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by J. E. P. Muddock. The book overland detour, as Portage
was read by a prospector at la Prairie lies between Lake
the time he staked his claim Manitoba and the Assiniboine Did You Know?
here in 1915. Copper and gold River, which formed a popular
are still mined in Flin Flon, waterway for early trav elers. Flin Flon was once home
but visitors mostly come to Today, this thriving farming to Canada’s largest
experi ence the vast wilderness community contains the medical marijuana
of the nearby Grass River Fort La Reine Museum and grow-op, located in
Provincial Park. Pioneer Village, on the site an old mine.
The distinctive Grass River, of the original fort built here
dotted by strings of islands, in 1738. The museum offers
has been a trade route for exhibits detailing 19th-century
centuries, used by Abori ginal prairie life. The popular explorer La Vérendrye. It is a
peoples and, later, European railroad display features distribution and supply center
explorers and fur traders, to the cigar-stained car of Sir for the farms of the fertile
travel from northern forests to William Van Horne, founder Vermilion River valley. The
the prairies. Today, visitors may of the Cana dian Pacific town’s Fort Dauphin Museum
follow the historic route on Railroad. Pioneer Village is a replica of an 18th-century
guided canoe tours, or simply re-creates a 19th-century trading post, with exhibits
break for a spot of fishing. settlement with authentic including a trapper’s birch-
stores and a church. bark canoe and several early
pioneer buildings.
30 The onion-shaped dome
of Dauphin’s Church of the
Portage la Prairie 31 Res urrection is a tribute to the
Dauphin town’s Ukrainian immi grants,
£ @ n 97 Sas katchewan
Ave E; www.city-plap.com ~ £ @ n 100 Main St S; who began to arrive in 1891.
www.tourismdauphin.ca
Portage la Prairie lies at the Fort Dauphin Museum
center of a rich agricultural Tree-lined Dauphin was named "' ⌂ 140 Jackson St
area. The town is named after the King of France’s § (204) 638 6630 # May–
after the French term for an eldest son by the French Sep: daily; Oct–Apr: by appt

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