Manitou

Designed by Steckley and Associates of Winkler, with much help from the Manitou Opera House Foundation, these drawings reflect the intent of the Foundation - to ensure the new building complemented the original design of the Manitou Opera House.

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News clippings in a scrap book featuring stories from the Pembina Manitou district of Manitoba.

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A booklet of postcards featuring Manitou, Manitoba. It was mailed from one Normalite to another over the Christmas break in 1913.

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A short history of the telephone exchange in Manitou with reference to the original subscribers. The MTS Archive has also donated a 1908 box telephone to the Nellie McClung Heritage Site.

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Selected pages from a facsimile of a document listing the Tradesmen in Manitoba and the Northwest in 1887.

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A mimeographed yearbook published in honour of the Manitou Youth Training Centre class of 1937-38.

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This article tells the story of Manitou's CPR Log Cabin, built in 1884 to house the railway workers then building the line west to LaRiviere. Ths article also tells of some of the posple who lived in the Log Cabin aver the past century, and of the Cabin's transition to become the Pembina Manitou  Log Cabin Tourism Centre.

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Lorne Thompson's report on the Manitou Gas House, which provided lighting to the homes and businesses of the community from 1906 to 1928, contains illustrations and photograph of the machinery used to produce the acetylene gas. The Gas House itself is one of Manitou's heritage buildings.

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The story of the misinterpretation of a fake stone signature created by a young Manitou citizen.

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