Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba / Manitoba Heritage Council

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The designation of historic sites in Manitoba during the early 20th century was done by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. This Board continues today to identify sites, events, and persons of national significance in our province.

Provincial government participation in the recognition of important sites dates to 1946, when the Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba was established. This group of historians, architects, archaeologists and other citizens made recommendations to the provincial government to identify, protect, preserve, commemorate and interpret historically and architecturally significant sites, buildings, people and events in Manitoba. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Board sought to strengthen national sentiment by commemorating individuals and places of historic significance.

In the 1950s, the Board encouraged the establishment of commemorative plaques at scenic or strategic “wayside parks” in an attempt to popularize Manitoba history. Many of the plaques dealt with Manitoba’s early fur trade trails and trading posts. Centennial celebrations in 1967 and Manitoba’s centenary in 1970 saw increased activity, with an emphasis on commemorating political and historical themes, such as the boundaries of the “Postage Stamp Province” and the origin of the name “Manitoba”.

In the 1980s there was a trend to expand commemorative themes to represent those which have long been ignored as contributors to society: women, labour, ethnic and aboriginal heritage were highlighted. In 1986, with the new Heritage Resources Act, the name of the Board was changed to the Manitoba Heritage Council.

The earliest commemorative markers were wooden. Metal plaques were first erected in the late 1950s. Made of cast aluminum and mounted on a post, the familiar six-sided markers carry the Manitoba crocus symbol at the bottom. They are usually unilingual plaques. If a French version was deemed appropriate, a second plaque and mount accompanied the English version. Beginning in 1987, commemorative plaques were made of etched brass and secured either with a wall mount or on a white podium. These markers were either bilingual or trilingual and usually carried an illustration.

The most recent historic site designation by the provincial government was made in 2007. The responsibility for identifying and commemorating historic sites is now shifting to other jurisdictions, including the municipal governments of Manitoba. In 2010, the Manitoba Historical Society initiated its Historic Sites of Manitoba project to identify and promote a great diversity of historic sites around the province, encompassing but broadening the list beyond those designated officially at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels.

Chairs of the Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba / Manitoba Heritage Council

Period	Chair
?-?	Jean Friesen
1989-2001	William Neville
2002-2006	James Allum
2007-present	Sharon Reilly

Plaques Erected by the Historic Sites Advisory Board / Manitoba Heritage Council

4-H Clubs of Canada (Roland)

Abbey of Our Lady of the Prairies (St. Norbert)

Ancient Traders in Southern Manitoba (41 Ash Street, Melita)

The Anson Northup (Kildonan Park, Winnipeg)

Archway Warehouse, Jail and Powder Magazine (Norway House)

Asessippi Townsite (RM of Shellmouth-Boulton)

Assiniboin (Nakota) First Nation (Spruce Woods Provincial Park)

The Assiniboine River (St. François Xavier)

Bank of Nova Scotia (254 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg)

La Barrière (St. Norbert Provincial Heritage Park)

Beautiful Plains County Court Building (282 Hamilton Avenue, Neepawa)

Beginning of the Jewish Community in Manitoba (Winnipeg)

Georges-Antoine Belcourt (Elie)

Bender Hamlet (RM of Armstrong)

Boulder Mosaics (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

Boundary Commission Trail (Emerson)

Boundary Commission Trail - Turtlehead Crossing (RM of Winchester)

Brandon College (Brandon)

Brandon Courthouse and Gaol (525 Victoria Avenue East, Brandon)

Brandon Normal School (1129 Queens Street, Brandon)

Brant Consolidated School (Argyle, RM of Rockwood)

Pascal Breland (RM of St. François Xavier)

Reverend Henry Budd (The Pas)

Sir Thomas Button (Churchill)

Camp Hughes (RM of North Cypress)

Central Normal School (442 William Avenue, Winnipeg)

La Chapelle de Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours (St. Norbert)

Commonwealth Air Training Plan Hangar (Brandon)

Countess of Dufferin (Winnipeg)

Courier Publishing Company Building (Crystal City)

Norman Criddle (Spruce Woods Provincial Park)

Cuthbert Grant (St. François Xavier)

Dalnavert (61 Carlton Street, Winnipeg)

Thomas Mayne Daly (122 Eighteenth Street, Brandon)

Darlingford Memorial Park (Darlingford, RM of Pembina)

