Historic Sites of Manitoba: Abandoned Manitoba

Map of historic sites featured in the series

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On the Road to Abandoned Manitoba

On the Road to
Abandoned Manitoba

Abandoned Manitoba

Abandoned Manitoba

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In collaboration with the Weekend Morning Show at CBC Manitoba, the Manitoba Historical Society is highlighting history around the province. Among the places and subjects profiled in this weekly radio feature are schools, churches, stores, homes, grain elevators, military bases, and more. If you would like to suggest a topic for a future installment of the series, please contact the MHS Webmaster.

Past Episodes

Broadcast Date

Topic

MP3 Audio

6 October 2024

Architectural highlights of Point Douglas, one of Winnipeg's earliest neighbourhoods

 

29 September 2024

Some deaths on the Manitoba home front during the First World War and Second World War, including ones at the No. 33 Service Flying Training School near Carberry and men commemorated by the Camp Hughes Cemetery and a monument near Cardale

11 minutes

22 September 2024

Manitoba Business: Macleods Limited / Macleod Stedman Limited

11 minutes

15 September 2024

Seven octagonal buildings in rural Manitoba: Clearwater Water Tower (Clearwater, Municipality of Louise), MacGregor Water Tower (Manitoba Agricultural Museum), Carberry Agricultural Society Building (Fairgrounds, Carberry), Minnedosa Agricultural Society Building (Minnedosa), Virden Agricultural Society Building (Virden), Sovereen House (Swan Valley Historical Museum, Swan River), Logan Barn (RM of Minto-Odanah)

12 minutes

8 September 2024

The architectural heritage of Baldur: Fowler House (Elizabeth Street), St. Mark’s Anglican Church (Oak Creek Road), Fowler Block (Elizabeth Street), Baldur United Church (Second Street), Immanuel Lutheran Church (Oak Creek Road), Poole Building / Argyle Museum (Elizabeth Street), Lee's Food Mart (Elizabeth Street), and Manitoba Pool Elevator (Centennial Crescent)

10 minutes

1 September 2024

Manitoba businesses from the 1870s and earlier that are still operating today

10 minutes

25 August 2024

Ghost towns named for Manitoba premiers: Greenway, Norquay, Bracken (Saskatchewan), but not Garson or Macdonald

11 minutes

18 August 2024

New adventures in making videos about Manitoba historic sites: McArthur Cemetery (RM of Oakview) and MS River Rouge (Selkirk)

10 minutes

11 August 2024

A recap of the Sunshine Highway Relic Run

11 minutes

4 August 2024

The architectural heritage of Carberry

10 minutes

28 July 2024

Ten endangered structures around Manitoba (2024)

14 minutes

21 July 2024

The Threshermen's Reunion at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum

12 minutes

14 July 2024

The Sunshine Highway Relic Run

10 minutes

7 July 2024

The lift-slab method of building construction

10 minutes

30 June 2024

The Machray scandal of 1932

11 minutes

23 June 2024

The Manitoba legacy of Thomas Kelly

14 minutes

16 June 2024

Events and sites believed to have occurred for the first time.

14 minutes

9 June 2024

What does historical designation of a building truly mean?

11 minutes

2 June 2024

Manitoba’s Historic Summer Cottages at Dunnottar, Gimli, Grand Marais, and Winnipeg Beach

9 minutes

26 May 2024

Rover Avenue Electric Terminal (199 Annabella Street, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

19 May 2024

2024 Lieutenant Governor's Awards for Historical Promotion and Preservation: Sabrina Janke, Jordan Makichuk, Albert McLeod, Lyle Morran, Lily Stearns

9 minutes

12 May 2024

Video about Port Nelson on MHS YouTube channel goes viral

The architectural heritage of Manitou: Manitoba City School Houses (215-219 Fuller Avenue), Log Cabin Tourist Centre (Main Street), McLaren Medical Hall (412 Main Street), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Front Avenue), Dominion Post Office Building (339 Main Street), Manitou Gas House (408 Carrie Street), Manitou Opera House (325 Main Street), Canadian Pacific Railway Station (Front Avenue), Hazel Cottage (Main Street), and McClung House (Main Street)

At least three historic buildings in Manitou would not be there if not for local heritage advocates like Bill Wallcraft

12 minutes

5 May 2024

The evolution of Winnipeg telephone numbers between 1878 and 2012

13 minutes

28 April 2024

Two famous Americans in Manitoba: Samuel Langhorne Clements (aka. Mark Twain) and William Frederick Cody (aka. Buffalo Bill)

12 minutes

21 April 2024

Steam locomotives: Countess of Dufferin (Winnipeg Railway Museum), Steam Locomotive No. 30 (Powerview-Pine Falls), Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotive No. 2747 (735 Kildare Avenue West, Winnipeg), Canadian National Railways Steam Locomotive No. 6043 (Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg), Portland Cement Association Monument and Quarry (Steep Rock, RM of Grahamdale), Port Nelson Locomotive (Manitoba Agricultural Museum), Steam Locomotive No. 3 (1 Prairie Dog Trail, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

14 April 2024

Searching for the Principal Meridian (RM of St. Francois Xavier)

11 minutes

7 April 2024

Updates on previous episodes of Abandoned Manitoba: Summerville Curling Rink (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford), CKX Radio Building (220 Eighth Street, Brandon), Aberr Apartments (363 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg), Bieldy Apartments (365 Mountain Avenue, Winnipeg), Glenora Apartments (774 Toronto Street, Winnipeg), Wilson Apartments (518 Burrows Avenue, Winnipeg), Guest Block (596-598 Main Street, Winnipeg), Weidman Warehouse (244-246 Jarvis Avenue, Winnipeg), more lonely houses in WInnipeg's core, St. Mary’s Winter Vault (506 Osborne Street, Winnipeg), and Dominion Bridge Plant (1480-1500 Dublin Avenue, Winnipeg)

12 minutes

30 March 2024

Henderson Directories and the Henderson Directories Building (279-281 Garry Street, Winnipeg)

14 minutes

24 March 2024

Brown and Rutherford (5 Sutherland Avenue, Winnipeg)

12 minutes

17 March 2024

Taiga Biological Station (Eastern Manitoba)

12 minutes

10 March 2024

Stereoviews by SImon Duffin, Frederick V. Bingham, and Alexander Barton Thom

10 minutes

3 March 2024

“Protecting Our Ancestors”: a Winnipeg conference relating to Indigenous burial sites in Canada

12 minutes

25 February 2024

Dominion Bridge Plant (1480-1500 Dublin Avenue, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

18 February 2024

Events that occurred on this day in history

13 minutes

11 February 2024

A tour of the architectural heritage of Virden

12 minutes

4 February 2024

Memorial parks in Winnipeg

11 minutes

28 January 2024

The Boundary Trail Heritage Region, founded in 1993, the first of its kind in western Canada, the fifth in all of Canada, now the only one left

9 minutes

21 January 2024

International Interprovincial Boundary Monument (Municipality of Two Borders)

10 minutes

14 January 2024

Winnipeg Hydro Showroom (55 Princess Street, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

