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...Manitoba Hard." Manitobans pricked up their ears. Ever since Lord Selkirk and his band of British crofters had sailed across Hudson Bay in 1814 and then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...
...Manitoba had long known there was a solution: diversification of the province's industries. In 1912 provincial boundaries were redrawn and Manitoba, which had been known as the "Postage Stamp Province," unrolled 500 miles northward to Hudson Bay. Adventurers and prospectors had already discovered copper and gold, trapped beaver, muskrat and wild mink...
...chances for wealth in the cold, barren, undeveloped north were good. But even so, only 2% of Manitoba's population (under 750,000) last year lived in the northern two-thirds of the province...
...Spendthrift. What Premier Garson, one of the few non-farmers to head the farmer government of Manitoba, wanted to do now was to exploit the northland, add a few amenities to farm life. He proposed to spend...
...farm roads and roads to open up new mining areas, open Manitoba's forest reserves to tourists...