Rat River Settlement

Rat River Settlement is an informal area within the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry in the province of Manitoba, Canada located east and south of the community of Otterburne, north and south of the village of St-Pierre-Jolys and northeast and southeast of the CP Emerson subdivision's former Carey rail siding.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Bibliography

Parks Canada (2008). "Manitoba History: Commemorating the First Railway in Western Canada". Manitoba Historical Society.
Jolys, Father Jean-Marie (Saint-Pierre parish pastor) (1914). Pages de souvenirs et d'histoire - La paroisse de Saint-Pierre-Jolys au Manitoba. pp. 49–52.
Ledohowski (pdf 3), E.M. (2003). "The Heritage Landscape of the Crow Wing Study Region of Southeastern Manitoba - Settlement Groups" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
mapcarta.com (online). "Rat River Settlement". Retrieved July 8, 2017.
stpierrejolys.com (online). "The Story Behind St-Pierre-Jolys' Name". Retrieved July 8, 2017.

^ Parks Canada 2008
^ Jolys 1914, Father Jolys describes how river lots bordering three sections of the Rat River between the future communities of Otterburhe and St. Malo in Manitoba were staked, by Father Ritchot and some 30-odd Métis men from St. Norbert, Manitoba, in the next few days starting on July 3, 1870. The two most northerly of these Rat River river-lot sections were eventually surveyed as the Rat River Settlement. The third river-lot section was surveyed in 1884 as the St. Malo Settlement.
^ Ledohowski (pdf 3) 2003, §5.3.15, Rat River Settlement: "Detail from a 1921 Sectional Map showing landscape features and survey patterns around the Rat River Settlement. Note that within the settlement the old route of the Crow Wing Trail still serves as the main transportation artery and that PTH #59 has not yet been constructed. Note also the trail crossroads, which gave rise to the community and street plan in St. Pierre."
^ mapcarta.com (online)
^ stpierrejolys.com (online), "The post office opened in 1879 and was briefly called Rat River. Its name changed to Joly [Jolys?] in 1883, . . ."

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