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port, where more than two men could not enter abreast. 

 Passing down this side of the Fort was the King's highway, 

 which led off in a northerly direction and was continued to 

 Lower Fort Garry, or the " Stone Fort," and thence to the 

 Peguis Reserve and the two Sugar Points. No building what- 

 ever was built upon this road ; the houses of William Drever- 

 the two of Andrew McDermott's, A. G. B. Bannatj^ne's, that 

 of the Ross', Logan's, Bouvette, Brown and Inkster, being, 

 where the land admitted of it, on the banks of the river some 

 distance to the east. 



I have said that the Cathedral of St. Boniface then 

 possessed two towers, which have been made familiar to the 

 whole of this continent by the beautiful description of the 

 poet Whittier in the " Red River Voyageur." The Cathedral 

 Church of St. John also possessed its tower, (a square and 

 very massive one), and my first Sunday in the settlement 

 found me one of its occupants during the morning service ; and 

 I noticed on the bordered wainscoting which extended up some 

 height above the pews the plain evidence, on its paint work, 

 of the extreme height, and of the gradually decreasing of tlve 

 waters of the flood of 1852. From near its gate could be seen 

 the residence of the Right Reverend Dr. Anderson, then 

 Bishop of Rupert's Land ; a building very little changed, 

 except outwardly, built solidly of logs, and now the residence 

 of His Grace the Primate of all Canada ; and between the 

 Church and this house stood the then closed College of St. 

 John. 



During my summer's stay I had visited the Peguis 

 Reserve, the King's Highway which led to the Sugar Points 

 of Mapleton, its southern border, crossing then as now the 

 Image Plain; had seen the Kildonan Church, the Middle 

 Church and that of St. Andrew's, and visited the Stone Fort; 

 had seen St. James and Headingley Churches, crossed the 

 White Horse Plains, where I saw its fine church; traversed 

 " Le Grand Marais " to Poplar Point with its church, High 

 Bluff and its place of worship, and that of the Portage, all 



