.M. Hamilton, Regina, Sask. ‘There is no figure better known to the stockmen of the wide Saskatchewan Country, or, indeed, to all sorts and conditions of people in the Prairie Region, than that of Robert Sinton. He came to Manitoba in 1878, and to the North-West Territories in 1882, when the first foundations […] Read more

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Western Stock Growers’ Association addresses Prime Minister

History pages from the June. 1948 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

By Canadian Cattlemen Staff January 26, 2015

Western Stock Growers’ Association Addresses Itself Directly to Prime Minister Association President presents background and present conditions in Canada’s beef cattle industry and advocates removal of embargo on export of beef cattle to United States. ‘Dear Prime Minister (March 27, 1948), I have been instructed by the Board of Directors of this Association to write […] Read more

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From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 4

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From the Pampas to the Prairies, 1872-1885: Part 2

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Pioneer weapons of the Canadian Prairies

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Broncho busters and their saddles of 50 years ago

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Western Stock Growers’ Association addresses Prime Minister

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