TRANSCRIPT
When the Davidson Brothers, Russell Hill and Bob Hackward came to find their homesteads their diary tells us that they walked from Arlington Beach to this area and back again. A steamboat on Last Mountain called the The Lady of the Lake (later christened Qu'appelle) that had brought the new homesteaders north, took them back again to Craven where they caught a stagecoach to Lumsden and then a train to Regina to register their land application.
The coming of the railroads soon put the Pearson steamboat transportation out of business. Even though the company turned to providing pleasure tours the old rundown boat no longer was safe and met its demise on November 11, 1918 when a celebrating crowd used it to make a victory bonfire."