Heritage Explorer

Mr. Logan Comes to Lauder

As often happened, settlers came first... then the town followed

Mrs. Hathaway's Homestead

Mrs. Weightman Comes to Canada

Mullett Site

Murder and Mutiny Aboard the Cutty Sark

Murder for a Homestead

Charlie Daw and Jacob Smith met an unfortunate end at the hands of greed

Naming Medora

The story of each small town has both typical and unique elements.

Napinka at the Crossroads

A CPR decision created a boom in Napinka and it lasted quite a while.

Napinka School - Built to Last

Newcomb's Hollow: Old Deloraine Land Titles Office

(1880 – 1893) During its thirteen years of operation, the Old Deloraine Land Titles Office settled 1,200,000 acres of prairie land.

Numbered Treaties in Manitoba

Nurse Halladay and Boissevain’s First Hospital

Oil Exploration

Old Deloraine

(1882 - 1886) Old Deloraine was established just north of the Land Titles Office, but moved when the railway came through the area.

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