by Cynthia J Faryon,
The Dream....
Price: Cad$ 18.95
ISBN 978-0-9809269-0-3
ISBN 978-0-9809269-0-3
box 554 La Broquerie R0A0W0local 424-4075
Toll Free order number in Canada only: 1-866-757-6204
"...he certainly was an amazing man well ahead of his time, and southeast Manitoba is still benefitting ... you have done a wonderful job of capturing the spirit of a dream"
Cliff Graydon, MLA for Emerson
It's easy to capture the dream from a man like Watson Pogue Davidson. With stubborn determination he drained swamp land, built farmhouses and barns, brought in livestock and coerced settlers from all over the world to come to Marchand, Manitoba to share in his dream.
In pamphlets sent all over the world, "...He described Marchand as an area of low humidity... mild winters...pleasant summers, with no mention of sub-zero winters, scorching summers, or mosquitoes in epidemic proportions..."
Who was this man, this trailblazer? Was he simply a land developer hoping to make a quick buck off the sale of swamp land? Or was he more? Was he a dreamer, a visionary, a man determined to create a garden of Eden in the wilderness?
Cliff Graydon, MLA for Emerson
It's easy to capture the dream from a man like Watson Pogue Davidson. With stubborn determination he drained swamp land, built farmhouses and barns, brought in livestock and coerced settlers from all over the world to come to Marchand, Manitoba to share in his dream.
In pamphlets sent all over the world, "...He described Marchand as an area of low humidity... mild winters...pleasant summers, with no mention of sub-zero winters, scorching summers, or mosquitoes in epidemic proportions..."
Who was this man, this trailblazer? Was he simply a land developer hoping to make a quick buck off the sale of swamp land? Or was he more? Was he a dreamer, a visionary, a man determined to create a garden of Eden in the wilderness?
