QUOTES

"What a relief it was to be on the platform where the air felt so pure and refreshing. We were all physically exhausted and aching all over, but we were so happy at long last to be in Winnipeg."

Joseph Wilder, Read All About It, Peguis Publishers, 1978

"The ship . . . would ordinarily carry 700 passengers and there were over 2,500 of us on board. There were a lot of goods being brought over. Everybody had a lot of things . . . It was very crowded."

P.S. Horndern, Barr Colony, 1903, as quoted in Heather Robertson, Salt of the Earth

"The earth is everywhere rich and black. My own countrymen are starved for land. This empty realm could be their salvation."

Dr. Josef Oleskow, as quoted in Pierre Berton, The Promised Land: Settling the West, 1896-1914.

"We had been promised that there [in Canada] we could again live in freedom according to the word of the Lord and according to the teachings of the apostles."

Altester Johann Wiebe, Mennonitische Rundschau, 1926

"I am fully confident . . . that you will help us to realize a plan whose ultimate objective is to create a French and Catholic nation in the vast prairies of the Northwest."

Adéodat Thérien, 1897