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Gabriel's Crossing
GPS:	52d 40.28m N	106d 06.76m W	1830 feet
Location:	Junction of highway #312 and the South Saskatchewan River.
Gabriel Dumont operated a ferry on the South Saskatchewan River near this site from early 1870's to 1883. According to his 1878 license, the ferry was a scow measuring 7.6 meters (23 feet) by 4 meters (12 feet). Ferry service continued near Gabriel's crossing until completion of Gabriel's Bridge on highway #312 in 1969.
Raised on the prairies, Gabriel Dumont became the greatest of the Metis buffalo hunters. As the herds diminished in the 1870s, he and other plains-dwelling Metis established permanent settlements on the South Saskatchewan. In 1884, he brought Louis Riel from exile to lead the Metis in their dealings with the government, and when armed conflict ensued, Gabriel was their military commander. Forced into exile, he toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and pled the cause of his people in eastern Canada before returning to Saskatchewan in the 1890's to resume his place as a leader of the Metis community.