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[John McGillivray]

Hello Karman,

I was thinking of answering you earlier, but my wife and daughter have just arrived back home from a trip overseas. I had other duties to attend to.

The cart in the photo may be a distant relative of the Red River Cart. Most of the ancestors of the French Canadians came from the Normandy region of France. When the French Canadian troops landed in Normandy, they were greeted like long lost relatives. They spoke the same type of French as the locales, and not the snooty French you find in Paris.

Here is a photo taken in Winnipeg in 1883.

John