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Chapter 7: Ninety Miles in an Ox Wagon

…while those who know this country evidently thought we were in blissful ignorance of what lay before us, others complimented my husband on having courageous ladies as his companions...

The 90-mile journey by ox and cart from Portage la Prairie to Minnedosa is a difficult one and took as long as their trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Rain, mud, sloughs and stubborn oxen slow them down considerably. Still, Emma finds pleasure in the spring-time beauty of the Manitoba prairie.

Chapter 7 of Emma Averill's journal
A of M, Emma Averill fonds, P267 | Read original | Read transcript
Photograph of an ox-cart
Settlers loaded all of their worldly possessions onto ox carts for the long, slow treck to their homesteads.
A of M, Transportation-Oxen 5, N678

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