After the Municipality of
Argyle was formed in 1882 the representatives
on the Council Board of Old Argyle were S. Christopherson, C. Johnson,
Skafti Arason, Fribjorn Fredrickson and Ami Sveinson.
When the Municipality was changed the successive councillors for
Ward 6 were:
Joseph Cobb
Olgeir Fredrickson
Peter
Goodman
W. C. Christopherson
For Wards 5:
Bjorn Anderson
Thomas Yoe
Albert Oliver
G. Nordman Jr.
H. Stefanson
Wm. Gudnason
G. Sveinson
In the year of the Red River Rebellion in 1885 the pioneers kept their
old shotguns loaded and their battleaxes sharpened in the houses ready
for emergencies. There was a young lad started off in March walking,
expecting to go with a battalion from Winnipeg. After walking about 15
miles a terrific blizzard started, which lasted for three days and the
boy was forced to return, disappointed. It was a great relief when the
battle was over.
This same year there was great activity in the settlement. The railway
was built west as far as Holland so it was quite convenient in
comparison to get supplies, new machinery was bought and a lot of land
brought under cultivation. Those with binders cut neighbors crops.
Allan Card with his horse-power threshing machine did custom work. In
1886 the railroad was built on the south side of the Tiger Hills from
Morris to Brandon. Business flourished. People bought more
machinery, traded oxen for horses, broke and bought more land, raised
more stock and even an Icelandic ponies and sheep appear o the scene,
believed to have belonged to Sig. Christopherson.
Progress continued until the outbreak of The Great War.
These pioneers experienced all the hardships and difficulties common to
the absence of railway and market facilities. In no ways daunted by
energy, industry and indominable will to surmount, all obstacles, they
have achieved an unparalleled success, a success that is an instance of
what can be accomplished in the Great West
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