7 January 2024

Historic structures lost in 2023:
Bank of Montreal Building (22 Second Avenue, Austin, Municipality of North Norfolk)
Bank of Montreal Building (33 Main Street, Carberry)
Barney's Motel (Trans-Canada Highway, Brandon)
Bell Block (813-815 Main Street, Winnipeg)
Brandon YWCA Building (148 Eleventh Street, Brandon)
Concrete Beam Bridge No. 1000 (Roseisle Creek, RM of Dufferin)
Fallout Reporting Post KE4 (Northwest Angle Provincial Forest)
Falls House (36 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg)
Fire Hall No. 15 (1083 Autumnwood Drive, Winnipeg)
Imperial Oil Warehouse (960 Logan Avenue, Winnipeg)
Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (St. Jean Baptiste, RM of Montcalm)
Pine Falls School No. 2155 (Walnut Street, Powerview-Pine Falls)
Saigon Apartments (51 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg)
Shriberg Block (1059 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg)
Spanish Church of God (420 Tweed Avenue, Winnipeg)
Vulcan Iron Works (105 Maple Street North, Winnipeg)
Windsor Hotel (187 Garry Street, Winnipeg)
Windsor Park Library (955 Cottonwood Road, Winnipeg)
No. 10 Service Flying Training School Hangar (RM of Dauphin)

10 minutes

30 December 2023

Memorable Manitobans lost in 2023

12 minutes

23 December 2023

Buildings from the early gasoline industry: British American Service Station (591 Academy Road, Winnipeg), North Star Service Station (412 Nairn Avenue, Winnipeg), Prairie Cities Oil Building (1380 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg), Imperial Oil Cooperage (955 Alexander Avenue, Winnipeg), Meleb Service Station (Meleb, RM of Armstrong), Neufeld Brothers Garage (Randolph, RM of Hanover), Trans-Canada Garage (Whitemouth, RM of Whitemouth)

11 minutes

17 December 2023

Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (St. Jean Baptiste, RM of Montcalm)

9 minutes

10 December 2023

The Winnipeg Press Club, established in 1887, defunct in 2023

10 minutes

3 December 2023

Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba

11 minutes

26 November 2023

Ten suggestions for addition to the City of Winnipeg's list of designated heritage structures: Cohen Terrace (346-352 Arnold Avenue / 707 Nassau Street South), Craig Block (795 Main Street), Hindu Society of Manitoba Temple (854 Ellice Avenue), North Panama Apartments (229 Machray Avenue), River Heights Telephone Exchange Building (413 Niagara Street), Safeway Store No. 510 (719 St. Matthews Avenue), Transcona Winter Vault (Dugald Road), Union Bank Building (409 Selkirk Avenue), Union Stockyards Water Tower (Marion Street), Winnipeg Hydro Substation No. 5 (Scotland Avenue)

11 minutes

19 November 2023

Installing a monument for Ferndale School No. 498 (RM of Macdonald) and Ferndale United Church (RM of Macdonald)

10 minutes

12 November 2023

Manitoba's two designated heritage objects: Skippy L (Devon Park, The Pas) and Timothy Eaton Statue (345 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

5 November 2023

Telling the story of historic places using QR codes

9 minutes

29 October 2023

Compressing little-known stories about local history into one minute: Manitoba Heritage Minutes

9 minutes

22 October 2023

The new book On the Road to Abandoned Manitoba

9 minutes

15 October 2023

Polo Park Racetrack, Polo Park Shopping Centre, and Polo Park Cinema (1485 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

8 October 2023

Napinka Fire Hall, Jail, and Restroom (Napinka, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada)

10 minutes

1 October 2023

Single-digit victories in Manitoba elections

14 minutes

24 September 2023

Updates: Max Blankstein’s Shriberg Block (1059 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg); Barney’s Motel (Trans-Canada Highway, Brandon); Telecommunications Repeater Stations 1, 2 and 3 and the legacy of architect Robert B. Ross; the disappearing Red River cruise ships: Paddlewheel Queen, Paddlewheel Princess, and River Rouge; the Manitoba Refinery Building (542 Plinguet Street, Winnipeg); and Archibald Engine House (198 Archibald Street, Winnipeg)

17 minutes

17 September 2023

The three “lonely houses” in Winnipeg’s central core: 236 Edmonton Street, 415 Graham Avenue, 130 Fort Street

11 minutes

10 September 2023

Keewayden Building (138 Portage Avenue East, Winnipeg) and fire insurance maps

13 minutes

3 September 2023

The basis for street names in Brandon

14 minutes

27 August 2023

The basis for street names in Portage la Prairie

12 minutes

20 August 2023

Public liquor consumption after the repeal of Prohibition

10 minutes

13 August 2023

Salisbury House North Main (1545 Main Street, Winnipeg) and Salisbury House Drive-In (1860 Ellice Avenue, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

6 August 2023

2023 Lieutenant Governor's Awards for Historical Promotion and Preservation

9 minutes

30 July 2023

Thunderbird Bowl (149 Tenth Street, Brandon)

11 minutes

23 July 2023

Ten endangered structures around Manitoba (2023)

13 minutes

16 July 2023

Return to Port Nelson and York Factory

9 minutes

9 July 2023

Pine to Prairie Relic Run: The Recap

10 minutes

2 July 2023

Pine to Prairie Relic Run: Driving five old cars from Ontario to Saskatchewan along the original Trans-Canada Highway

10 minutes

25 June 2023

Four former customs buildings at Emerson: Emerson Customs Building, Dominion Post Office Building, Emerson Customs Building, Emerson Customs Building

10 minutes

11 June 2023

Concrete block buildings: Matchettville School No. 1342 (Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne), Booth Concrete Granary (Municipality of North Norfolk), Thomson Concrete Barn (Municipality of North Norfolk), Price Concrete Barn (Municipality of North Norfolk), Ritzer House (Municipality of North Norfolk), A. E. Gardiner Building (116 Main Street, Carberry), Union Bank Building (53 Railway Avenue, Waskada, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada), Northcote School No. 396 (RM of Killarney-Turtle Mountain), Tenby School No. 872 (Tenby, Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne), Katz House (38 Fifth Avenue NE, Dauphin), St. Peter and St. James Anglican Church (74 Church Street, Flin Flon)

10 minutes

28 May 2023

Former newspaper buildings: Minnedosa Tribune Building, Virden Empire-Advance Building, Brandon Sun Building

10 minutes

14 May 2023

Abandoned saltmaking facilities in northern Manitoba and at Neepawa

10 minutes

30 April 2023

The former Union Bank building at Waskada (Municipality of Brenda-Waskada), the Bergthaler Waisenamt at Altona, and the rise of credit unions in Manitoba

9 minutes

16 April 2023

28 British Commonwealth Air Training Plan sites around Manitoba

10 minutes

2 April 2023

The architectural legacy of the Blankstein family: Max Zev Blankstein (1874-1931), Cecil Nathan Blankstein (1908-1989), Evelyn Blankstein (1913-2001), and Morley Blankstein (1924-2015)

10 minutes

19 March 2023

Lakeside Fresh Air Camp for Children (RM of Gimli)

9 minutes

5 March 2023

Barney Mollot and his business empire in Brandon, including the abandoned Barney's Motel

11 minutes

19 February 2023

Union Stockyards (Marion Street, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

5 February 2023

Historic sites along Manitoba’s portion of the Trans-Canada Trail, including Mountain Glen School

10 minutes

22 January 2023

Abandoned Manitoba Revisited: an update on the Birtle Indian Residential School

See this video inside the former residential school.

10 minutes

8 January 2023

Some historic structures lost in 2022: Brandon Dairy Farm (1917), Shriners Hospital (1949), Boulton House (1929), Gilchrist House (1932), Gladstone Hotel (?), Rennie Hotel (1939), Capri Motel (?), Pembina Hotel (1953), Elva grain elevator (1897), Elva grain elevator (1916), Tyndall grain elevator (1948), Crystal City grain elevator (1928), Gobert family grain elevator (1920), Kenora Apartments (1914), Tremont Apartments (1914), Ferndale Apartments (1914), Agassiz Youth Centre (1908), St. James Telephone Exchange Building (1916), Virden concrete arch bridge (1924), Virden concrete arch bridge (1920), Holmfield concrete beam bridge (1925). And soon to be demolished: Saigon Apartments (1952).

