On a warm July day in 1874, 275 men, 310 horses, 143 oxen and 187 carts and wagons left Fort Dufferin, Manitoba. Each man was dressed in a bright red uniform with polished boots. Optimism was high, as the two-kilometre-long line marched towards the...
Support Canadian History Ehx with a donation at As Canada marched through the first part of its second decade, the country began to expand and face several challenges unlike anything it had seen before. Let’s begin our look at Canada in 1873. On Jan...