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Approach to Fort Ellice,
Manitoba
1881, by Sydney Prior Hall
"Next morning, ... I looked upon a landscape which
I shall never forget," reported Dr. Macgregor in
Edinburgh's The Scotsman. "I am not sure
that my eyes have ever looked on a fairer land than
that which [is] spread before me." Macgregor's
comment, written as he approached Fort Ellice, unwittingly
demonstrates his understanding of the role that he was
expected to play on the Governor General's tour - promoter
of the western landscape to prospective immigrants from
Britain.
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