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.

PMA_2013_021162

Fond: Archives of Manitoba

Panting, Gerald - A Historical Survey of Southern Manitoba - Introduction (1880)

PMA_2013_021161

Fond: Archives of Manitoba

Providing Context - The Cecil Guest Collection (1899)

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.

PMA_2013_018198

Fond: Lea Family

Richard N. Lea's Migratory Bird Journal - Transcription by Felix Kuehn (1880)

A transcription by Felix Kuehn with added articles and newspaper references to R. N. Lea's work as a naturalist.

PMA_2012_008012

Fond: Lea Family

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.

PMA_2025_079973

Fond: Pembina Manitou Archive