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Excerpt from Ten Years in Winnipeg: A Narration of the Principal Events in the History of the City of Winnipeg From the Year A. D. 1870 to the Year A. D. 1879, Inclusive Without committing ourselves to anything so very unnecessary as a preface - the title of the book being largely explanatory in itself - we feel irresistibly impelled to explain that "Ten Years in Winnipeg" is submitted, not as literary effort, but as a rough unvarnished statement of historical events, relative to a certain city in the plains, which city, by her marvellous spirit of progressiveness, in one short decade, has manifestly established the fact, that her present prosperity is abundant, and that her future greatness is inevitable. The scant time at our disposal in the collation of the items that form this book, must stand the excuse - if excuse were needed - for the crude style of its composition. We rest its claim to recognition, solely upon the harmless ground, of its simple and complete reliability. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.