“I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.”

“I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.”

“I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small because the right is the same for everyone.”