First Furrows

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "First Furrows" (A History of the Early Settlement of the Red River Country; including that of Portage la Prairie) by Rev. Alfred Campbell Garrioch. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

After the writer had decided on "First Furrows" as the title of this work, he dipped the pen, poised it over the unwritten page and awaited further inspiration. It came. The front door flew open and an excited young lady shouted in the words-"The War is over." The shouted intelligence, of course, referred to the "World War," commenced August 4th, 1914, and ended November 11th, 1918, and the announcement blended well with above title which is intended as a compliment to Archdeacon Cochrane, the founder of St. Mary's Church, with whom the plough-fitting emblem of the peaceful arts of husbandry-was an effective civilizing agency, so that the first furrow in many an earthly field led up to the first furrows in the sphere of spiritual living, resulting in the temporal and spiritual betterment of the people among whom he laboured. His life's work will ever be remembered as having been a great blessing to the people of this country.