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WESTWARD HO THE WAGONS;
On the Trail of the Northwest Mounted Police |
| Canadian families in 80 wagons and with hundreds of horses, relive the original trek west of the Mounted Police in 1873 by following the same route across hundreds of miles of prairie in southern Saskatchewan and Alberta.
(DVD Cover, left) |
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| Two who went, were 11 year old Devin Boulton (above right), who walked the entire 200 mile route, and Lois Van Houten (above left), who at 85, decided to ride instead. |
Below wearing uniforms from the period, some reenactors show what it looked like when the NWMP passed this way over a hundred years before. |
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| (Above) Up at the crack of dawn for a wash in ice cold water, then for a jostling ride inside a wagon. Catherine Gryba, envies the riders who had it "smooth" on saddles. |
Elmo, (below,right) was one of a few mules that made the trek, some being ridden, others drawing wagons or buckboards. |
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