Heritage Explorer

Story Index

Snowplane to the Rescue
The short era of the Snow Plane was possible by new technology, then rendered obsolete by better road maintenance.
Snyder II Site
Some Assembly Required…Mail Order Homes
The T. Eaton Company was the most well known, but not the only provider of ready-to build house packages.
Sourisford
It was well known to travellers of the prairies where the best place to cross the Souris River was: Sourisford.
Sourisford Linear Burial Mounds
(900 - 1400 AD) Artifacts from these thousand year-old burial mounds indicate the extent of the trade relations that existed upon the plains before convenient modes of transportation.
Souris River
St. Paul's Church
Strathallen School
(1892 - 1966) The grounds of Strathallen School are still in occassion use today as a community gathering place and baseball field.
Tena's Boarding House
The Adventures of a Radar Repairman
The Anchorage
The Beef Ring - A Cooperative Success
The Belgian Connection
A unique group of immigrants established a community that remains connected to its roots.
The Berns Brothers Come to Tilston
US immigration to Manitoba was quite common for a while. This family left its mark.
The Boiler Trail
(1880 - 1882) The Boiler Trail provided a detour around the muddiest section of the Boundary Commission Trail.
The Boundary Commission Trail
(Pre 1600 - 1882) The Boundary Commission Trail was the first "highway" to the west, carrying First Nations to and fro, Metis on bison hunts and Europeans looking for rich farmland.
The Broomhill Store
The Case of the Nazi Farmhand
80 years later, a drawing on an old threshing machine tells a tale – or part of a tale.
The Diana Icelandic Cemetery
A small settlement north of Tilston connects our region to the story of the Manitoba Icelanders.
The Edwards Sisters - Business Partners
The First Phone in Boissevain
The Halfway House
The Hartney Air Training Field
Hartney was part of the war effort in a big way
The Harvest Excursion
Special trains brought men to help with the prairie harvest. Quite a few of them stayed and put down roots
The Home Bank Scandal Hits Lyleton