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Updated: June 25, 2025

Upon inquiring for the post-office, I was referred to the Postmaster himself, who, in his-capacity of leading citizen, was standing by. Asking if there were any letters lying at his office for me, I was answered in a very curt negative, the postmaster retiring immediately up the steep bank towards the collection of huts which calls itself Pembina.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America