McLaughlin and McTavish
McGillvray and McLeod
Street names in the east end of town
There's a plaque by the railroad tracks
Where the river starts to bend
Beside the street called McNaughton
By the ghost of men
How they crossed the mighty nations
In birch bark canoes
But now there's trains
And streets with their names
All that remains
John McLaughlin lived here
With his wife Marguerite
The hidden wives in the pallisade
Louisa McKenzie, Nancy McKay
Susan McGillvray, and Charlotte Small
Unknown women of the fur trade
Did your children play
I strain to hear your laughter
Amidst the shunting of trains
All that remains
Angus Bethune there's a street named for you
Your great-grandson Norman
May not have known
That you once left here
On a journey to China
Through Thompson's Passage
The first to go
Bethune, Cameron, and Ogden
Line the tracks in a row
And now there's trains
And streets with their names
All that remains
Fifty partners passed through here
And the Voyageur brigades
Through the nations of Cree and Ojibwe
No names of the chiefs you'll find
On the plaques or the signs
Your native brothers who fed you
And showed you the way
But their spirits live on here
In the rivers and bays
Through the lakers and freight trains
And read the street names
All that remains
Yes we have rebuilt you
At Pointe de Meuron
Where the soldiers came to invade you
There your names will live on
In the plays and the songs
For it's there we've come to know you
Northwesters made the dream come true
Canada, from sea to sea
It's because of you
Those trains roll on through
All that remains

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