A Year in Manitoba, Being the Experience of a Retired Officer in Settling ...
A Year in Manitoba, Being the Experience of a Retired Officer in Settling ...
A Retired Officer
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Every effort was made in Winnipeg to do honour to the occa- sion in the manner usual at home. All shops were more or less replete with articles suitable for presents, and it was stated in a local paper that such a business had never before been done in the towa The grocers' shops, and the meat and poultry market — especially the latter — were particularly well supplied. Every description of bird and beast, and of many, if not all, kinds of fish suitable for food, was here well represented. Pear...s (excellent meat), deer, as well as the accustomed beef, Digitized byLjOOQlC 66 A YEAR IN MANITOBA. mutton, and pork, were in good supply ; while turkeys, geese, fowls, and game were simply without limit; much of which comes up from the States. Their frozen condition, of course, much detracts from their appearance, but we all agreed we had never eaten a better turkey and sausages than we bought in the market for a dollar (4s.); the bird being about ten pounds in weight, very meaty and tender, and it was amply supplemented by the time-honoured additions of the richest of plum-puddings and the conventional mince-pies.
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