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Sources & Inspiration

Local History Volumes

To keep things simple, I've generally just used abbreviated citations in the text. Eg: "Hartney History"

Assiniboine River

Glenboro and Area Historical Society. Beneath the Long Grass: Glenboro, Manitoba. Glenboro: The Society, 1979.
Grand Valley: Reminiscences of Early Brandon, Mrs. Dougald McVicar
Municipal Memories: 1884 - 1984, RM of Cornwallis. Leech Printing
The Brandon Hills Story (1979)
Brandon: A City - G.F. Barker, 1977
Griswold: "Bridging the Years 1867-1967 - Griswold Centennial Booklet"
Whitehead RM: Whitehead Wanderings
Oak Lake: "Ox Trails to Blacktop" Oak Lake History Committee, Friesen, 1982

Souris River

Sourisford and Area from 1879, The Sourisford History Committee
Melita: Our First Century (Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur), Melita - Arthur History Committee
Lauder: The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, G.G. Phillips, 1973
A Century of Living - Hartney & District 1882 - 1982, Hartney and District Historical Committee
The Prairie W.A.S.P., J.A.D. Stuart
Oakland Echoes, JB & J. Rome 1970. Leech Printing
Riverside (R.M.) Riverside Heritage, 1896 - 1996, Riverside Centennial Committee, Friesens, Altona, MB 1996
The People of Souris and Glenwood: From the earliest beginnings to the present", Souris and District Heritage Club, 2006.
Souris: A Pictorial History - Then and Now, 1989
Wawanesa: Sipiweske - 100 Years of Wawanesa and District. Wawanesa and District History Book Committee, 1988

The Little Saskatchewan River

Kirkham's Bridge: From generation to generation. Rapid City and District; Our Past for the Future. Rapid City Historical Book Society. (ISBN: 0-919213-38-3) . [1978],

The Boundary Trail

Clearwater, 1876-1885: being some record of the life and times of Clearwater, Manitoba Author: Clearwater Women's Institute: Publisher: Pilot Mound: Pilot Mound Sentinel Print, 1927
Memories Along the Badger. A Story of the Village of Cartwright, Manitoba, seventy-five years of our history, 1885-1960. ? (Also Memories... Revisited)
Memories Along the Badger, Revisited. Cartwright & District 1885-1985. ?
Clearwater, 1876-1885 : being some record of the life and times of Clearwater, Manitoba Author: Clearwater Women's Institute: Publisher: Pilot Mound: Pilot Mound Sentinel Print, 1927

Here and There

Trails and Crossroads to Killarney, Garland, Aileen, the Killarney and District Historical Committee , Friesens Alton 1967
Bridging Brenda (Vol 1&2), Brenda History Committee, 1990Holmfield: "By the Old Mill Stream." A History of the Village of Holmfield & District, 1982. ?
Kavanaugh, Martin, The Assiniboine Basin, The Gresham Press, Old Woking, Surrey, England
Goldsborough, Gordon. On the Road to Abandoned Manitoba, Great Plains Press, 2023- Specifically - P11 and p 251 For an overview on roads and highways

Suggestions, Acknowledgments & Thanks

For anyone wanting to dig more deeply into this topic or related topics I recommend the wide variety of resources available on the Manitoba Historical Society website. I turned often to Historic Sites of Manitoba and the MHS Facebook page.

In putting this document together I benefitted from a re-read of all three of Gordon Goldsborough's Abandoned Manitoba series. It provided more than facts, it provided inspiration.

A complete listing of relevant Local History Books is provided. The volunteers who created those books have done an important job. Without them much would have been lost.

In my resource collection at: www.virtualmanitoba.com you will find, among other things, a section devoted to "Crossings" where I will add updates, more photos and extensions on the topic.