St. Vincent Memories

 John Boucher - Back row, on left (1855)  Provision was made in the ninth article of the treaty of October 2, 1863 (aka Old Crossing ...

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Church (Caribou, Kittson County, Minnesota) Let me introduce you to someone from my hometown area - eastern Kitt...

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...

The treaty marked the last permanent major territorial loss of Continental United States, the northern most tip of the territory of Louisian...

Click on the image above to see easier-to-read larger version... I have written of it before - the Treaty of Old Crossing . The paintin...

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...

The quote in the excerpt above is from the journal of a real-life, anonymous fur trader who worked in the Pembina/St. Vincent area, a littl...

I discovered an amazing song today written by a Canadian singer/songwriter by the name of Rodney Brown . In the same tradition as Gordon Li...

History will repeat itself this weekend. People will gather at Old Crossing and Treaty Park near Huot as they did 145 years ago, but the fat...

Outlined land, colored in yellow, ceded in 1863 Old Crossing Treaty I grew up with many of the descendants of the early Metis and indig...