Nelsonville
Established in 1877, around Adam Nelson's grist mill on Silver Creek, Nelsonville flurished until bypassed by the railroad. The Nelsonville Manitoba Mountaineer was published from 1880 to 1885.
Community Histories
Articles and photographs of the Boulton family of the Nelsonville/Dunston district of southern Manitoba.
PMA_2022_062640
This booklet, originally published by Imperial Oil, provides an understanding of the culture of Southern Ontario in the 19th Century. Many of the original settlers of the Pembina Manitou District came from Southern Ontario in the 1880's.
PMA_2015_033289
This monograph is intended to support the research of the Darlingford School Museum. describing short histories of some of the first communities in the district and their demise at the arrival of the railroad. It was published by the Pembina Manitou Archive and the Boundary Trail National Heritage Region as part of the Partnerships with Museums 2021 project.
Financial support was provided by the Government of Manitoba.
It is for sale from the PMA by contacting pembinamanitouarchive@gmail.com.
Price $25
Shipping and Handling $15
PMA_2021_053641
Kroeker's photographic study of the reenactment of the Boundary Commission's journey and the celebration of the NWMP journey west.
PMA_2020_046814
A series of documents and photographs describing the early southern Manitoba community of Nelsonville.
PMA_2022_062641
This monograph is intended to highlight the museum's history, its relationship to the other communities on the line, and pointing out some of the anecdotes from along the line. It was published by the Pembina Manitou Archive and the Boundary Trail National Heritage Region as part of the Partnerships with Museums 2021 project.
Financial support was provided by the Government of Manitoba.
It is for sale from the PMA by contacting pembinamanitouarchive@gmail.com.
Price $25
Shipping and Handling $15.
PMA_2021_053636
A short history of the town of nelsonville, Manitoba.
PMA_2022_062643
The primary purpose of this research project, undertaken by Gerald Panting in 1953 for the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, was to discover what historical materials were still extant in the South Central district of Manitoba at that time. The secondary purpose was to obtain information about the pioneer days from people who knew about that period from first hand.
Files have been named based on the community - from Morden to Killarney - in which the pioneer lived in 1953, not according to where they originally settled.
PMA_2013_021162
The primary purpose of this research project, undertaken by Gerald Panting in 1953 for the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, was to discover what historical materials were still extant in the South Central district of Manitoba at that time. The secondary purpose was to obtain information about the pioneer days from people who knew about that period from first hand.
Files have been named based on the community - from Morden to Killarney - in which the pioneer lived in 1953, not according to where they originally settled.
PMA_2013_021161