"Red River trails": mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/40…
Flandrau, Grace 1925 - "Compliments of the Great Northern Railway."- Manitoba Historical Pamphlet Collection - Red River Trails - they were the free people of Canada, the Metis or Bois Brules, a race born of the fur trade and in whose veins the blood of French, Orkney Islanders 
and English mingled with that of every Indian race from lower St Lawrence to the Arctic sea and from the Sault de Sainte Marie to the eastern slopes of the Rockies.
Red River Trails 1925 - Flandrau, Grace - The vehicle was a Red River Cart-patterned somewhat after the ancient peasant carts of Normandy - it testifies to the French descent of its inventors.
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