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Oil Exploration in the Lilyfield District
“In the very early 1920’s the late James Speers of Winnipeg headed a group of business men in financing the search for oil in the Lilyfield community. As a result of their enthusiasm and a conviction that oil could be discovered, an oil drilling rig was erected being the property owned by the late Mr. [...]
Gross Isle Oil Business
The local store carried drums of kerosene and gasoline. These were shipped out by train and settlers bought small amounts prior to 1920. In the early 1920’s tractors were becoming more common so A.J. Lobb built a shed near the elevator large enough to hold one and one-half carloads of drums. Gasoline, kerosene and distillate [...]
Gross Isle Blacksmith Shop
When A.J. Lobb purchased the general store and post office from the Charles brothers, he expanded the business by adding a blacksmith shop and a small home adjacent to the store.
William McCrimmon, the first blacksmith, was kept busy shoeing horses and doing farm repairs.
A new store was built in 1917 across from the railway station [...]
Lyle Lawrence: History and Contributions at Rosser
Lyle Lawrence in one of the sons of Reverend James Lawrence who have made huge notable contributions in Rosser. Like his father, Lyle had his own way to get into Rosser’s history.
Lyle and Emily Lawrence are known pioneers in Rosser, Manitoba. Although, Lyle was originally from Scotland, his family traveled across South Africa and settled [...]
Rosser’s Pool Elevator: A step toward modernization
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 [...]
Tracing the old Mennonites' journey
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 [...]
Memories of Manitoba
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by,
You might live in Manitoba .
If you’re proud that your province makes the national news 96 nights each [...]
Sway This Way
by Claudine Gervaise
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 [...]
A celebration of Winnipeg's storied North End
The mosaic village
A celebration of Winnipeg’s storied North End
HARAPIAK PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER TITTENBERGER Enlarge Image
Selkirk Avenue, the heart and soul of the North End, near its intersection with McGregor Street, 1960s.
WINNIPEG writer Russ Gourluck, whose specialty is local social history, launches his latest book tomorrow.
It’s called The Mosaic Village, and it documents Winnipeg’s colourful [...]
Explore Manitoba: Arborg
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 [...]
