Located in central NS, at the mouth of the Avon and St. Croix rivers. Its short distance from Halifax (66km) has long made Windsor a town of commuters. It was first settled by Acadians in 1684 and was called Pisiquid, a name of Micmac origin. The English township of Windsor (after Windsor, Eng) was established in 1764, and wealthy Halifax businessmen and politicians were granted land here. During the American Revolution, troops were kept at Windsor’s Ft Edward to ensure the loyalty of Annapolis Valey residents. Following the war, many loyalists came to the town. They farmed, traded and opened shops, disrupting the pastoral luxury of the big Windsor estates. In 1789 Bishop Charles Inglis established University of King College, the oldest university in Canada. It is now located in Halifax. Windsor thrived during the 1800s, gaining sawmills, furniture and fertilizer factories, foundry, tannery, cotton mill and plaster mine. The arrival of the first train to Windsor in 1858 tied the town closer to Halifax. Today, Windsor is mainly residential. Light manufacturing and tourism are the main industries. Visitors may see the remains of Ft. Edward and “Clifton”, the home of Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, the famous 19th-century author and creator of Sam Slick.

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This is one of the earlier faces of Arborg, Manitoba back in September 1971. The name of the town was driven from the an Icelandic word that means “town by a river.” This is located in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost in Manitoba’s Interlake Region, 103 kilometres north of Winnipeg. The world’s largest curling rock is found here in Arborg, Manitoba, which measures 4.2 meters across and 2.1 meters tall.

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The cultivation of grapes to produce wine occurs in only 2 areas of Canada; Southwestern Ontario and the Okanagan Valley of BC. In Canada, historically, the basis of wine has been grapes from N. American Vitis labrusca vines; in Europe V. vinifera wines are used. However, there has been a dramatic change in the past decade, and today over half the wine in Canada is made from hybrids of vinifera vines.

Through the 19th century, wine making was a cottage-industry. Grapes were grown in many areas. However, in 1873 George Barnes started a larger winery at St. Catherines that is still operating. A year later, Thomas Bright and a partner began what is today Canada’s largest winery. The wild blue Concord grape accounted for 70% of all production and ensured a predominance of red wines. The wine was invariably “fortified” with spirits to produce port or sherry, a practice that continued until the 1960s.

Two significant developments occurred during the 1920s. First, the BC wine industry was started in Vancouver I to make use of surplus loganberries. The industry then expanded to irrigated lakeside grape plots in the arid Okanagan. Second, the sale of domestic wine was permitted in Ontario during prohibition, leading to creation of a multiplicity of wineries, many producing drink of dubious quality. As a result, when prohibition ended, wine making, marketing and sale came under strict regulation by provincial liquor commissions, beginning in Ontario. In consequence, quality control of both domestic and imported wines is now possibly the highest in the world and Ontario is exploring further improvements in wine standards for 5 categories; varietals, vintage, estate bottled, superior, wines and champagne.

Standards of production (from crushing and pressing to clarification) have also improved. Many wine makers come to Canada after rigorous European oenological training. Grape harvesting by machine to reduce labor costs is common. New cellarage of the highest hygienic standards has been added. Canadian wines in 1983 won more than 35 medals in international competitions. Canadian wine making has become scientific and has spread; wineries now exist in 7 provinces. In 1981 there were 33 wineries in Canada, producing products valued at more than $191 million. Canadian vintners are concerned about the industry’s inability to achieve 1 50-50 import-domestic market share of liquor-board listings; the figure was 37% in 1983. The industry us represented by the Canadian Wine Institute.

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The name “Winnipeg” originated from the Cree words meaning muddy water, referring to the dark water of the rivers and lakes in the region. It is the largest city in Manitoba and serves as the capital too.

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“Fort Garry in Ruins,” announced a headline in the Manitoban, dated May 27, 1871. “Not exactly the entire Fort, reader, but a considerable portion of the stone wall fronting on the Red River. It has been threatening a tumble down for a long time, and lest it might fall into the Fort, some men were employed by the Company to throw it down so that it would fall outside. The bastions and a portion of the wall immediately adjoining them still stand, but in decidedly bad condition. The side gate entrance to the Fort, fell among the ruins.”

Thirty-two years later, an English writer for the London Daily Bulletin toured the city and stumbled upon what remained of the historic landmarks. He wrote; “Then you stroll out to this very everyday twentieth century place and follow the street a little further, till you observe something standing alone on your right— a tiny building of rough stone. It is not twelve feet high, and you have seen bigger and better building put up to stable two or three horses.”

The English writer was able to encapsulate the significance of what he saw and place fort into an historical context, more so than local residents, who allowed the “tiny building” to diminish in importance through indifference.