11 minutes

31 December 2022

Some Memorable Manitobans we lost in 2022

13 minutes

18 December 2022

Updates on previous episodes: Mallard Lodge, La Riviere Ski Slopes, Duck Factory #1, Shriners Hospital, Deleau Hoppers, Tree Planting Car, McLaren Stone Outhouse, Red River Cereal

15 minutes

11 December 2022

Pedestrian Subway (Sixth Avenue South, Virden) and Pedestrian Subway (Main Street, Dauphin)

10 minutes

4 December 2022

Pineland Forest Nursery (Sandilands Provincial Forest, RM of Reynolds)

10 minutes

27 November 2022

Blackwood Pickle Factory Building and Blackwood Soda Factory (Mulvey Avenue East, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

20 November 2022

Inglis Grain Elevators (Inglis, RM of Riding Mountain West)

11 minutes

13 November 2022

The fall of a concrete giant, the former Viterra grain elevator near Rosser (RM of Rosser)

10 minutes

6 November 2022

Remembering the First World War through the art of Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald

12 minutes

30 October 2022

The ghost town of Nelsonville (RM of Thompson)

9 minutes

23 October 2022

Trespassing in two abandoned country farmhouses

9 minutes

16 October 2022

An MHS project that asks the question “When is an apartment block NOT an apartment block?”

10 minutes

9 October 2022

Gypsum loading facility (Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

11 minutes

2 October 2022

Phantom Lake (Flin Flon)

9 minutes

25 September 2022

Heritage harvesting on the Johanson farm (Langruth, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

10 minutes

18 September 2022

Manitoba Refinery Building (542 Plinguet Street, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

11 September 2022

A mysterious death in 1946, possibly by murder, of a farmer near Deloraine that involves abandonment

9 minutes

4 September 2022

Gruber Hamlet, the first Jewish farm settlement in Manitoba (RM of Mossey River)

10 minutes

28 August 2022

Blue plaques on homes of noteworthy Manitobans

12 minutes

21 August 2022

Our Lady of the Prairies Trappist Monastery (RM of Victoria)

11 minutes

14 August 2022

Challenges faced by Manitoba's provincial heritage agencies that could lead to their collapse

12 minutes

7 August 2022

Winnipeg's plague of abandoned buildings

10 minutes

31 July 2022

Grain elevators who are not quite there: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Graysville, RM of Dufferin) and Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator A (Langruth, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

11 minutes

24 July 2022

An attempt to visit the Kanuchuan Generating Station near Gods Lake in northern Manitoba

13 minutes

17 July 2022

Return to Port Nelson

13 minutes

10 July 2022

Doors Open Brandon

11 minutes

3 July 2022

The MHS list of top-10 endangered structures for 2022

11 minutes

26 June 2022

An updates episode: Winkler Water Tower, Tyndall Grain Elevator, Royal Canadian Legions, St. James Telephone Exchange Building, original Safeway stores in Portage la Prairie and Deloraine, Medicine Rock Cafe, St. Vladimir's College, Elephant Brand Fertilizer Elevator at Carman

11 minutes

19 June 2022

An abandoned ritual: Beer and Skits of the Winnipeg Press Club

12 minutes

12 June 2022

Two long-time Portage institutions set to close: Manitoba Development Centre and Agassiz Youth Centre

11 minutes

5 June 2022

Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board Building / Manitoba Hydro Building (650 Harrow Street, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

29 May 2022

People in Manitoba who did things first

12 minutes

22 May 2022

Research on fallout reporting posts at the national archives in Ottawa

10 minutes

15 May 2022

Park pavilions: Assiniboine Park Pavilion (55 Pavilion Crescent, Winnipeg), Peguis Pavilion (Kildonan Park, Winnipeg), Errick F. Willis Pavilion (International Peace Garden)

10 minutes

8 May 2022

The meat market that is just a basement: North End Mennonite Brethren Church (533 Burrows Avenue, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

1 May 2022

The summer fun spot of Minaki that what would have been in Manitoba if circumstances had been different

10 minutes

24 April 2022

Small private cemeteries in southern Manitoba, including Highway 30 Mennonite Cemetery (Municipality of Rhineland) and Neu-Reinland Cemetery (RM of Stanley)

10 minutes

10 April 2022

Little Portage (Saskatchewan Avenue East, RM of Portage la Prairie)

9 minutes

3 April 2022

Maternity Pavilion / Women’s Pavilion / Women’s Hospital (735 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

27 March 2022

Section-Township-Range versus civic addressing versus latitude-longitude for locating historic sites

9 minutes

20 March 2022

More Memorable Manitobans: Aloha Wanderwell, William Anger, Kathleen Rice, Harry Wasylyk, Gladys Balsillie, and Albert Westgate

11 minutes

13 March 2022

Deconstruction of Canada's oldest grain elevator at Elva (Municipality of Two Borders)

10 minutes

6 March 2022

Star Lake Gold Mine (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

10 minutes

27 February 2022

Chain Lakes Quaker Meeting House / Dand United Church (Dand, Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester)

9 minutes

20 February 2022

Masonic halls, including one whose location will not be disclosed: Union Historical Lodge No. 108 (Manitoba Agricultural Museum), Masonic Temple (335 Donald Street, Winnipeg), Elkhorn Lodge No. 74 (Richhill Avenue, Elkhorn, RM of Wallace-Woodworth), Prince of Wales Lodge No. 14 (52 Second Avenue SW, Minnedosa), Manitouwapa Lodge No. 156 (Moosehorn, RM of Grahamdale), Patricia Lodge No. 125 (Sperling, RM of Morris)

11 minutes

13 February 2022

Abandoned cruise ships of the Red River: Paddlewheel Queen, Paddlewheel Princess, River Rouge, Lady Winnipeg, and Lord Selkirk II

10 minutes

6 February 2022

John Ashley Robinson (c1883-1950), the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, and the Craig Block (795 Main Street, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

30 January 2022

House of Ashkenaze Synagogue (297 Burrows Avenue, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

23 January 2022

Remnants of Eaton’s in Manitoba: Timothy Eaton Statue (345 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg), Eaton’s Department Store (345 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg), Eaton’s Power House Building (260 Hargrave Street, Winnipeg), Eaton’s Mail Order and Catalogue Building (333 St. Mary Avenue, Winnipeg), Eaton’s Printing Plant and Warehouse (130 Galt Avenue, Winnipeg), Eaton’s Department Store (Main Street North, Dauphin)

11 minutes

16 January 2022

Historic buildings lost in 2021: International Harvester Building (1735 Pacific Avenue, Brandon), Beveridge Block (802 Main Street, Winnipeg), Ferndale Apartments (486 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg), Erskine Presbyterian Church (Killarney, RM of Killarney-Turtle Mountain), Evangelical Lutheran Church (Municipality of West Interlake), Cargill Grain Elevator (Pacific Avenue, Brandon), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Homewood, RM of Dufferin), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Lowe Farm, RM of Morris), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Mentmore, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Niverville), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Pierson, Municipality of Two Borders), Paterson Grain Elevator (Pierson, Municipality of Two Borders), National Grain Elevator (Winnipegosis, RM of Mossey River), Red House (Russell, Municipality of Russell-Binscarth), Brunkild Hotel (Brunkild, RM of Macdonald)

9 minutes

9 January 2022

Memorable Manitobans of 2021

11 minutes

2 January 2022

Chemistry and Physics Building (55 Chancellors Circle, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

19 December 2021

Updates on previously discussed topics: Stop butts at Hartney and 17 Wing, more on Father Svoboda’s gyrocopter, Solo stores in Winnipeg neighbourhoods, demolition of Brandon’s Old Red Barn, restoration of Giorgio Barone’s Hi Neighbour Sam statue, winter vault in Deloraine cemetery, demolition of the Fort Garry Legion building, funds for restoration of Kennedy House, demolition of Mallard Lodge

