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Featured Articles and Excerpts
Ordinary Heroes - The Journal of a French Pioneer in Alberta by Marcel Durieux
Many French settlers had heard second-hand, from colonizing priests or family members who had immigrated, about the vastness of the Canadian prairies...Read More
Pioneering in Alberta - Maurice Destrube’s Story by Maurice Destrube
Destrube was a settler of both English and French origins who, reflecting back on his early years in Alberta, describes a brief encounter with a group of new French-Canadian settlers and the colonizing agent who had encouraged them to settle in the Canadian prairies...Read More
Bonjour Québec. . . Alberta calling : Making Québec connection not as easy as it seemed. by Rick McConnell
The first call got off to rather a poor start, I thought.
“We’re sorry, the number you have reached is not in service.” ...Read More
Larger than Life : A Portrait of the Voyageurs by Robert Michael Ballantyne
And this wildness of disposition was not a little fostered by the nature of their usual occupations. . .Read More
For more on the towns of St. Vincent and St. Paul, visit Peel’s Prairie Provinces.