A Guide to Resources




Heritage Websites


Research Projects

Ideas & Editorial

Resource Collections

Heritage Organizations

This & That


Heritage Websites


Resource Collections


Local History Resources Index

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Research Projects

Brandon Railways

The birth and growth of the Wheat City - it's all about the railways.


Turtle Mountain and the Souris Plains


An Overview of Our History

General Rosser's Legacy

A Manitoba History Article

The Chapman Museum
Preseving History in the Roseville / Kirkam's Bridge Area

Dakota Stories

The Souris River
A Pictorial Essay

Shelterbelts in Manitoba

The Grand Trunk Pacific in Rivers

Cherry Point
A notable archealogical site on Oak lake

Sourisford
The story of a River Crossing

Turtle Mountain Mud
The Goodlands/ Deloraine Coal Mines

The Souris Bend
History of a Landscape

The Sekine Bicycle Story - In Rivers Mb.
Train Tracks - Railway Stories - Rivers Mb.

Heritage Organizations

Manitoba Heritage Organizations

The Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains Heritage Association

The Historic Resources Branch

Heritage Manitoba

Boundary Trail National Heritage Region

Westman Museums

Manitoba Genealogical Society

Manitoba Historical Society

Manitoba Living History Society 

Manitoba Museum


Manitoba Archaeological Society


Canadian Heritage Organizations

Peel's Prairie Provinces (Includes full searchable copies of the numerous historic prairie works.)

Canada's History Magazine
Heritage Canada
Archives Canada
Historic Places Initiative

Ideas & Editorials

Wildlife Management Areas
A Treasure in Distress

We need to rethink Wildlife Management Areas.  They were designed with hunting in mind, but but with a little "Management" they can continue to serve that purpose as well as serving other valuable functions.




Healthy Communities

A loosely connected series of observations about healthy communities rooted in personal experience and extensive travel in rural Manitoba.

This & That

Activities, Projects & Educational Intintiatives

Canoe Journeys in Western Manitoba

The Souris River Mystery