There was yet no division of parties, and a sufficient cabinet was chosen by the Governor.

Thus, institutions after the model of the mother of Parliaments at Westminster were evolved and Manitoba--the successor of our Red River Settlement--had conceded to it the right of local self-government.
In the year of the first parliament of Manitoba it was the fortune of the writer to take up his abode here.

Winnipeg, a village of less than three hundred inhabitants was in that year, still four hundred miles distant from a railway.

From the railway terminus in Minnesota, the stage coach drawn by four horses with relays every twenty miles, sped rapidly over prairies, smooth as a lawn to the site of the future city of the plains.
Since that time well-nigh forty years has passed away.

The stage coach, the Red River cart, and the shaganappi pony are things of the past, and several railways with richly furnished trains connect St.Paul and Minneapolis with the City of Winnipeg.