The official acquirement of a super-modern elevator signaled Rosser’s entry to the world of modernized grain moving. The induction ceremony, on July 20, 1987, was attended by famous people from Manitoba Pool Elevators and CP Rail, with Charlie Mayer, the Minister of State at that time.

Two pool committees are affected with the merge of the Bergen and Gordon elevator at Rosser– obviously they are the Bergen and Gordon.

The creation of the 117-foot slip elevator took over a year to finish. It has a storage capacity of 245,000 bushels with 25 bins. Also it features: two 6000, bushels per hour steel legs with 50 h.p. motors with a 166-foot discharge height. The electronic receiving scale measures 10 x 80 foot with an automated overhead shipping scale and four split back pits. The elevator uses a Bisco 2488 screen machine for cleaning. The office and truck loadout are on the track side of the elevator; the siding has a capacity for 20 hopper cars; and the elevator is totally computerized.

Rene Monchalin was the manager of the elevator since its grand launch but he retired in 1991. Adrien Kolly replaced him and Richard Klassen is his assistant manager.

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Quebec City. Eight day of voyage, America can be seen through the telescope. The people were overjoyed in the hopes to set foot on solid ground again. At two in the afternoon a small blank line can be seen and it gradually came nearer. As they entered a gulf that was locked in the by high mountains on both side, the gulf got narrower and narrower and mountains came closer. There were fishing boats heading to start their business.

Soon countless lights shone and the old Mennonites knew that they reached the port of Quebec. Three times the ship sent a flare skyward. It sailed into harbor. The gates were opened for disembarking. A crowd of people were there, there to welcome those leaving the ship. Then the travelers were received as Canadian immigrants.

Duluth. This is where the travelers were recommended to buy tools, cook stoves and cooking utensils. So purchases were made and packed into the freight car. They spent one or two days there. From there, they continued to rail and came to a small town. It had only recently been founded and construction was in progress. It was called Fisher’s Landing.

Kansas.The travelers got here and were received by a large group of people. Among them were many Mennonite brethren who lived in Kansas. During the time when their forefathers moved from Germany to Russia they had moved to America. They came and tried to persuade them not to get to Manitoba. They said that two settlements had been made there before and these settlers had to turn back. They could not survive there because of the cold, raw, long winter.

Kansas Brethren insisted that other Mennonites should come to Kansas. The climate was milder there. Although many allowed themselves to be persuaded and went along to the south others remained firm. It had once negotiated their freedoms with the Queen but they hold true to it. The majority remained on their side.

Fort Dufferin. Nothing special in this town. There are only few plain houses. The main town can be found on the east side near the river. The travelers resided on the west side where the government told them so.

Life of the people at Fort Dufferin was quite a tough. Children weren’t able to recover fully from sea sickness and day after day, the little angels pass away. Food was one of the main concern, especially milk for small children. The Old Mennonites also offered to keep some of our poor people there to earn some money since they were in need of labourers for their large orchards.
When the cattle arrived and there was great joy, sick children will now have proper nutrition. To a degree this necessary supplement rejuvenated the children. But the sadness of the time was not completely taken away.

Reinland. The farmer had planted an orchard of wild cherry trees. Fehr, who so vividly recollected the fruit orchards in his native Russia, comments:”The fruit was in clusters and yet different than wine grapes.”

Since the fruit was now ripe one after another undertook to taste it and one after another drew his face into contortions and spit out the cherries. The general opinion was that this fruit could not be eaten. The immigrants had made their first encounter with chokecherries.

The group was warmly received at the farm. The cooking utensils were taken from the wagon and a meal was prepared. Fresh potatoes were purchased here at price of 80 cents per pail.

Fehr then described the arrival at Reinland. Because we could travel only with oxen, everything was slow. At last we came to the land. The land had been surveyed few days before and numbered. Our lot was the name of Reinland. After a three day journey we arrived at Reinland and pitched our tent. The government had ordered these terms for the immigrants at a very small cost to us.

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On July 30 to Aug 2 marks the day of the Mynarski Memorial Avro Lancaster Mk 10 Bomber headed by the Western Canadian Aviation Museum. This has been their second year of visit to the museum, following their previous visit in 1989 and 1990.

For the executive director of the museum, Shirley Render, the aircraft signifies a living history that has touched many lives. She received a letter regarding the plane last year that almost brought her to tears.

The Lancaster was active during the Second World War during the raids on the Ruhr dams in May 1943 and the sinking of German battleship Tirpitz in November 1944.

Over 7000 people saw the Lancaster and its crew last year. Render in anticipating a bigger number this year.

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William Henry (Squire) Sowden was a risk taker. In 1880, he joined with a few like-minded entrepreneurs to take advantage of a government offer granting companies the right to purchase large sections of the prairie- if they agreed to attract settlers to live there. By 1904, Sowden owned a number of lots in the Souris district that he hoped would become the town’s first suburb. But just like today, location was everything. Because most of the community was on the west bank of the Souris River, Sowden decided to provide a direct route to the downtown business district by building a footbridge. His first effort wasn’t windproof and it flipped over; Sowden then attached guide wires to either side of the platform and anchored cabkes to cement blocks buried on each riverbank. Though a flood in 1976 destroyed the structure, the Souris Swinging Bridge was rebuilt the following year and is now Canada’s longest historic suspension bridge at 177.4 metres. And you don’t have to be a risk taker to cross it.

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Gimli 1st Avenue Looking South 1968

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Gimli Street 1968

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Gimli Center Street 1968

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Gimli Park 1967

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Arborg, Manitoba in September 1971

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