Dauphin Canadian Northern Railway Station (Dauphin)

Dauphin Town Hall (Dauphin)

Robert A. Davis (Winnipeg)

Dawson Road (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

Display Building Number II (Brandon)

Dorset Culture in Manitoba (Churchill)

Pre-Dorset Culture in Manitoba (Churchill)

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk (Winnipeg)

Edward Lancaster Drewry (Drewry Lane, Winnipeg)

Sir Joseph Dubuc (Winnipeg)

Dufferin (Winnipeg)

East and West Mossy Portages (Northern Manitoba)

Emerson Court House and Gaol (104 Church Street, Emerson)

A. C. Emmett and the Development of Manitoba’s Highways (Kirkella, RM of Wallace)

Extinct Bison of Manitoba (Binscarth)

Pierre Falcon (RM of St. François Xavier)

Peter Fidler (140 Jackson Street, Dauphin)

First Farmers in the Red River Valley (RM of St. Clements)

Flee Island Dakota Entrenchment (RM of Portage la Prairie)

Fort des Pinettes - Pine Fort (Spruce Woods Provincial Park)

Fort Ellice Trail (RM of St. François Xavier)

Fort Ellice Trail (Lions River Bend Park, Neepawa)

Fossil Elephants of Manitoba (Birds Hill Provincial Park)

Garry Telephone Exchange (474 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg)

Great-West Life Building (Winnipeg)

Frederick Phillip Grove (Rapid City)

Marc-Amable Girard (Winnipeg)

Glacial Lake Agassiz (Arden, RM of Lansdowne)

Glacial Lake Agassiz (Birch River Wayside Park)

Glenboro Canadian Pacific Railway Water Tower (Glenboro)

Government House (10 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg)

Grand Rapids Tramway (Northern Manitoba)

Thomas Greenway (Crystal City)

Griswold United Church (Griswold, RM of Sifton)

Grund Frelsis (Liberty) Lutheran Church (RM of Argyle)

Abraham Albert Heaps (Winnipeg)

E. Cora Hind (1355 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg)

Holy Ghost Polish Catholic Church (341 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg)

Hudson Bay Railway (Churchill)

Icelandic Settlement - Gimli (Gimli)

Icelandic Settlement - Riverton (Riverton)

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Temple (376 Mountain Avenue, Neepawa)

Inglis Grain Elevators (Inglis, RM of Shellmouth-Boulton)

Isbister School (310 Vaughan Street, Winnipeg)

Sigtryggur Jonasson (Gimli)

Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch (Winnipeg)

Captain William Kennedy (RM of St. Andrews)

Kildonan Presbyterian Church (201 John Black Avenue, Winnipeg)

Kildonan School (2373 Main Street, Winnipeg)

Knox Presbyterian Church (396 First Street, Neepawa)

Knox United Church (400 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg)

La Rivière Canadian Pacific Railway Station (RM of Pembina)

La Vérendrye (Winnipeg)

Thomas Henry Peacock Lamb (Moose Lake)

Margaret Laurence (Neepawa)

The Legend of the White Horse Plain (RM of St. François Xavier)

Legislative Building (Winnipeg)

Ambroise-Didyme Lépine (Winnipeg)

Lillian Beynon Thomas (960 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg)

Lord Selkirk (Scotland)

The Lynch Party (RM of Portage la Prairie)

Mandy Mine (Flin Flon)

Manitoba Agricultural College (Winnipeg)

Manitoba’s First Explorers (Boissevain)

The Manitoba Glass Factory (Beausejour)

Origin of the Name Manitoba (RM of Siglunes)

Manitoba Women’s Institute (Morris)

Nellie McClung (Manitou)

James McKay (2109 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg)

A. E. McKenzie Company Building (Brandon)

Duncan McRae (Lockport)

Mennonite East Reserve (Steinbach)

Mennonite West Reserve (Rosenfeld, RM of Rhineland)

Merchants Bank Building (Brandon)

Middle Track (The Pas)

Minnedosa Public Building (Minnedosa)

William Lewis Morton (Gladstone)

Jens Munk Expedition (Churchill)

The Nor’ Wester (269 Main Street, Winnipeg)

Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railway Repair Shop (Winnipeg)

Nurses’ Residence, Brandon Mental Health Centre (First Street, Brandon)

“Old Copper” in Manitoba (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

The Pas Community Building and Court House (The Pas)

