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Portage La Prairie – Manitoba Histories

People of the First Man - Karl Bodmer

Stories of the first Natins in their final days of glory.

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    Railway Builders - Skelton (1830)

    A history of Canada's Railways.

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      Sanderson, John - The First Homesteader - 1872

      John Sanderson homesteaded near Portage la Prairie. His was the first homestead registered. 

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        Southern Manitoba and the Turtle Mountain Country by Rev L. O. Armstrong

        Rev. L. O. Armstrong's diary of his journey from Emerson to the Turtle Mountains.

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          Strangers in Blood - Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country - Brown (1500)

          An ethnographic social history of the fur trade.

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            Ten Thousand Years - Archaeology in Manitoba (1880)

            A study of archaeology in Manitoba.

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              Tennant, J. F. - A Tour Through the Turtle Mountain District - 1880 (1875)

              Tennant's diaries of his journey from Emerson to the Turtle Mountain district of Manitoba.

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                Tennant, Joseph F. - Letters from a Journey to the Turtle Mountains - 1882 (1875)

                Letters written by Tennant and published in the Emerson International.

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                  Tennant, Joseph F. - Rough Times 1870-1920

                  Tennant's autobiographical memoir of his time in Southern Manitoba.

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