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Excerpts from the diary of railway surveyor Thomas R.B. Smith
1879

Before track could be laid for the Canadian Pacific Railway, surveyors had to map the route and place markers on lands traditionally used by the First Nations. This railway surveyor met so many Cree that he made an English-Cree dictionary in order to communicate with them. His diary reveals harmonious relations between the surveyors and Indians, which was not always the case when surveying parties encroached on First Nations' land.

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