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Neelin

Neelin is on the north shore of the Pembina River system between Rock and Pelican Lakes.

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Architectural Styles & Traditions MB

A research paper published by Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Recreation, Historic Resources Branch.

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    Arts & Crafts

    Book Store

    A Story for Every Mile

    This 140 page history of Southern Manitoba by Ed Ledohowski contains many photographs never before seen in publications and features many memoirs from Manitoba's past.

    It is for sale from the PMA by contacting pembinamanitouarchive@gmail.com.

    Price $60

    Shipping and Handling $25.

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      Business & Public Affairs

      Rock Lake - Metis Scrip Claims (1880)

      A listing of the Metis claimants to scrip lands in the district surrounding Rock Lake, Manitoba.

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        Canadian Pacific Railway

        Canada's Railway Heritage - Daryl Adair

        History of railroiads in Canada.

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          Community Histories

          I Remember by Caroline Cumming (1880)

          This set of recollections concerns the Huntly School District and the town of Neelin on the north side of Rock and Pelican Lakes.

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            Letters

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

            Letters written by Tennant and published in the Emerson International.

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              Manitoba Histories

              Canada 1812 - 1871 The Formative Years

              This booklet, originally published by Imperial Oil, provides an understanding of the culture of Southern Ontario in the 19th Century. Many of the original settlers of the Pembina Manitou District came from Southern Ontario in the 1880's.

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                Maps

                Cummins - Manitoba Township Maps 1923 - Metis Settlement at Rock Lake

                A map of the district around Neelin Manitoba where several Metis families settled in the 1880s.

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                  Memoirs & Memories

                  Gosselin Generations - the Elders (1880)

                  A historical memoir of the Gosselins, one of Manitoba's Métis families. The family lived in the Red River district, in the Rock Lake district before disbursing throughout Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

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                    Photos & Art Work

                    The Metis of Willow Bunch

                    Written by Ron Rivard and Catherine Littlejohn, this book tells the story of the Métis families who started out in the Red River district, then moved west to Rock Lake and eventually to Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan.

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                      Veterans' Experience & War Effort

                      Detailed Instructions to Conducting Staff - 1918 Canada

                      Instructions for military behaviour and rules of conduct. 

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