13 minutes

12 December 2021

Grey Owl’s Cabin (Riding Mountain National Park)

10 minutes

5 December 2021

Elephant Brand Fertilizer Elevator (Sixth Street, Hamiota, Municipality of Hamiota)

9 minutes

28 November 2021

Camp Brandon Stop Butt (RM of Cornwallis) and other butts at Paulson, Dauphin, and Souris

9 minutes

21 November 2021

Methodical place naming in Manitoba: Winnipeg's streets named alphabetically with women's names, alphabetical railway stations west of Portage la Prairie, and Winnipeg's short-lived experiment with street numbers

11 minutes

14 November 2021

Armouries in Manitoba: Brandon (1116 Victoria Avenue, Brandon), Dauphin (309 Main Street North, Dauphin), Minnedosa (First Avenue SW, Minnedosa), Minto (969 St. Matthews Avenue, Winnipeg), Portage la Prairie (143 Second Street NE, Portage la Prairie), Strachan/McGregor (551 Machray Avenue, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

7 November 2021

Excelsior Macaroni Factory / Constant Macaroni Factory (254 Dumoulin Street, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

31 October 2021

Canada's first helicopter designed and built by three brothers at Homewood and a gyrocopter flown by an aging Catholic priest

11 minutes

24 October 2021

Metro Meat and other corner stores in Winnipeg

10 minutes

17 October 2021

CPR North Transcona Grain Elevator / Parrish & Heimbecker Grain Elevator (70 Roderick Street, RM of Springfield)

12 minutes

10 October 2021

Moggey Cabin (Municipality of West Interlake)

10 minutes

3 October 2021

The Red Barn at the Brandon Research and Development Centre (Grand Valley Road, Brandon)

10 minutes

26 September 2021

Giorgio “George” Barone (1916-1992), Alpine Archie (Mountainview Drive, McCreary, Municipality of McCreary), and Mount Agassiz Ski Resort (Riding Mountain National Park)

10 minutes

19 September 2021

Harrison Flour Mill (Holmfield, Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain), 2021 recipients of Lieutenant Governor's Awards for Historical Preservation and Promotion, Sumka Brothers market garden store (36 Sumka Road, Winnipeg), digitized copies of The Prairie Garden (1937-1980)

11 minutes

12 September 2021

Ghost towns of Manitoba: Pope (Municipality of Hamiota) and more

9 minutes

5 September 2021

Hoctor Railway Bake Oven (Hoctor Siding, RM of Reynolds)

9 minutes

29 August 2021

Measuring locations of historic sites by GPS, Google Earth, and maps

9 minutes

22 August 2021

Tunnels under Winnipeg

10 minutes

15 August 2021

Melita Winter Vault (Municipality of Two Borders), St. Mary’s Winter Vault (506 Osborne Street, Winnipeg), and Transcona Winter Vault (Dugald Road, RM of Springfield)

10 minutes

8 August 2021

An aborted adventure in northern Manitoba and miscellaneous updates: Birtle Indian Residential School (Birtle, Municipality of Prairie View), Transcona Cordite Plant (RM of Springfield), SS Alpha Shipwreck (RM of Victoria), St. Vladimir’s College for Boys (Roblin, Municipality of Roblin), Delta Drive-In Theatre (Saskatchewan Avenue West, Portage la Prairie), Sargenia Terraces (Municipality of Roblin), Fallout Reporting Posts, International Harvester Building (Brandon), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Homewood, RM of Dufferin), Roseisle Hutterite Cemetery (RM of Thompson)

The MHS list of top-10 endangered structures for 2021

10 minutes

1 August 2021

Aynsley Street and the history in street names of Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, and Brandon

10 minutes

25 July 2021

CKX Radio Building (220 Eighth Street, Brandon)

12 minutes

18 July 2021

Leslie Park Monument (Thatcher Drive, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

11 July 2021

Whitewater Municipal Office (Minto, RM of Grassland)

10 minutes

4 July 2021

Margaret McWilliams Awards and the Hecla Island Ferry (Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park)

12 minutes

27 June 2021

George Atkinson, Benjamin Hales and their wandering collection of taxidermic animals

10 minutes

20 June 2021

Roseisle Hutterite Cemetery (RM of Thompson)

9 minutes

13 June 2021

Elkhorn Indian Residential School Cemetery (Elkhorn, RM of Wallace-Woodworth), Brandon Old Indian Residential School Cemetery (Brandon), Brandon Indian Residential School Cemetery (RM of Cornwallis)

A Cup of Cold Water: Alfred Kirkness and the Brandon Residential School Cemeteries by Anne Lindsay, Clare Cook, and David Cuthbert, Manitoba History, Number 78, Summer 2015

MA thesis: “Investigation of unmarked graves and burial grounds at the Brandon Indian Residential School” by Katherine Nichols (Anthropology, University of Manitoba, 2015)

10 minutes

6 June 2021

Pointe du Bois Forestry Cabin (Pointe du Bois, Whiteshell Provincial Park)

10 minutes

30 May 2021

Lemiez Sculpture Garden (RM of Grahamdale)

9 minutes

23 May 2021

Elphinstone Ranch (RM of Yellowhead)

10 minutes

16 May 2021

Commemorative stones in Brandon's Coronation Park

12 minutes

9 May 2021

Brabazon Saunders, the Winnipeg Photo Company, and early views of southwestern Manitoba towns

10 minutes

2 May 2021

Mini golf and the Lord's Day Act

12 minutes

25 April 2021

Haynes Chicken Shack (257 Lulu Street, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

18 April 2021

Arthur Thibaudeau, fake globetrotter in Manitoba

11 minutes

11 April 2021

Monument for Spruce Hills Consolidated School (RM of Victoria) and abandoned telegraph lines

10 minutes

4 April 2021

Historic parking lots of Winnipeg’s Broadway: Fort Garry Court (160 Main), Hudson’s Bay Company Tennis Club (235 Broadway), Broadway Court (251 Broadway), Buckingham Apartments (323 Broadway), Bank of Montreal Tennis Club (333 Broadway), Memorial Park (455 Broadway), Devon Court (376 Broadway), Donalda Grocery (304 Broadway), Canadian National Railway Tennis Club (230 Broadway), Upper Fort Garry Gate Service Station (142 Broadway)

10 minutes

28 March 2021

Long-term history of water quality in Killarney Lake

10 minutes

21 March 2021

Updates on previously discussed topics: blacksmith shops; demolition of Gordon House (Winnipeg), International Harvester Building (Brandon), grain elevators (Pierson), grain elevator (Winnipegosis); Red River Cereal; immigration shed at Fort Dufferin (Emerson-Franklin); nominees for 2020 Margaret McWilliams awards

11 minutes

14 March 2021

Historical lapel pins for places and events in Manitoba

11 minutes

7 March 2021

Xanthoria, a bird-poop-loving lichen that grows on old concrete structures around Manitoba

10 minutes

28 February 2021

Walking tours of early hotels in downtown Winnipeg: Woodbine Hotel (466 Main Street), Garrick Hotel (287 Garry Street), Winnipeg Hotel (214 Main Street), Vendome Hotel (308 Fort Street), Mount Royal Hotel (186 Higgins Avenue), Sutherland Hotel (785 Main Street), Northern Hotel (826 Main Street)

9 minutes

21 February 2021

Donut shops in Winnipeg

10 minutes

14 February 2021

The Margaret McWilliams Awards for excellence in writing about Manitoba history

9 minutes

7 February 2021

The deconstruction of 57 Carlton Street as an alternative to demolition

10 minutes

31 January 2021

Fort Osborne Barracks / Kapyong Barracks (Kenaston Boulevard, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

