St. Vincent Memories

I keep finding intersections between where I grew up, and other places in my home state of Minnesota, including where I just moved to (I no...

Men's Barracks, Lower Fort Garry - Winter of 1857-1858 The Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment men's barracks as seen from the officer...

I recently posted about an amazing artist from my region named Don McMaster . I posted about Don because he had created a series of painting...

From: Democracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville The concept of the Great American Desert had long been familiar to Americans and indee...

Weather cool and pleasant; the mercury forty-eight degrees at sunrise. This morning we rode a few miles out of town, and met the dragoons a...

This is the first of several posts taken from first-person accounts of a mid-nineteenth century expedition expedition started out in late A...

Major Stephen H. Long of the United States Army was the most important government-sponsored explorer in the decade after the War of 1812. He...

Encampment on the Red River - Hind Expedition, 1857 Born in Ireland, H. L. Hime came to Canada in 1854 and joined the Hind Expedition as...

...Yet this [boundary] line which may be so simply described as "west on the 49th parallel" was not as easily marked on the ground...

Treaties and Preludes The boundary between Canada and the United States, where it sweeps westward along the 49th parallel of north latitude,...

In the 19th century, science was making great strides. Included in those gains of knowledge was the field of astonomy. St. Vincent and Pemb...