Yet the photos of it have met you at every corner of the own, and you stand and gaze at this old relic— this one bit of history in this world of newness— Fort Garry, the nucleus from which Manitoba’s,metropolis roaring around you has sprung: Fort Garry, the old headquarters of the great Hudson’s Bay Company you have just left; Fort Garry, the destination and crown of Lord Wolseley, he put down the Red River rebellion under Louis Riel in 1870.

It was this English traveler who wistfully gazed upon what had been and commented: “Modern commercialism and the Philistine allurements of land-gambling, have, alas! Caused the pulling down of the greater part of the old fort, so that all one sees is little beyond the gateway. Sentiment woke when it was too late, and now Winnipeg mourns forever the act of vandalism she permitted in her midst.”

In 1883, the east wall was demolished to straighten out Main Street. By the fall of 1886, four of the largest structure still standing on the old fort site were sold at auction by HBC for just $292. The former Governors House, home to Manitoba’s first lieutenant-governor, netted a paltry $100 as firewood.

What remained- the gate and the land it stood on were given as gift to the city by the HBC in 1897 “as a public park forever”. But more years of neglect followed, and the gate became an isolated and forlorn reminder that the fort had once been the focal point of the Red River Settlement founded by Lord Selkirk; the sire of Louis Riel’s provisional government during 1869-70; as well as where the founding of a new province within Canada was first envisioned.

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Until the early 19th century most inhabitants of what is now Canada traveled mainly by water. Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser demonstrated that it is possible, by portaging 100 times, to canoe from the St. Lawrence to the Arctic or Pacific oceans.

The first trails around waterfalls and rapids were often made by moose. Then Indians used the same paths, carrying their marvelously light birchbark canoes. The organized fur trade required the transport of heavy goods. Voyageurs were expected to hoist 2 packs each weighing about 41kg. The first was slung on the back with a tumpline across the forehead and second was placed on top. It was fatiguing work, usually done at a slow jog to reduce the strain on the back. On a long portage, the voyageurs would dump loads at poses every kilometer or so and go back for more loads. Two or 4 voyageurs would combine to carry the North or Montreal canoes, and when heavy York Boats came into widespread use in the 1820s, portages were often equipped with the rollers.

Packhorses were used on the trail to Ft Assiniboine and across the Athabasca pass. Oxcarts were needed for the heavier freight on Portage La Loche and at Ft Smith. In eastern Canada, canals and roads improved and supplemented water routes. At Niagra and between Montreal and the Richelieu R, early “portage railways” were a partial answer to transport needs. The Grand Trunk Ry in the 1850’s and the Canadian Pacific Ry in the 1880s marked the shift to continuous land transport across southern Canada.

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The Provincial Board of Health was responsible for the regulation of health care in the Province of Manitoba. At a meeting in 1897 made mandatory “the notification of every known case of smallpox, diphtheria and scarlet fever shall be immediately given to the Health Officer of the Municipality.

At a meeting in 1900 adequate protection against the importation of infectious diseases, through foreign immigration to Manitoba was discussed. As a result Municipal and Health Officers were sent a circular on the benefits of vaccination as protection against smallpox.

In April, 1916 the Provincial Board of Health passed a regulation to “select a sufficient number (of District Health Nurses) to meet the present requirements of health administration throughout the province.., at salaries not to exceed $75 per month and traveling and living expenses while on duty outside their respective regular places of domicile.”

Before there were Nursing Stations in Rosser, the District Health Nurse lived in Selkirk and covered the Interlake area. At that time duties would include school inspections, immunizations clinics, etc.

The Nursing Station and resident Public Health Nurse came about because many doctors were signing up to serve in the armed services in World War II and it was often difficult to get medical attention when needed. A request by the Rosser Women’s Institute to Rosser Council and Provincial Department of Health resulted in the arrival of Public Health Nurse Helen Patterson in Rosser. She was followed by Phyllis Hammond and then Margaret Leslie.

The nurse worked from 9:00 am. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, and from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. She was expected to spend most weekends in the community and take an active part in community life. As well the nurse was on call for any emergency that might arise. Her duties included: regular inspection of each child in each school in the municipality, with notes sent home to each child’s parent about any health problems encountered followed by a home visit; home visits to ex-TB patients, all newborns, pregnant mothers, diabetics and seniors; immunization clinics for school and preschool children as well as baby and preschool clinics; quarantine for communicable disease; emergencies.

In July of 1946 the Provincial Department of Health set up the Health Unit system now in place. The nursing station was closed and the resident nurse moved to another location. With the Health Unit, the Health Department phased out the emergency service for Rosser. Rosser Municipality was served by the Public Health nurse from the Stonewall Health Unit Office and this continues today.

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