Getting Ready for a Pull between WInnipeg and Souris.
Archives of Manitoba, Transportation, Roads and Highways, 6.
Early automobile transportation was unreliable and difficult because road infrastructures were inadequate.
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Road Construction in Town. The Building Beside the Grader is a Cook Caboose, 1926
Saskatchewan Archives Board, Regina, R-A6878
Prior to the 1930s, most serious road building occurred in the towns, where the elevators were located.
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Road Building with Horses and Equipment, 1919
Saskatchewan Archives Board
Road building, like railway building, was labour intensive, expensive work involving crews of men and horses digging ditches, moving earth and filling swamp lands.
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