This cairn on the road between Brandon and CFB Shilo, in the Rural Municipality of Cornwallis, was erected on 13 July 1968 by members of the Grand Valley School Memorial Society in memory of pioneers who came by oxcart and steamboat to settle in this area and built the town of Grand Valley. The town’s future was doomed by two disastrous river floods, in 1881 and 1882, and the choice of nearby Brandon as divisional point for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Grand Valley Cairn (August 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.85716, W99.89459
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Grand Valley, A Boom Town 1878-1885 by Isabelle B. Heeney
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 24, Number 4, Summer 1979Historic Sites of Manitoba: Grand Valley School No. 206 (RM of Cornwallis)
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 January 2021
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