Hi Victoria, Thanks for the reply. That should have been Makinak, not Makinaw. This is the message that I sent: "I am looking for the date that the railway first came to Makinak, Manitoba. My Mother-in-law was supposed to have travelled to her new home in Melfort, Sask. on the first train travelling west from Makinak. I would like to know what date that would have been. Can anyone help?" I don't know haow it got changed to what came with your reply. She was supposed to have left Makinak in 1905. The railway didn't get to Melfort until 1909. So she must have have gone to the nearest rail point at that time. Don > From: "Victoria" <victoria@pangea.ca> > Reply-To: CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 01:53:19 -0500 > To: CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CAN-Manitoba] CN Railway in Makinak > Resent-From: CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:57:15 -0700 > > Hi Don, > Where was your Mother-in-law travelling from? > The Lake Manitoba Railway reached Dauphin in 1896, but I can't seem to find > when it reached Mel. The first grain elevator was opened in 1904, so I > would imagine it was sometime around then. > Hopefully, some one more knowledgeable will contact you! Hope you find this > helpful! > Victoria > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Mason" <don.mason@home.com> > To: <CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 11:30 PM > Subject: [CAN-Manitoba] CAN Railway in Mackinaw > > > | I am looking for the date that the railway first came to Mackinaw, > Manitoba. > | My Mother-in-law was supposed to have travelled to her new home in > Mel, > | Sask. on the first train travelling west from Mackinaw. I would like to > know > | what date that would have been. Can anyone help? > | > | Thanks, > | Don Mason > | > | > | ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== > | Manitoba Gene Project > | http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/ > | > | ============================== > | Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > | your heritage! > | http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > | > | > > > > ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== > Free Webspace at RootsWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/press/FPhistory.html > Create your Genealogy Website! > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >