Hartney & Cameron Heritage

The Hartney Special Places Project (2009) documented the existing heritage sites in Hartney and identified sites of notable heritage value.

http://www.hartneyheritage.ca/specialplaces/index.html

The East Railway Commercial Strip

Hartney’s main commercial thoroughfare (East Railway) has an important concentration of buildings that made this area of particular heritage value. The business street has an impressively intact number of buildings defining the typical styles, forms and details that once graced nearly all small-town Manitoba commercial thoroughfares.
The following images are used to highlight this important area in Hartney.

View of East Railway, from the west looking south.

View of Hartney main business street—East Railway—from the west looking across the old railway right-of-way.

Souris Street

A stretch of large houses on Souris Street has an important concentration of buildings that make this area of particular heritage value. The set of Queen Anne-style houses along Souris is exceptional for a community of our size, and a real tribute to the ambitions and taste that defined Hartney even at an early stage.

It is suggested that this area be noted for special attention when opportunities for heritage promotion and education arise. The following images are used to highlight this important area in Hartney. The “tour” starts at the north end of Souris and continues to the south, it is quite amazing to see impressive house after house in just one row.