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How did Rose and Jake Stark end up together

After taking over the farm on 1937 from the Bischke’s, Rose Noel met Alex Maron (he was a neighbour’s son) and married him on the same year.
When Rose and Alex were married, life was no different than before. The land was farmed, cows milked, cream separated, and the garden tended. They had two children: Eunice [...]

First Europeans Wintering on Manitoba Soil

On August 27 he put into an estuary of a great river flowing from the Southwest to rest and refit, and consider his future course.  Before he was ready to sail, the sudden closing in of cold weather made it necessary to prepare to winter on that forbidding shore.  Dikes against the ice were built [...]