24 January 2021

How to do research on the history of your house

10 minutes

17 January 2021

Chinese restaurants in rural Manitoba: Paris Cafe (Newdale) and Rex Cafe (Carberry)

11 minutes

10 January 2021

Old Exhibition Grounds (Winnipeg)

11 minutes

3 January 2021

The death of 12 rural newspapers hastened by the pandemic (and their year of founding): Deloraine Times & Star (1887), Souris Plaindealer (1892), Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times (1893), Carman Valley Leader (1898), Reston Recorder (1905), Morden Times (1911), Melita New Era (1915), Red River Valley Echo (1941), Winkler Times (1958), Interlake Spectator (1972), Selkirk Journal (1985), and Prairie Farmer (2014)

10 minutes

20 December 2020

Ralph Connor Coach House (54 West Gate, Winnipeg), Rowley Coach House (124 Harrow Street, Winnipeg), Dorchester Coach House

10 minutes

13 December 2020

Drones for historical research, including one weighing exactly 249 grams

11 minutes

6 December 2020

Shantz Immigration Sheds (RM of Hanover) and Scandinavia Immigration Hall (Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson)

10 minutes

29 November 2020

Memorable Manitobans: Harvey Kavaner and Red River Cereal, Florence McGregor and Kleerex, Ginger Snook and the Winnipeg city council, and swindler Lord Gordon Gordon, and criteria for adding more

11 minutes

22 November 2020

Roblin City (Churchill)

10 minutes

15 November 2020

L9 Building / Institute of Arctic Ecophysiology Building (Amundsen Road, Churchill)

11 minutes

8 November 2020

Canadian National Railway Station (130 Fisher Avenue E, Portage la Prairie) and the rise and fall of inter-city bus transportation in Manitoba

10 minutes

1 November 2020

The abandoned waterways of Winnipeg: Colony Creek, Browns Creek, McLeod Creek, and Horseshoe Pond

12 minutes

25 October 2020

Post offices in Manitoba, past and present, including the oldest remaining building in Portage la Prairie, and the oldest operating post office in St. Boniface

13 minutes

18 October 2020

The Manitoba Memories Centre: repurposing the soon-to-be-abandoned Hudson's Bay Company store in downtown Winnipeg

12 minutes

11 October 2020

Empty spaces along Brandon’s historic Princess Avenue, former sites of Beaubier Hotel, Brandon City Hall, Brandon Hotel, and Prince Edward Hotel

9 minutes

4 October 2020

Abandoned water wells in Manitoba

9 minutes

27 September 2020

A 97-year-old car crosses a 101-year-old bridge, and The Manitoba Heritage Summit 2020

10 minutes

20 September 2020

Five recipients of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion awarded in 2020.

11 minutes

13 September 2020

Shipwrecks: Ithaca (northern Manitoba), Port Nelson dredge (northern Manitoba), Port Nelson lighters (northern Manitoba), Winnitoba (Red River), Suzanne E (Lake Winnipeg), and lots more boats that operated in Manitoba through the years

11 minutes

6 September 2020

The last installment of “Remnants of Early Manitoba” on places with an Indigenous connection: Bannock Point Petroforms (Whiteshell Provincial Park), Clay Banks Bison Jump (Municipality of Cartwright-Roblin), Flee Island Entrenchments (RM of Portage la Prairie), Star Mound (Municipality of Louise), Standing Stone Burial Rock (Arrow River, Municipality of Prairie View), Betsey Ramsay Gravesite (Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton), Brandon House Tent Circles (RM of Cornwallis)

9 minutes

30 August 2020

Kiewel Brewery Building (690 St. Joseph Street, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

23 August 2020

Old-school local manufacturing at blacksmith shops: Cartwright Blacksmith Shop (North Railway Street, Cartwright, Municipality of Cartwright-Roblin), Warkentin Blacksmith Shop (RM of St. Francois Xavier), J. R. Amos Blacksmith Shop (101 Second Street, Waskada, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada), Old Stone Blacksmith Shop (Aspen Street, Oak Lake, RM of Sifton)

8 minutes

16 August 2020

Changing Manitoba town names

10 minutes

9 August 2020

Updates on previously discussed sites: Deleau Hoppers, Railway Tie House, Fallout Monitoring Posts, Scott Memorial Hall, Roseland Curling Rink, Churchill Port Staff House / Television Station CHGH, Old Safeway Stores, Tom Naylor's Skylark, McLaren Stone Outhouse, Maison St. Joseph Orphanage for Boys, Little Mountain School, La Salle Grain Elevator

14 minutes

2 August 2020

An astronomy laboratory buried deep under the Central Normal School in Winnipeg

11 minutes

26 July 2020

Early orphanages of Manitoba

11 minutes

19 July 2020

Remnants of Early Manitoba: natural forests, grasslands, and wetlands of southern Manitoba

10 minutes

12 July 2020

Place names that commemorate disreputable people

11 minutes

5 July 2020

For Canada Historic Places Day, a list of Manitoba’s top-10 endangered structures for 2020

12 minutes

28 June 2020

For the fifth anniversary of Abandoned Manitoba: my favourite ten sites

15 minutes

21 June 2020

McLaren Stone Outhouse (RM of Argyle)

10 minutes

14 June 2020

Winnipeg buildings with an automotive past: Maw Block (280 William Avenue), Maw Garage (111 Princess Street), McLaughlin Carriage Building (206-210 Princess Street), Breen Motor Company Building (245 Main Street), Robert Fletcher Building (1181 Portage Avenue), and CBC Building (543 Portage Avenue)

11 minutes

7 June 2020

Historic parking lots of Main Street in Winnipeg: Fort Garry Court (160 Main), Empire Hotel (171 Main), Dominion Hotel (220 Main), Consolidated Motors Building (233 Main), McIntyre Block (416 Main), and Dominion Bank Building (440 Main)

12 minutes

31 May 2020

Remnants of Early Manitoba: homes over 150 years old

13 minutes

24 May 2020

Grottos at the Mariaggi Hotel (231 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg) and Camp Morton (RM of Gimli)

12 minutes

17 May 2020

Tom Naylor’s Skylark (Delta, RM of Portage la Prairie)

10 minutes

10 May 2020

Manitoba Bricks and Blocks

11 minutes

3 May 2020

The architectural legacy of Alexander Melville: fire halls and telephone exchange buildings with a couple of examples being: Fire Hall No. 8 (325 Talbot Avenue, Winnipeg) and Emerson Telephone Exchange Building (15 Main Street, Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

10 minutes

26 April 2020

Elmer the Safety Elephant

10 minutes

19 April 2020

Sundance Town Site (Northern Manitoba)

10 minutes

12 April 2020

Dating those old family photos using the Manitoba Photographers List

9 minutes

5 April 2020

The Safeway (and Piggly Wiggly) invasion of Manitoba in 1929

11 minutes

29 March 2020

Fanning Block / Union Bank Building / Royal Bank Building (Main Street, Newdale, Municipality of Harrison Park)

8 minutes

22 March 2020

Temperance and Prohibition in Manitoba: 1892 Referendum, 1902 Referendum, 1916 Referendum, and 1923 Referendum

9 minutes

15 March 2020

Remnants of Early Manitoba: Nine churches from the 1870s and earlier: St. Andrews-on-the-Red Anglican Church (1845-1849), St. Peter Dynevor Anglican Church (1853-1854), Kildonan Presbyterian Church (1854), Old St. James Anglican Church (1853-1855), St. Anne’s Anglican Church (1859), St. Clement’s (Mapleton) Anglican Church (1860-1861), Christ Church Anglican (1868-1870), Little Britain Presbyterian Church (1872-1874), and St. Luke’s Anglican Church (1876).

