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The
Pivotal Events Concept...
A
community's heritage can be expressed through a careful analysis
of Places, People and Events. The
Historic
Resources Branch has developed Pivotal Events Projects as one component
of the three core collections that, along with Special Places
and Notable People, will help communties
protect and use their heritage resources to best advantage.
With
Lansdown'e excellent local history
volumes as our guide, and with previous heritage projects and local
museums as a resource, we create a comprehensive illustrated
timeline that puts a community's pivotal events into context and
renders them in an entertaining and accessible fashion.
Pivotal
Events in Arden & Lansdowne
An Illustrated
Timeline
The following collection of dates and activities has been drawn from
Lansdowne’s excellent local history books:
Legacies of Lansdowne – A Sequel – The Municipality of Lansdowne
1884-1984 R.M. of Lansdowne History Committee
The Lansdowne Story 1867 – 1967: “Grain, Gravel, Growth”, by A.F.
(Dick) McKenzie.
Additonal material comes from the collection of Manitoba Newspapers at
www.manitoba.ca
and from the Archives of Manitoba
A timeline is a useful way to establish a community’s
development, and a good way to note its highlights. All of this
information can be used to develop the kind of content that is helpful
in describing a community’s history through short, effective and
accurate texts that will be appropriate for educational support
materials, plaques, website content, and myriad other follow-up
projects.
The dates and activities have been presented in a decade-by-decade
format, which allows us to relive the past through the lens of the flow
of time; but it is important to note that pivotal events can also be
broadly grouped by major chronological periods in our history attached
to primary activities of a given era.
Thus we might look at the history of Lansdowne through the lens of
these categories:
• First Peoples
• Fur Trade: 1795 - 1856
• Pioneers: 1880-1889
• Community Consolidation: 1890 - 1904
• Community Incorporation: 1905-1913
• Wars, Roaring 20s and Dirty 30s: 1914-1945
• Post-War and 1950s: 1946-1959
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