Kanawayihtamaahk li taan paassii = Preserving our past : Ste. Madeleine, Manitoba
"Over 250 Metis people had homesteaded the land at Ste. Madeleine since the 1870s. It was a traditional Metis community nestled between the Assiniboine River and the Saskatchewan border in central-western Manitoba. They set up their own Mission log chapel church in 1913. In 1922 the one-room Belliveau School was built. In 1935, during the depression the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act was passed and the Metis land at Ste. Madeleine was designated...
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