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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon House No. 3 Cairn (RM of Cornwallis)The third (or, by some sources, the fourth) facility to be known as Brandon House, a fur-trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, was established at this site in October 1828 by Chief Trader Francis Heron. It was abandoned in 1832. In the early 20th century, physician David Alexander Stewart determined the approximate location of Brandon House from HBC records and, along with fellow physicians Sidney James Shepherd Peirce and Charles Arthur Baragar, he confirmed it. Baragar, a President of the Brandon Rotary Club, enlisted club members to erect a permanent marker at the site. A fieldstone cairn was dedicated at a well-attended ceremony on 7 October 1928, for the 100th anniversary of the post’s founding.
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Sources:Obituary [Charles Arthur Baragar], American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 93, No. 3, 1936. This page was prepared by Ken Storie and Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 30 October 2021
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