Timeline...
1600 - 1699
The
World
British Colonies are established along the east coast of North America.
These colonies would eventually become the “13 Colonies”
that would
break away from Britain to for the United States
Canada
What new know as Central Canada (Quebec and Ontario) is called New
France. The profits available through the Fur Trade would prompt
westward exploration.
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Manitoba
Henry Kelsey travels southwest from Hudson Bay – to the eastern
edge of the great plains
The French Explorer, La Verendrye, builds Fort La Reine on the
Assiniboine River (near present day Portage La Prairie).
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The R.M.
of Argyle
When
the first settlers arrived in Argyle it was obvious to them that they
were not the first inhabitants of this land. Native people often passed
through and evidence of past inhabitants was more visible in those
days, be it in the form of burial mounds or prairie trails. Stone
projectile points found in the Avery Mound (SW 14-3-13) near the
northeastern corner of Rock Lake, show that an early culture called The
Lake Shore Culture occupied the territory about 1500, BC. Although
settlement by the Sioux, Algonquin, Plains Cree and Assiniboine people
was intermittent as befitted their dependence on the roving herds of
bison, it was ongoing and substantial. Absence of any written
record is of course a challenge as we try to understand the times, but
thanks to archaeologists, like Argyle’s own Chris Vickers, we know the
region was then, as it is now, a home. With that knowledge comes the
understanding that the story of the first peoples is still unfolding,
and that it bears some similarities to the story of our ancestors. They
also migrated here, likely as not led by advanced scouting parties
(explorers?), and they adapted to the land and took from it what they
needed to survive and even prosper.
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