Aura May took off like a teal at Le Pas, manitoba, five days after opening day.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
Columbia, Saskatchewan, and manitoba would, as states of the American Union, hold positions incomparably more important, grander, and more dignified than they can ever hope to reach either as independent communities or as provincial dependencies of a foreign power that regards them with a kindly tolerance somewhat akin to contemptuous indifference.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
From the eastern boundary on the Ottawa and St Lawrence Rivers to Kenora at the manitoba boundary, the distance is about 1000 miles.
"History of Farming in Ontario"
C. C. James