The heart of the continent

the long version

This book "follows the area known as Assiniboia from the time it came into existence as part of the thousands of square miles deeded to Lord Selkirk in the early 1800's, through the formation of a formal municipality of Assiniboia covering 120 square miles in 1880 up to the present day municipality of 27 square miles."--Dust jacket. . The original Assiniboia area included a large part of what is now Manitoba as well as parts of Saskatchewan, North Dakota and Minnesota.