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Porteous Brothers Sow Wheat as Neighbors Move North
Hector Porteous returns from visiting friends near Sivation Ontario while the district notes many move to homesteads. Porteous Brothers north of Birtle planted twenty acres of wheat on Monday the 6th, the season's first seeding. Volunteers, led by Capt. George Wood, attend church with Rev. Morton and prepare for a battalion in the district. more men are gathering at Arrow River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Wood
Alles
Norquay
Farmers’ Union
Cumming
Hector Porteous
Sivation
Ont
Wilcocks
Porteous Bros
Birtle
Fort Carlton
Beardy
Pentland
Morton
St. George's Church
S. Adams
Catia Elk
Beulah
Richard Hanna
Elizabeth Ann Irvine
Robert Pearson
Sarah Hanna
J. Rawson
Wood
Ontario
Colonel Wood
Snider Rifles
George Wood
Arrow River
North-West
Agen H. Martineau
Manitoba
L. W Herchimer
Lirtle
A. McDonald
J. A. Macrae
Carlton
J. M. Rae
Battleford
T. T. Quinn
Fort Pitt
W. Anderson
Edmonton
M. Begg
Blackfoot Crossing
Pockington
Fort MacLeod
North-West Territories
Regina
Canada
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