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| | Amber Valley, a Black Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | On March 21, 1911, a party of two hundred Blacks arrived at a Manitoba border station and requested admission to press on to Amber Valley, to which relatives had preceded them. |
 | | By 1920, the average holding at Amber Valley consisted of thirty-eight acres (virtually all crops), three horses, two cattle, and houses and fence, totalling a value at $400, which although was low, was deemed sufficient by the local authorities. |
 | | Just east of Amber Valley, their farms neighboured those settled by Ukrainian and Polish homesteaders. |
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