The new farm settlers who spread throughout Manitoba from 1870 to
1920 are active participants in the movement to conquer the land,
turning the young province into an exporter of agricultural goods.
These pioneers experience the crucial, adventurous, and arduous
task of setting up a family farm in a new region. They also experience
the first transformations of farm work that is resolutely subjected
to market and productivity forces. A certain social and economic
differentiation also arises between farmers of modest means, living
more of a pre-industrial existence, and better-off or specialized
farmers, and local businessmen and politicians who are focused on
the rush toward progress and modernization.
Although many descendants of these pioneer families are geographically
mobile, leaving one parish for another, Manitoba for another province,
or the country for the city, other families demonstrate an extraordinary
continuity from generation to generation. Such is the case of the
Barnabé family who, in 1988, celebrated the centennial of their
settling on a river lot at Letellier.
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