11 minutes

8 March 2020

Port Staff House / Television Station CHGH (Polar Bear Honor Street, Churchill)

12 minutes

1 March 2020

Nickel House (Municipality of Prairie View)

11 minutes

23 February 2020

Summerville Curling Rink (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)

11 minutes

16 February 2020

Pineview Memorial Crematorium (Waverley Street, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

9 February 2020

Griswold Skating Rink (Griswold, RM of Sifton)

12 minutes

2 February 2020

The launch of Prairie History magazine with an article about the former Claybank Brick Plant in southern Saskatchewan

14 minutes

26 January 2020

Winnipeg's changing Exchange District: Manitoba College of Pharmacy Building (422 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg) and Scott Memorial Orange Hall (216 Princess Street, Winnipeg)

16 minutes

19 January 2020

Remnants of Early Manitoba in the Fur Trade: Prince of Wales Fort (Churchill), St. Andrews Rectory (RM of St. Andrews), York Factory Depot Building (Northern Manitoba), Archway Warehouse (Norway House), Lower Fort Garry (RM of St. Andrews), Upper Fort Garry Gate (130 Main Street, Winnipeg)

12 minutes

12 January 2020

Criddle-Vane Homestead (Aweme, Municipality of Glenboro-South Cypress)

13 minutes

5 January 2020

Pine to Palm Highway Plaque (Pembina Highway, Winnipeg)

13 minutes

29 December 2019

Fargey’s General Store (La Riviere, Municipality of Pembina)

13 minutes

22 December 2019

Victoria Court (471 William Avenue, Winnipeg)

13 minutes

15 December 2019

Donald Bain’s kennel for curly-coated retrievers at Portage la Prairie

11 minutes

8 December 2019

Bound records of the Manitoba Free Press fished out of dumpsters

15 minutes

1 December 2019

The now-abandoned practice of charivari

10 minutes

24 November 2019

Principal Meridian Cairn (RM of St. Francois Xavier)

11 minutes

17 November 2019

International Harvester Building / Public Cold Storage Building (1735 Pacific Avenue, Brandon)

10 minutes

10 November 2019

Swastikas in three Manitoba buildings: Tache Hall, Pointe du Bois Powerhouse, and a balloon annex at an undisclosed location

11 minutes

3 November 2019

Dene Village and Akudlik (Churchill)

9 minutes

27 October 2019

Mariapolis Collegiate (Mariapolis, Municipality of Lorne)

9 minutes

20 October 2019

Tree Planting Car at the Sandilands Forest Discovery Centre (RM of Reynolds)

11 minutes

13 October 2019

Roblin Creamery Building (First Street NW, Roblin, Municipality of Roblin)

9 minutes

6 October 2019

Quarry Superintendent’s House (Garson, RM of Brokenhead)

11 minutes

29 September 2019

JG3 and GH3 Fallout Monitoring Posts in Northern Manitoba

10 minutes

22 September 2019

Manitoba’s now-abandoned election method: Proportional Voting

10 minutes

15 September 2019

Honey Wagon Shack (Rosser Avenue East, Brandon)

10 minutes

8 September 2019

Boyd Building (384 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

1 September 2019

Meighen House (131 Dufferin Avenue East, Portage la Prairie)

11 minutes

25 August 2019

Sargenia Terraces (Municipality of Roblin)

10 minutes

18 August 2019

A home southeast of Portage la Prairie made from wood salvaged from an abandoned Midland Railway line

12 minutes

11 August 2019

Deleau Hopper Cars (RM of Sifton)

12 minutes

4 August 2019

What to do with those family photos, documents, albums, scrapbooks, and more

9 minutes

28 July 2019

The fall of Good Harbour Fish Station

10 minutes

21 July 2019

Good Harbour Fish Station (Northern Manitoba)

12 minutes

14 July 2019

Inwood Lime Quarry (RM of Armstrong)

10 minutes

7 July 2019

A list of Manitoba’s top-10 endangered structures for 2019

15 minutes

30 June 2019

Smokey’s Tree Stump (Sandilands Provincial Forest, RM of Reynolds)

12 minutes

23 June 2019

Manitoba’s former railway stations (see a list of surviving stations here)

14 minutes

16 June 2019

A continuation of last week’s conversation on activities in 1970 to commemorate Manitoba's 100th birthday

9 minutes

9 June 2019

Manitoba’s 100th birthday celebrations in 1970

11 minutes

2 June 2019

2019 recipients of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion

11 minutes

26 May 2019

Updates on previously discussed sites: Atkinson House, Valley River Suspension Bridge, Grand Trunk Pump House, Eighth Street Bridge, Davidson House, Flax Fibre Warehouses, Demonstration Farmhouse, North Kildonan Municipal Hall, Assiniboine River Needle Dam, Modern Dairy Building, AECL Underground Research Lab

11 minutes

19 May 2019

Trump Siding and Trump Oil Refinery (RM of Morris)

11 minutes

12 May 2019

A conversation with National Geographic photographer Pete Ryan on his work with abandoned buildings in prairie Canada

10 minutes

5 May 2019

Updates on previously discussed sites: Birtle Residential School, Elva Grain Elevator, Lang House, Port Nelson, HMCS Churchill

9 minutes

28 April 2019

AECL Underground Research Laboratory (RM of Lac du Bonnet)

11 minutes

21 April 2019

Gordon House (514 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

14 April 2019

Eleanor Kidd Park and Gardens (Assiniboine River, Brandon)

10 minutes

7 April 2019

Consolidated schools: Wingham Consolidated School (RM of Grey), Cypress River Consolidated School (Cypress River, RM of Victoria), Amaranth School (Amaranth, RM of Alonsa)

12 minutes

31 March 2019

Ens Heritage Housebarn (Reinland, RM of Stanley), Friesen Housebarn Interpretive Centre (Neubergthal, RM of Rhineland), Carpenter Housebarn (RM of St. Francois Xavier)

9 minutes

24 March 2019

Coal sheds: Holmfield (Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain), Kane (RM of Morris), Tilston (Municipality of Two Borders), Winnipegosis (RM of Mossey River)

8 minutes

17 March 2019

Trans-Canada Highway Monument (Eastern Manitoba)

9 minutes

10 March 2019

First Baptist Church (1037 Lorne Avenue, Brandon)

11 minutes

3 March 2019

Nanton Gatehouse (229 Roslyn Road, Winnipeg)

14 minutes

24 February 2019

Cowan School Teacherage (RM of Mountain)

12 minutes

17 February 2019

Royal Hotel / 580 Hotel (First Avenue, Binscarth, Municipality of Russell-Binscarth)

11 minutes

10 February 2019

Emerson Customs Building (Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

11 minutes

3 February 2019

Red River Frame buildings and Henderson House (St. Norbert Provincial Heritage Park)

10 minutes

27 January 2019

St. James Fire Hall (200 Berry Street, Winnipeg)

12 minutes

20 January 2019

Starbuck Cemetery (Starbuck, RM of Macdonald), Wheatfield Burial Site (RM of Yellowhead), Shellmouth Pioneers Cemetery (RM of Riding Mountain West), Ostman Grave (RM of Stuartburn), Brandon Indian Residential School Cemetery (RM of Cornwallis)

11 minutes

13 January 2019

Central Judicial District Gaol (20 Third Street SE, Portage la Prairie)

11 minutes

6 January 2019

Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion

11 minutes

30 December 2018

Kanuchuan Generating Station (Kanuchuan River, Northern Manitoba)

12 minutes

23 December 2018

Medicine Rock Cafe (St. Francois Xavier, RM of St. Francois Xavier)