The Passage (Winnipeg)

Paterson / Matheson House (1039 Louise Avenue, Brandon)

Paulencu House (Lennard, RM of Shellmouth-Boulton)

Chief Peguis (RM of St. Clements)

Pembina - Emerson Area (Emerson)

Pilot Mound (Pilot Mound)

Pinawa Power Site (Pinawa)

Postage Stamp Province (Gladstone)

Postage Stamp Province (Grand Marais)

Postage Stamp Province (Mariapolis)

Postage Stamp Province (Oak Point)

Postage Stamp Province (Piney)

Postage Stamp Province (Winnipeg Beach)

Thomas George Prince (Scanterbury, RM of St. Clements)

Ralph Connor House (54 West Gate, Winnipeg)

Red Deer Lumber Company (Swan River)

Red River Floodway (Duff Roblin Provincial Park)

Red River Settlement (Winnipeg)

Louis Riel (Winnipeg)

Rossville Mission (Norway House)

Gabrielle Roy (375 Deschambault Street, Winnipeg)

Joseph Royal (Tache Avenue, Winnipeg)

St. Andrew’s Anglican Church (RM of St. Andrews)

St. Anne’s Church (RM of Portage la Prairie)

St. Boniface (Winnipeg)

St. Elijah Romanian Orthodox Church (RM of Shellmouth-Boulton)

St. James Anglican Church (Winnipeg)

St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church (RM of Park)

St. John’s Cathedral (135 Anderson Avenue, Winnipeg)

St. Laurent Mission (RM of St. Laurent)

St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (Trembowla)

St. Michael’s Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church (Gardenton)

St. Norbert (St. Norbert Provincial Heritage Park)

St. Paul’s Middlechurch (Winnipeg)

St. Paul’s United Church (Boissevain)

St. Peter’s Dynevor Anglican Church (RM of St. Clements)

Ernest Thompson Seton (RM of North Cypress)

Seven Oaks House (115 Rupertsland Boulevard, Winnipeg)

Silver Heights (Winnipeg)

Frank Leith Skinner (RM of Shellmouth-Boulton)

Dr. David Alexander Stewart (Ninette, RM of Strathcona)

Stockton Ferry (RM of South Cypress)

Stonewall Post Office (Stonewall)

The Stonewall Quarries (Stonewall)

Stopping the Survey (Winnipeg) - plaque in storage

The Stott Site (RM of Whitehead)

Swan River Valley Plaque (Swan River)

Tamarisk United Church (RM of Grandview)

H. P. Tergesen General Store (82 First Avenue, Gimli)

Town of Morris (Morris)

Trembowla Cross of Freedom (RM of Dauphin)

Turtle Mountain Coal Mines (RM of Brenda)

Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (Cooks Creek)

Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Resurrection (Dauphin)

Ukrainian Labour Temple (591 Pritchard Avenue, Winnipeg)

Villa Louise (707 Louise Avenue, Brandon)

Virden Municipal Building and Auditorium (Virden)

Walker Theatre (Winnipeg)

Wasyl Negrych Homestead (RM of Gilbert Plains)

Westminster United Church (745 Westminster Avenue, Winnipeg)

Wigwam Restaurant and Park Theatre (Riding Mountain National Park)

Wild Ricing in Manitoba (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

The Winnipeg Aqueduct (Winnipeg)

Winnipeg Beach Canadian Pacific Railway Resort Water Tower (Winnipeg Beach)

Winnipeg Labour Temple (Winnipeg)

Winnipeg’s First Children’s Hospital (Winnipeg)

Major-General James Wolfe (Winnipeg)

The Wolseley Expedition (Bonnycastle Park, Winnipeg)

James Shaver Woodsworth (60 Maryland Street, Winnipeg)

Dr. Amelia Yeomans (Broadway, Winnipeg)

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Provincially Designated Historic Sites

Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques (Manitoba Historic Resources Branch)

Historic Sites of Manitoba (Manitoba Historical Society)

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

Canada’s Historic Places

Provincial Heritage Sites (Manitoba Historic Resources Branch)

Municipal Heritage Sites (Manitoba Historic Resources Branch)

Sources:

Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques: 1946 -1994, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship.

We thank Norm Larsen for providing a copy of the above report, which provided portions of the text for this page.

Information for this page was collected and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 21 April 2013

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