Story Index

Old Melita Trail
Old Wakopa
(1877—1886) The first town in the southwest. Bernard B. LaRiviere established a home and store which serviced the first settlers coming west along the Boundary Commission Trail.
Order It From Eaton's
Pauline Johnson Comes to Town
Pierson
POW Farm Labour in Melita & Pierson
For a short time – near the end of WW2 – German POW’s spent some quality time in the Two Borders area.
Prairie Fire!
Prairie Skills Centre
Private Banks
Before the national chains arrived, individual businessmen filled that need.
Purple Hill Church
Railway Schemes
Red River Jig
Rise of the Métis Identity
Salter and Henderson Mines
(1932 – 1943) The two most successful coal mines in Manitoba were located only a stone's throw away from one another.
Shirley Colquhoun: Lake Metigoshe Resident
Shutting Down IR#60
The claim was that H’Damani and his band were improperly forced out of their home and not fairly compensated.
Sitting Eagle
Skull Swamp
Skull Swamp is an example of the ingenuity possessed by post glacial societies in their bison hunting techniques and how they used the existing landscape to their advantage.
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