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1. Introduction

2. The Distant Past

3. First Nations

4. The Fur Trade

5. European Settlement

6. Notable People

7. Railway Era

8. Resources


Resources and Links

The Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains Heritage Association is preparing a set of Interpretive Signs for Coulter Park. These signs will summarize some of the content in this project.

Regional Histories

Melita: Our First Century (Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur), Melita - Arthur History Committee

Wright, N.E. In View of Turtle Hill - A survey of the history of southwestern Manitoba to 1900, Deloraine Times Publishing, 1951(online at Peel's Prairie Provinces)

Sourisford:  "Sourisford and Area from 1879", The Sourisford History Committee

Morran, G.A. Souris River Posts , The Souris Plaindealer

Clarke, Lawrence, Souris Valley Plains. A History,  Hartney Mb.

Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains Heritage Association Vantage Points I, II, III, & IV


www.vantagepoints.ca


http://www.virtualmanitoba.com/heritagegallery/BoundaryCommission/index.html

http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/against-all-odds/

http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/brockinton-site/

http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/kitchen-table-surgery/

http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/sourisford/

http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/sourisford-linear-burial-mounds/

http://vantagepoints.ca/stories/boundary-commission-trail/