Red River of the North, Manitoba, Winnipeg, and the Scandinavians
Red River of the North. Created by Carl Musser, based on USGS and Digital Chart of the World. 2023*
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Canada
Scandinavian settlements in Central Alberta
When professor Arthur S. Morton published his book History of Prairie Settlement in 1938, he titled his fifth chapter: “Settlement follows the Railways, 1891-1901.” The railway lines which were completed between 1891 and 1896 came to have a clear direction on the stream of settlers into new areas.[1] The Calgary-Edmonton line was one of these
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Some patterns of Norwegian immigration to America and Canada
From the end of the American Civil War and until the economic bust in 1893, European immigrants chose to settle in the Midwest and the Northwestern parts of the United States. Even emigrants in Canada preferred the United States during those decades. At least 1.8 million Canadians moved south across the border into the United
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