Dawson Road
The Dawson Road was a Canadian travel and trade route between Thunder Bay and Fort Garry (from 1873 Winnipeg ) in the 19th century . It led frequently alternating over water and land routes and formed the western part of the Dawson Trail , which connected Fort Garry with Toronto .
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The route was surveyed by Simon James Dawson for the Government of Canada in 1858, and construction of the overland routes began in 1868. In 1870, Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley led his troops over some of the as-yet-incomplete routes to crush the Red River Rebellion . After the founding of the province of Manitoba around Fort Garry as the capital in the same year, the area's economy developed rapidly and the route was widely used. The majority of goods transports in particular continued to use the much longer route via Duluth on Lake Superior and the Red River, since Dawson Road, with over 30 changes between water and land, required a lot of time to reload cargo. After the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway , which in 1882 connected Thunder Bay with Winnipeg (formerly Fort Garry) three years before the entire route was completed, Dawson Road was hardly used and the roads fell into disrepair.
Web links
- Dawson Road ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
- SJ Dawson . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).