Halifax: August 27, 1912 <<< >>> Victoria: October 17, 1912
Although the terrain was not too rugged in the Prairies, the 1912 Pathfinders
did not find it to be an easy time. The roads were poor and a day's rain
would turn them into "prairie gumbo" - a thick sticky kind of mud. One day,
approaching Winnipeg, it took 7 hours to drive 47 kilometers.
Often there were no roads at all, so the men had to make their way west across
the wide open plains by following telegraph poles. Along the way they often
met immigrant settlers who had built homes called "shanties" as they settled
down and began to work the land.
