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Arrival of the Mounted Police

 

 

TRANSCRIPT

Sam Steele talking about the Construction of the Fort.

'We made our own shingles, raised the walls, put on the roof, a new experience to many; but a few of us had been bred in the rural districts in the east, where every boy in those days was supposed to have an axe in his hands within a few weeks of birth, and where, in the early days of our boyhood, retired army and navy officers might have been seen on the roof of their log barns, shingling them or hand-spiking at the log heaps to make home for their sons. So there were we teaching ex-graduates and Irish land agents' sons to place shingles.'

Narrated by Edwin Wityshyn

 

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