Manitou – Memoirs & Memories

The primary purpose of this research project, undertaken by Gerald Panting in 1953 for the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, was to discover what historical materials were still extant in the South Central district of Manitoba at that time. The secondary purpose was to obtain information about the pioneer days from people who knew about that period from first hand.

Files have been named based on the community - from Morden to Killarney - in which the pioneer lived in 1953, not according to where they originally settled.

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This was the programme distributed during the 1929 celebration of the Pembina/Manitou 50th Anniversary celebration.

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Short memoirs of local residents.

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This article with photographs is intended to provide information on the life and experiences of Cecil F Guest while he was in Southern Manitoba. The documents concerning his life are now much more accessible because of the work of such groups as Ancestry.UK.

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One of a series of interviews of Manitou community elders compiled by Bette Mueller.

This one features Aileen Sanders.

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

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A news article concerning the 25th Anniversary of the Parish and a commemorative program from the 50th Anniversary Celebrations.

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

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Letters written by Tennant and published in the Emerson International.

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

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