10 minutes

16 December 2018

Kenosewun Centre (Lockport, RM of St. Clements)

7 minutes

9 December 2018

Salvation Army Citadel (221 Rupert Avenue, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

2 December 2018

McKinley School No. 1462 (RM of Mountain) and Manitoba’s Rural School Designs
Other surviving Eatons plan schools: Balsam Bay, Belses, Bluebell, Brandon Hills, Cowan, Hillview, Loon Lake, Meleb, Oak Point, Pine Valley, St. Vincent de Paul

9 minutes

25 November 2018

Undelivered letters in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives

11 minutes

18 November 2018

Manitoba House (Kinosota, RM of Alonsa)

9 minutes

11 November 2018

MHS war memorials project (with Darryl Toews)

17 minutes

4 November 2018

Hoffman Family Grain Elevator and Mill (RM of Macdonald)

13 minutes

28 October 2018

Sasaginnigak Fire Tower (Sasaginnigak Lake, Atikaki Provincial Park), Woodridge Fire Tower (Woodridge, Woodridge Provincial Park)

13 minutes

21 October 2018

Launching this week, the book More Abandoned Manitoba

11 minutes

14 October 2018

Hodgson Legion Hall (Hodgson, RM of Fisher)

11 minutes

7 October 2018

St. Charles Hotel (235 Notre Dame Avenue), Rubin Block (270 Morley), St. James Hotel (1719 Portage Avenue), and Osborne Village Inn (160 Osborne Street)

11 minutes

30 September 2018

Curry Brothers Building (Municipality of Pembina)

9 minutes

23 September 2018

Grey Nuns’ Convent (St. Francois Xavier, RM of St. Francois Xavier)

9 minutes

16 September 2018

Oxbow Woods (RM of Portage la Prairie)

9 minutes

9 September 2018

Asessippi Townsite (RM of Riding Mountain West)

10 minutes

2 September 2018

Summer Edition - Downtown Winnipeg

9 minutes

26 August 2018

Summer Edition - The Narrows

8 minutes

19 August 2018

Summer Edition - Morden

9 minutes

12 August 2018

Summer Edition - Boreal Shores Art Tour

9 minutes

5 August 2018

Summer Edition - Melita

11 minutes

29 July 2018

Summer Edition - Dauphin

9 minutes

22 July 2018

Summer Edition - Austin

9 minutes

15 July 2018

Summer Edition - Churchill

8 minutes

1 July 2018

On the road to western Manitoba

16 minutes

3 June 2018

Van Horne Farm / Searle Farm (RM of St. Clements)

12 minutes

6 May 2018

Modern Dairy Building (738 St. Joseph Street, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

8 April 2018

Manitoba Power Commission Powerhouse (Minnedosa) / Maps of rural electrification

12 minutes

4 March 2018

St. Boniface Normal School (210 rue Masson, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

4 February 2018

Assiniboine River Needle Dam (Assiniboine River, RM of Portage la Prairie)

11 minutes

7 January 2018

Winnipeg Central Dump / Saskatchewan Avenue Dump / “Garbage Hill” / Westview Park (Winnipeg) and Mixed Garbage and Refuse Destructor / Winnipeg Incinerator / Maude Street Incinerator (Henry Avenue, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

3 December 2017

Brandon House No. 1 (Municipality of Glenboro-South Cypress)

9 minutes

5 November 2017

St. Boniface Water Tower (552 Plinguet Street, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

1 October 2017

Circus Drive-In Theatre / Delta Drive-In Theatre (Saskatchewan Avenue West, Portage la Prairie)

10 minutes

24 September 2017

This Old Barn

13 minutes

17 September 2017

This Old Elevator

14 minutes

10 September 2017

British-American Cement Plant (Sturgeon Road, RM of Rosser)

12 minutes

3 September 2017

Campbell Soup Plant (Fifteenth Street NW, Portage la Prairie)

8 minutes

27 August 2017

Caddy Lake Emergency Airfield (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

11 minutes

20 August 2017

Canadian Pacific Railway Bergen Cutoff Bridge (Red River, Winnipeg)

12 minutes

13 August 2017

Salt Plains Raceway (Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

9 minutes

6 August 2017

RCAF Station Bird (Fox Lake Cree Nation)

10 minutes

30 July 2017

York Factory Depot Building (Hayes River, Northern Manitoba)

12 minutes

23 July 2017

Lido Plage Resort (RM of Cartier), Holmfield Swimming Hole (Long River, Holmfield, RM of Killarney-Turtle Mountain)

8 minutes

16 July 2017

North Kildonan Municipal Hall (1400 Henderson Highway, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

9 July 2017

Misericordia General Hospital (20 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

2 July 2017

Pine Falls Paper Mill (Powerview-Pine Falls)

11 minutes

25 June 2017

Davidson Ranch / Manitoba Dairy Farms (Marchand, RM of La Broquerie), Carter Farm Silo (RM of La Broquerie), and Schau Farm Silos (RM of La Broquerie)

12 minutes

18 June 2017

Palace Theatre (501 Selkirk Avenue, Winnipeg)

7 minutes

11 June 2017

Canadian National Railway Water Tower / Prisoner-of-War Camp (RM of Roland)

9 minutes

4 June 2017

Grand Rapids Tramway (Grand Rapids, Northern Manitoba)

8 minutes

28 May 2017

Carnegie Library / City of Winnipeg Archives (380 William Avenue, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

21 May 2017

Conestoga Campsites (1341 St. Anne's Road, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

14 May 2017

Crabby Steve’s Dance Hall (RM of Armstrong)

8 minutes

7 May 2017

Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator / Private Grain Elevator (Tyndall, RM of Brokenhead)

11 minutes

30 April 2017

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Bridge (Assiniboine River, Brandon) and grain elevators on the CNR Wawanesa Subdivision: United Grain Growers Grain Elevator (Hilton, RM of Prairie Lakes), Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Wawanesa, Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa), and Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator “B” (Rounthwaite, Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa)

18 minutes

23 April 2017

Demonstration Farm House (44 Water Street, Killarney, RM of Killarney-Turtle Mountain)

13 minutes

15 April 2017

Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children / Rehabilitation Centre for Children (611-633 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg)

16 minutes

9 April 2017

Captain William Kennedy House (417 River Road, RM of St. Andrews)

12 minutes

2 April 2017

Manitoba 1912 License Plate Project

14 minutes

26 March 2017

Red River / Netley-Libau Marsh (RM of St. Clements)

12 minutes

19 March 2017

Wasyl Negrych Pioneer Homestead (Municipality of Gilbert Plains)

12 minutes

12 March 2017

St. Peter Dynevor Anglican Rectory / Dynevor Indian Hospital / St. John’s Cathedral Boys’ School (1147 Breezy Point Road, RM of St. Andrews)

12 minutes

5 March 2017

Reginald Buller Monument (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)

17 minutes

26 February 2017

Manitoba Sugar Company Plant (555 Hervo Street, Winnipeg)

15 minutes

19 February 2017

Gilbert Plains Beef Ring Building (Municipality of Gilbert Plains)

9 minutes

12 February 2017

Grainfields School No. 2186 (Municipality of Roblin)

12 minutes

5 February 2017

Langtry Fox Farm Tower (RM of Rockwood) / Rempel Janz Fox Barn (RM of Hanover) / Emerson Fox Barn (Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

10 minutes

29 January 2017

Duck Factory No. 1 Building (Oak Hammock Marsh, RM of Rockwood)

9 minutes

22 January 2017

Chapman Museum (Municipality of Riverdale)

9 minutes

15 January 2017

Masonic Temple / Mother Tucker’s Restaurant (335 Donald Street, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

8 January 2017

Sovereen Eight-sided Log House (Swan River)

