Homesteaders exploring opportunities for settlement on the Canadian prairie west of Winnipeg, traveled along either the north or south branches of the Saskatchewan Trail. Prior to 1870 settlements in Manitoba were confined to river lots along the Red River and the Assiniboine River. Technological inventions and new agricultural practices in the decade from 1875 created […]
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Red River of the North. Created by Carl Musser, based on USGS and Digital Chart of the World. 2023*
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When professor Arthur S. Morton published his book History of Prairie Settlement in 1938, he titled his fifth chapter: “Settlement follows the Railways, 1891-1901.” The railway lines which were completed between 1891 and 1896 came to have a clear direction on the stream of settlers into new areas.[1] The Calgary-Edmonton line was one of these
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The Scandinavian emigration to the United States and Canada has countless examples of chain migration, however, it was seldom a joint action with full transplantation of communities. The forward scout was a common feature in many cases. Scouts often investigated new possibilities in another location on behalf of a larger group. Family and neighbors followed
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The Laurier government was elected in Canada in 1896. It soon put into action an aggressive immigration policy campaign. “Free homesteads were offered promiscuously throughout the world, with the object of inducing settlement on the plains in Western Canada.”[1] The Canadian government placed advertisements promoting the Canadian prairies in more than 7,000 newspapers and farmers’
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From the end of the American Civil War and until the economic bust in 1893, European immigrants chose to settle in the Midwest and the Northwestern parts of the United States. Even emigrants in Canada preferred the United States during those decades. At least 1.8 million Canadians moved south across the border into the United
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Brunstad-familien fra Romedal i Hedmark reiste sammen en større gruppe sambygdinger med dampskip fra New Orleans 3. juledag 1851. Da de kom fram til Alexandria, Louisiana, måtte de flytte over på et mindre dampskip på grunn av den lave vannstanden. Dette skipet brakte dem helt fram til Shreveport, hvor de var framme om formiddagen den
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De norske immigrantene til Texas mellom 1845 og borgerkrigen kom først og fremst fra noen kommuner i Agder og Hedmark. I Aust-Agder var det ifølge Odd Magnar Syversen 57 personer som emigrerte fra Holt sogn, 42 fra Åmli, 27 fra Tromøy, 25 fra Gjøvdal, 20 fra Tovdal, 19 fra Lillesand, og 18 fra Froland.[1] Det
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I 1837 begynte skipsreder Lauritz Christian Stephansen med linjefart med seilskip over Atlanteren til Amerika. Han etablerte en direkterute mellom Bordeaux og New Orleans. Skipene fraktet tekstiler, vin og andre luksusvarer til Amerika. På tilbaketuren var skipene som regel fullastet med bomull. Rederen visste at mange utvandrere fra Agder hadde reist til Le Havre og
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De første årene i Fox River-dalen viste de norske immigrantene liten interesse for å knytte til seg en ordinert prest. De nærte en dyp skepsis til den norske statskirken. Deres åndelige behov ble dekket av legpredikanter, særlig de som hadde en bakgrunn fra Hauge-bevegelsen i Norge, predikanter som Ole Olson Hetletvedt, Bjørn Hatlestad, Jørgen Pedersen,
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