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Lilly Field Post Office and the Changes It Gone Through

The postal service, like all other fields of endeavour, has seen many changes over the past 100 years. Mail service came to Lilyfield, Manitoba to serve the people with the opening of the Post Office in 1896. There has never been a clear explanation as to exactly why the official stamp bore an extra “L”. [...]

The Young Sommerfeld Couple

Born and raised by Edward and Pauline Kujat in Poland, Augusta Sommerfeld (nee Kujat) was married with Adolf Sommerfeld. The couple exchanged their vows in Poland on December 27, 1939. Adolf and Augusta came to Canada in 1952, but before they came in Whitemouth, the young couple stayed in Alberta for quite some time. They [...]

First Europeans Wintering on Manitoba Soil

On August 27 he put into an estuary of a great river flowing from the Southwest to rest and refit, and consider his future course.  Before he was ready to sail, the sudden closing in of cold weather made it necessary to prepare to winter on that forbidding shore.  Dikes against the ice were built [...]