Manitou

A short history of the telephone exchange in Manitou with reference to the original subscribers. The MTS Archive has also donated a 1908 box telephone to the Nellie McClung Heritage Site.

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Selected pages from a facsimile of a document listing the Tradesmen in Manitoba and the Northwest in 1887.

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A mimeographed yearbook published in honour of the Manitou Youth Training Centre class of 1937-38.

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This article tells the story of Manitou's CPR Log Cabin, built in 1884 to house the railway workers then building the line west to LaRiviere. Ths article also tells of some of the posple who lived in the Log Cabin aver the past century, and of the Cabin's transition to become the Pembina Manitou  Log Cabin Tourism Centre.

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Lorne Thompson's report on the Manitou Gas House, which provided lighting to the homes and businesses of the community from 1906 to 1928, contains illustrations and photograph of the machinery used to produce the acetylene gas. The Gas House itself is one of Manitou's heritage buildings.

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The story of the misinterpretation of a fake stone signature created by a young Manitou citizen.

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A survey collection of short biographies of some of the many people who have influenced the lives of the people of the Manitou community, researched and compiled by Bette Mueller.

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A short article about McClung biographer Candace Savage.

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Bob Chalmers grew up across the lane from the McClung family and was one of the young people whom Nellie McClung immortalized in her book 'Sowing Seeds In Danny'. This document contains some of his memories of those days of his childhood.

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Charles Oke's reminiscences of Nellie McClung as published in the Western Producer.

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