Talk:Dollard, Saskatchewan

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-- The following was posted on August 25th. It was immediately reverted. If this is true then it should be added. Can anyone confirm this?

"No. This is false. Dollard was named after the French soldier, Sieur de Dollard des Ormeaux, who perished with his men, inside their fort when they were trying to repel a Huron invasion. He lit a keg of gun power and catapulted it at the enemy warriors. Unfortunately, the bomb snagged in a tree branch and fell back into the fort killing him and some of his men. The CPR chose this name for the new Saskatchewan hamlet in 1912. Marcel Coderre 25-8-06" MindScream 22:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Additional corrections, background info
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 * Rose des prairies (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2008 (UTC)The very first site of the Dollard post office was on the homestead quarter of Phillippe Buffet's on the north west side of a butte on NE 6-8-19 West of the Third Meridian. Buffet became postmaster Sept. 15, 1909. On April 1, 1912, the post office was taken over by T. St. Hilaire and located in his store on his farm NE 26-7-20 W 3rd Meridian, where a R.C. church, school, lumberyard, and store formed the beginnings of a new parish pioneers had called "Val Roy." However, the post office had remained as "Dollard."    .  


 * The Canadian Pacific Railway line between Weyburn and Lethbridge was graded in 1913, and a new village was surveyed by the C,P.R. bypassing a few kilometers north of location of the first site. Dollard was established as a village July 2, 1914, and the post office relocated to the new site.


 * The origin of the name "Dollard' is correctly described by M. Coderre, except that the group encountered the Iroquois, not the Hurons who were their allies. (The dates shown in "Origin" are all in error. Please correct. Dollard was named to honour Dollard des Ormeaux. The word "either" does not fit here.) 


 * (by Thérèse Lefebvre Prince, author of the 1989 Dollard history book: LISTEN! THE WIND IS RISING! ECOUTEZ! LE VENT SE LEVE!

Dl2000 (talk) 02:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)