The Settlement Period era – Community Histories

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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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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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 biography of one of Manitoba's foremost suffragists.

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A short history of the school district.

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Promotional Catalog of Farm Machinery available from Massey Harris

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A family history associated with the Landry family of the Scratching River community.

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A family history associated with the Landry family of the Scratching River community.

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