RM of St. Franois Xavier embracing Mtis history to mark 200th anniversary [Video]

A monumental milestone will be marked in Manitoba this weekend.

The RM of St. François Xavier is marking its 200th year – a celebration that will feature the successes of modern day, but also remember the history of the area that started with the Métis.

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“I think we’re in a time and place now where we need to share these roots. Without sharing these roots, and without having these roots, we have no fibre to hold us together,” said Delmer Nott, the reeve of the RM.

“We want to embrace what has went on (here), where we started, where the RM started.”

Nott said the RM was originally known as Grantown, named after its founder Cuthbert Grant.

The Métis leader helped around 2,000 people settle the land around 1824 along the Assiniboine River.

“There’s history …