9 minutes

31 December 2016

Winnipeg Canoe Club (47 Dunkirk Drive, Winnipeg)

11 minutes

24 December 2016

Flax Fibre Warehouses (North Railway Street, Killarney, RM of Killarney-Turtle Mountain)

8 minutes

18 December 2016

Updates on a few sites from the past 18 months (Terry Macleod’s retirement)

11 December 2016

J. R. Watkins Company Building (90 Annabella Street, Winnipeg)

10 minutes

4 December 2016

Brookeville Granite Quarry (East Braintree, RM of Reynolds)

11 minutes

27 November 2016

Ivan Franko Hall (Lorne Hill Road, RM of Springfield)

10 minutes

20 November 2016

Biffie Burn Monument (Bowsman, Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman)

7 minutes

13 November 2016

Emerson CPR Station (Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

9 minutes

6 November 2016

The town of Pointe du Bois (Whiteshell Provincial Park)

10 minutes

30 October 2016

Scallion House and Granary (RM of Wallace-Woodworth)

9 minutes

23 October 2016

St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery (Rofton, RM of Stuartburn)

12 minutes

16 October 2016

Manitoba Industrial Farm / Prison Farm (RM of Reynolds)

12 minutes

9 October 2016

Davidson House (344 Main Street East, Neepawa)

6 minutes

2 October 2016

Elie Strawboard Plant (Elie, RM of Cartier)

8 minutes

25 September 2016

Swistun Buddas (RM of Harrison Park)

13 minutes

18 September 2016

Brookdale Grain Warehouse (Brookdale, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)

7 minutes

11 September 2016

Fairford Railway Bridge (RM of Grahamdale)

8 minutes

4 September 2016

Eighth Street Bridge (Brandon)

9 minutes

28 August 2016

Camp Hughes (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)

9 minutes

21 August 2016

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Dam and Pump House (Rivers, Municipality of Riverdale)

9 minutes

14 August 2016

Fort Ellice trails: Neepawa, RM of Wallace-Woodworth, and Birtle

9 minutes

7 August 2016

Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Quadra, Municipality of Prairie View)

10 minutes

31 July 2016

Canada Cement Plant (McGillivray Boulevard, Winnipeg)

9 minutes

24 July 2016

Totogan Town Site (Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

10 minutes

17 July 2016

Valley River Suspension Bridge (RM of Dauphin)

9 minutes

10 July 2016

Redemptorist Fathers College / St. Vladimir’s College (Roblin, Municipality of Roblin)

8 minutes

3 July 2016

HMCS Churchill / CFS Churchill / Churchill Naval Base (Churchill)

8 minutes

26 June 2016

Lyons House (Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)

8 minutes

19 June 2016

A. E. McKenzie Building (30 Ninth Street, Brandon)

8 minutes

12 June 2016

Kirkjubol Cemetery (Hecla-Grindstone Provincial Park)

8 minutes

5 June 2016

Valleyview Building (Brandon Mental Health Centre, First Street, Brandon)

8 minutes

29 May 2016

Northern Woods and Water Route Monument (RM of Rosser)

7 minutes

22 May 2016

Mapping Manitoba’s historic sites, part 2

9 minutes

15 May 2016

Mapping Manitoba’s historic sites, part 1

9 minutes

8 May 2016

Atkinson House (RM of Hamiota)

7 minutes

1 May 2016

Hartney Town Hall (220 West Railway Street, Hartney, Municipality of Grassland)

7 minutes

24 April 2016

Holy Eucharist Ukrainian Catholic Church (Sclater, RM of Mountain)

6 minutes

17 April 2016

Bradley Gravesite (Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

8 minutes

10 April 2016

La Riviere Ski Slopes (La Riviere, RM of Pembina)

7 minutes

3 April 2016

Leacock House “The Castle” (Birtle, Municipality of Prairie View)

9 minutes

27 March 2016

Bender Hamlet (RM of Armstrong)

7 minutes

20 March 2016

SS Alpha Shipwreck (RM of Victoria)

7 minutes

13 March 2016

Scheppers Agricultural College / Sacred Heart College (Swan Lake, Municipality of Lorne)

8 minutes

6 March 2016

Flee Island Entrenchments (RM of Portage la Prairie)

8 minutes

28 February 2016

Loyal Orange Lodge (Graysville, RM of Dufferin)

8 minutes

21 February 2016

Manitoba College of Pharmacy Building (422 Notre Dame Avenue, Winnipeg)

6 minutes

14 February 2016

Fort Daer (Pembina, North Dakota)

7 minutes

7 February 2016

Defence Industries Limited Cordite Plant / Transcona Cordite Plant (RM of Springfield)

8 minutes

31 January 2016

Fort Ellice (RM of Ellice-Archie)

8 minutes

24 January 2016

Harrison Mill and Grain Elevators (Holmfield, Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain)

7 minutes

17 January 2016

Canadian Pacific Railway Engine House (Reston, RM of Pipestone)

5 minutes

10 January 2016

Elma Pool Hall and Residence (Elma, RM of Whitemouth)

7 minutes

3 January 2016

Port Nelson (Hudson Bay, Northern Manitoba)

11 minutes

20 December 2015

Kilkenny General Store (Broomhill, Municipality of Two Borders)

8 minutes

13 December 2015

Star Mound / Star Mound School No. 413 (Municipality of Louise)

6 minutes

6 December 2015

Mallard Lodge / Delta Marsh Field Station (RM of Portage la Prairie)

9 minutes

29 November 2015

Rapid City School No. 124 (Rapid City, RM of Oakview)

6 minutes

22 November 2015

Manitoba Glass Company Site (Beausejour)

7 minutes

15 November 2015

Carnegie Monument (Municipality of Riverdale)

6 minutes

8 November 2015

Betsey Ramsay Grave (Municipality of Bifrost-Riverton)

7 minutes

1 November 2015

Copley Anglican Church and Cemetery (Municipality of Two Borders)

7 minutes

25 October 2015

Clay Banks Bison Jump (Municipality of Cartwright-Roblin)

7 minutes

18 October 2015

Vulcan Iron Works (105 Maple Street North, Winnipeg)

6 minutes

11 October 2015

Ninette Sanatorium (Ninette, RM of Prairie Lakes)

6 minutes

4 October 2015

Lang House (RM of Pembina)

6 minutes

27 September 2015

Old Deloraine Bank Vault (Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester)

6 minutes

20 September 2015

Little Saskatchewan River Generating Station / Hydroelectric Power Dam (RM of Whitehead)

5 minutes

13 September 2015

Lake of the Woods Grain Elevator (Elva, RM of Two Borders)

6 minutes

6 September 2015

Sidney Brickworks (Sidney, RM of North Norfolk)

8 minutes

30 August 2015

York Lodge / Kirchhoffer Lodge / The Chimney (Delta Marsh, RM of Portage la Prairie)

7 minutes

23 August 2015

Gervais Bowstring Arch Bridge (RM of Portage la Prairie)

6 minutes

16 August 2015

Rosehill Limestone Quarry and Kilns (RM of Siglunes)

7 minutes

9 August 2015

Telecommunications Repeater Station (RM of Morris)

7 minutes

2 August 2015

Matchettville School No. 1342 (Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne)

7 minutes

26 July 2015

McArdle Salt Works (near Lake Winnipegosis)

7 minutes

19 July 2015

No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School (Paulson, RM of Dauphin)

7 minutes

12 July 2015

Lakeside Fresh Air Camp for Children (RM of Gimli)

11 minutes

5 July 2015

Union Stockyards (Marion Street, Winnipeg)

8 minutes

28 June 2015

Birtle Indian Residential School (Birtle, Municipality of Prairie View)

7 minutes

See also:

Manitoba Business: CBC Manitoba

Sources:

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 September 2024

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