Vantage Points Flashbacks

Short Audio Presentations of Local History Stories created by David Neufeld and Betty Sawatzky for the Turtle Mountain Souris Plains Heritage Association.

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Stories from... The RM of Deloraine - Winchester #4: Whitewater Lake  Change is the only constant when it come to this large shallow body of water. Themes Trails & Rivers      Fur Trade    Dakota, Nakota & First Nations    Settler - Pre-Railroad      Children #12: Kicking up our Heels at Billy's Point   / The Metigoshe Metis Community /  Billy Gosslin was a hunter and a trapper - and a Red River Metis. He had moved to Lake Metigoshe from North Dakota and settled on the west side of Turtle Mountain. Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources Themes       Metis & Mixed Blood         Community Cooperation & Organization    Biographies &Characters    Celebration   Recreation #13: Overlooking Fire  The complicated history of the prairie fire, and the changes brought by Euro-settlers Themes      Dakota, Nakota & First Nations    Settler - Pre-Railroad      Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs       Homesteading / Agriculture      Land Knowledge & Archaeology   #17: Master Newcomb  Each of the hundreds of homesteads registered in southwest Manitoba in the early 1880's required a visit to the Land Tiltes Office near Deloraine. Themes Trails & Rivers           Dakota, Nakota & First Nations    Settler - Pre-Railroad        Homesteading / Agriculture     Biographies &Characters      Government Influence #18:  The Edwards Sisters / Prairie Entrepreneurs The Edwards sisters graduated from Menota school with few available options. They could marry – or - get teacher training and then marry. But their true love was always with clothing. Themes       Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs   Women Leaders   Children       Commerce & Work   Biographies &Characters Celebration   #21 Sitting Eagle  A visit from Sitting Eagle, the grandson of H'damani, the leader of IR #60, was an event many a child would remember. Themes   Dakota, Nakota & First Nations      Children    Land Knowledge & Archaeology     Cross Cultural Learning  Biographies &Characters      Government Influence #22: Deloraine's Dr.Thornton  /  Doctor As Needed   Dr. Robert Thornton was there for the  folks of the Deloraine area - wherever called, and, whatever the weather. Themes Trails & Rivers      Metis & Mixed Blood      Health         Cross Cultural Learning       Biographies &Characters       Animals #23: Mrs.Doctor Indeed  We women got together last year, 1910, to form the Deloraine Women's Institute - and I'm its first president. I chuckled when the newspaper declared “Mrs. Robert J Thornton (Dr. Thornton's wife) First WI president!” Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources Themes             Community Cooperation & Organization        Women Leaders       Biographies &Characters         24: Farmer Mary at Dand A different sort of pioneer story Themes       Settler - Pre-Railroad   Community Cooperation & Organization     Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Women Leaders Children       Homesteading / Agriculture          Government Influence #39: Turtle Mountain Reserve  #60 The smallest Indian Reserve in Manitoba seemed to be doing well until the powers that be decided it should be "surrendered". Themes          Dakota, Nakota & First Nations      Homesteading / Agriculture         Cross Cultural Learning         Biographies &Characters      War & Conflict       Government Influence #45: Mountainside Mountainside is one of several stops on the Lyleton branch. That railway is fondly remembered as the lifeline of small communities. Themes Railways            Schools & Teachers       Children       Commerce & Work     Celebration       Animals #53: Mission School The Christian Endeavor Society operated a school on Turtle Mountain Reserve for a short while in the mid 1890's. Themes Dakota, Nakota & First Nations     Community Cooperation & Organization           Schools & Teachers    Churches & Religion        Children          Government Influence #55: Mining the Mountain The Salter and Henderson mines , near Goodlands, became the most successful in Manitoba. They were separated by a barbed-wire fence. Themes Railways      Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Children      Land Knowledge & Archaeology    Commerce & Work  Biographies & Characters     War & Conflict #59: Belgian Horses  /  Belgian Immigration in the Deloraine area. The Government of Canada was advertising land. And new beginnings were what Belgian farmers needed. The open prairie sparkled in our minds as we prepared to come. Good thing we didn't know how rustic it'd be. And how we'd miss our big black horses. Themes      Churches & Religion    Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Children     Homesteading / Agriculture   Cross Cultural Learning  Biographies & Characters         Government Influence

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