sentences:  As settlement developed the trails became a "common carrier" for all manner of goods that could be carried by ox cart, including lamps and coal oil to burn in them, fine cloth, books, general merchandise, champagne, sheet-metal stoves, disassembled farm machinery and at least one piano, and a printing press and other accoutrements for the first newspaper in the Fort Garry region.The typical carters were descended from French of the fur trade and their Ojibway spouses.Their conveyance was the Red River ox cart, a simple vehicle derived either from the two-wheeled used in French Canada, or from Scottish carts.