Short History of the Presbyterian Church in the Dominion of Canada, From the Earliest to the Present Time
Short History of the Presbyterian Church in the Dominion of Canada, From the Earliest to the Present Time
Gregg, William, 1817-1909
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James Sutherland, who was authorised to marry and baptise, but who was forced to leave the settlement in 1818. In subsequent years the Red River settlers did not cease to be subjected to severe trials and privations. In 1818 and 1819 their crops were destroyed by grasshoppers. In 1826 the settlers suffered from cold, famine and a desolating flood. The cold in winter was sometimes 45^ below zero, and the ice on Digitized byLjOogle I40 WESTERN PROVINCES. the river upwards of five feet thick. On t...he approach of spring the river overflowed its banks and the surrounding country appeared like a vast lake, and it is said that "While the frightened inhabitants were collected in groups on any dry spot that remained visible above the waste of waters, their houses, barns, carriages, furniture, fencing and every description of property might be seen floating along over the wide-extended plain to be engulfed in Lake Winnipeg. Hardly a house or building of any kind was left standing in the colony. Many of the buildings drifted along whole and entire, and in some were ' seen dogs howling dismally, and cats that jumped frantically from side to side of their precarious abodes.
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