Vantage Points Flashbacks

Short Audio Presentations of Local History Stories created by David Neufeld and Betty Sawatzky for the Turtle Mountain Souris Plains Heritage Association.

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Stories from... The RM of Two Borders and the Town of Melita #1: Goodbye at Sourisford  Charlie West felt invisible at Sourisford, before other began to arrive. Date: 1880   Place: Sourisford   : Municipality:  Two Borders     Themes Trails & Rivers  / Fur Trade / Dakota, Nakota & First Nations  / Community Cooperation & Organization #14: What Happened to Manchester?  Manchester wasn't the first town to find out that the name they chose was already taken. Themes Railways        Settler - Pre-Railroad     Community Cooperation & Organization   Churches & Religion     Government Influence 16: Story In a Stone  The story of buffalo rubbing stones many of which are still identifiable on the prairie landscape.. Themes   Land Knowledge & Archaeology     Animals #19: Eaton's Catalogue / Even The Schoolhouse Bell   We’ve been able to order everything from fashion to furnishings through the Eaton’s Catalogue – ever since it first came out in 1884, just when this part of the province was filling up with settlers. Themes                Schools & Teachers    Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs   Women Leaders    Commerce & Work #20: The Empress of Ireland (A Prairie Riverboat) Folks in Coulter would ask what is our local blacksmith doing building a riverboat in the middle of the prairies? Trails & Rivers            Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs          Biographies &Characters      Recreation   #21 Sitting Eagle  A visit from Sitting Eagle, the grandson of H'damani, the leader of IR #60, was an event many a child would remember. Themes   Dakota, Nakota & First Nations      Children    Land Knowledge & Archaeology     Cross Cultural Learning  Biographies &Characters      Government Influence #27: True Education  / Verona School Like many a one room school, it went from being the "centre of this community" to being merely a "Historic Site. Themes  Community Cooperation & Organization    Schools & Teachers       Children          Celebration #29 Walter Thomas - Before Dinner  Sometimes survical is about, choices Themes Trails & Rivers           Settler - Pre-Railroad      Community Cooperation & Organization         Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs      Health     Land Knowledge & Archaeology      Biographies &Characters    Events & Adventures #30: Walter Thomas - After Dinner  After a freak accident, some good fortune and a bit of kitchen table surgery saved his life. Themes Trails & Rivers             Settler - Pre-Railroad      Land Knowledge & Archaeology       Biographies &Characters #31: Ready to Dig at GainsboroughCreek   People farmed in Southwest Manitoba many centuroes ago. They farmed the same fields beside Gainsborough Creek for over 200 years - growing corn, squash and beans. Themes Trails & Rivers      Dakota, Nakota & First Nations         Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs   Women Leaders  Homesteading / Agriculture       Land Knowledge & Archaeology #47: My Jim Dandy Jim first moved to Pierson from Ontario with his birth family in 1891. Six years later, at the age of 31, he built and operated Pierson’s first hardware store Themes             Settler - Pre-Railroad    Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs  Women Leaders    Health      Commerce & Work     Biographies & Characters #56: Gone To The Dogs  / Dog Training in Broomhill Each summer whole families, mainly from the southern United States,  showed up in Broomhill. The local terain and climate was ideal for training hunting dogs. Themes Community Cooperation & Organization    Homesteading / Agriculture  Cross Cultural Learning   Biographies &Characters     Animals   #58:  Elephants at Melita It was around 1950. A Circus had visited Melita and was was heading to its next stop,when one of the trucks got stuck on a muddy road. Fortunately there were elephants to help out. Themes Community Cooperation & Organization         Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs            Animals #60: Paint by Roller - Norman Breakey of Pierson Long after leaving his home town of Pierson, Mr. Breakey made a really usefull invention. Themes    Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Biographies &Characters         Government Influence #61: Concrete Block Construction  / Home Blocks   What made this grand home affordable back in 1904, was that the Palmer block maker allowed the owner-builder to make blocks on-site with local gravel! Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources Themes   Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs   Children     Land Knowledge & Archaeology    Commerce & Work    Celebration

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