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| Metis Rider; note the beaded saddle blanket... |
...The following month, the annual horse race known as the
Dufferin races, was held in Emerson. Participants included the Irish Catholic proprietor of a livery stable in Emerson,
J.F. Tennant, and two local Metis horsemen, Joseph Godon of Deux Petites Pointes, in Montcalm, and
Roger Gosselin of
St. Vincent, Minnesota. At such events social boundaries were more fluid.
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The Limits of Rural Capitalism by Kenneth Michael Sylvester