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HOW THE WEST WAS WON & Rivers Rails Globe Travel SECTION T - THE GLOBE AND MAIL - CANADA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER - GLOBEANDMAIL.COM - SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2005

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Page 1: SECTION T Globe Travel Rivers Rails 1 · getting a spring tan. Our group Of six pushes Off for a two-day, 42-kilometre. paddle north along the South Saskatchewan Riv- to Batoche,

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HOW THE WEST WAS WON

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SECTION T - THE GLOBE AND MAIL - CANADA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER - GLOBEANDMAIL.COM - SATURDAY, MAY 28, 2005

Page 2: SECTION T Globe Travel Rivers Rails 1 · getting a spring tan. Our group Of six pushes Off for a two-day, 42-kilometre. paddle north along the South Saskatchewan Riv- to Batoche,

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Rivers

Page 3: SECTION T Globe Travel Rivers Rails 1 · getting a spring tan. Our group Of six pushes Off for a two-day, 42-kilometre. paddle north along the South Saskatchewan Riv- to Batoche,

3The South Saskatchewan carries paddlers past an old abandoned church overlooking the former town site of Fish Creek and a battlefield where a monument memorializes the militiamen killed in the 1885 Métis Uprising. Photo credit: Henry Eng

An American White Pelican leads canoeists downstream towards Batoche. Photo credit: Henry Eng

Page 4: SECTION T Globe Travel Rivers Rails 1 · getting a spring tan. Our group Of six pushes Off for a two-day, 42-kilometre. paddle north along the South Saskatchewan Riv- to Batoche,

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Goodbye to urban angst

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& bannockGoodbye to urban angst & bannock

Dinner is fresh fi sh

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