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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”. [...]
Explore Manitoba: Old Fort Garry Gateway
The gate’s history is one of rejection and threatened destruction and its existence today, as the centerpiece of Fort Garry Gateway Park on the east side of Fort Street, seems due more to luck and happen stance than civic planning. The last remnant of Upper Fort Garry, which was dismantled in 1881-1882, the gate is [...]
Explore Manitoba: Royal Alexandra Hotel
The Royal Alexandra Hotel has 450 rooms inspired with the city’s luxurious lifestyle. In fact, the hotel even satisfied the exquisite taste of King Edward VIII as he spent few days in the hotel. Moreover, all the top players that appeared at Pantages or the Orpheum Theatre stayed at the Royal Alex. For years, the [...]
Old Rosser Elevator Stories: The New Career
The spring of 1948 was beautiful. I was working as a helper in the famous Manitoba Pool Elevator at Starbuck. A friend of mine who was working as a grain buyer in the Ogilvie Elevator asked me if I was interested in becoming a grain buyer. I thought it over for a couple of days [...]
Ogilvie Elevator at Rosser, Manitoba
In 1900 the Ogilvie Flour Mills Company Ltd. built a grain elevator on the south side of the railway just west of the CPR station.
The early records indicated that a different grain buyer was employed almost every year. In discussing this with personnel at Ogilvie’s, it was decided that the agent was only hired for [...]
Tittlemier’s Journey to Winnipeg
Rudolf was born in White Russia in 1890. The homeland was plagued with much unrest and threat of war; so, in 1910 Rudolf and his father Henry Tittlemier decided to emigrate. Men were being drafted into the army, and trained for war, so it was time to leave. Leaving Russia and crossing into Austria was [...]
A Brief Story about Jane Tait
July 14, 1901 marks the date of Jane Tait’s birth at River Hills close to Seven Sisters. Her mother was a Canadian from Ontario and her father was an Englishman from England. Coming from the west, Mr. Tait immigrated to Canada when he was 18 years old. At a very young age he sought for [...]
Walter Steiner
Walter Steiner’s grandparents arrived to Canada because it was not easy to make money in Europe. They purchased a homestead where Walter Steiner resides today and cleared it. Mr. Steiner’s grandpa travelled to Saskatchewan to assist with the harvest to earn some extra money.
Mr. Steiner attended Oldenburg School where he finished grade 7. His father [...]
The Old Winnipeg City Hall
The very first Winnipeg City Hall was constructed through the concert aid of the Winnipeg General Hospital in 1876. It was built at a cost of almost $40,000.
The plan for second City Hall appeared in the daily papers on June 16, 1883.However; the whole construction process was surrounded by lots of controversies. Nevertheless, [...]
