The Settlement Period era – Maps

This brochure promoted the amenities, the lands and services, available in 1889 to those wishing to homestead and settle in what was then the Rural Municipality of Louise - including what is now the western half of Pembina Municipality

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Shows many early settlements and the boundaries of the municipalities ca 1900.

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A scan of an 1878 map of Southern Manitoba indicating the townships surveyed to that year and indicating which sections had to that point been homesteaded

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Published by the Dominion of Canada, this map also provides detailed railroad information.

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A collection of maps featuring the south west cornder of Manitoba.

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The McKenzie Cemetery was deconstructed to clear the land for fieldwork, the stones bulldozed. Later some stones were reclaimed and set along the headland near the cemetery site.

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This map shows the original homestead registrations in the district surrounding Morris MB. Original research was by Tim Lewis using the resources of the Manitoba Legislative Library.

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Map published in conjunction with 'The North-West Mounted Police 1873-1893. Vol.1 by John Peter Turner.

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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.

This map preserves memories of the inhabitants of an early settlement between Pilot Mound and Marringhurst.

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A map of the municipality indicating the sites of settlement period communities.

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