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Neelin

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

Community Histories

Canada 100 - 1867-1967

A history written for Canada's 100th.

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    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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      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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        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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          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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            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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              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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