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)