DCHP-3

Manitoba fever

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in the early 1880's, the excitement in eastern Canada which led to extensive migrations to the newly opened-up province of Manitoba.

Quotations

1883
The infernal row you are all making up there about grievances[,] monopolies, squatter's rights, etc. has, together with your last spring's floods and Winnipeg speculations, cooled off the Manitoba fever prevalent in Ontario last year.
1883
George, like many of his young compatriots, is smitten with the Manitoban fever, and is off to the land of the setting sun. . . .
1963
In the rural districts of the old province [Ontario] . . . the "Manitoba fever" was burning and settlement "parties" were being organized....