The Settlement Period era – Community Histories

A history.

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A history.

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A detailed history of the various forms this water craft has taken, and a description of their makers.

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The Cassin Family owned two hotels. The first was the Stewart House Hotel which was built in Manitoba City and moved to Manitou in 1884. The second, the Cassin House Hotel, which they built after the first one burned.
The collection includes many photos of Manitou people and events.

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A memoir.

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A description of the first decade of the Red River Colony.

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A European perspective on life in the early settlement period.

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Manitou was served by an acetylene gas plant from 1906 to 1926. The gas plant building still stands in north west Manitou. Lorne Thompson researched this architecural artefact as part of a Heritage Manitoba project.

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The letters of James Hargrave written to and about Red River Colony citizens from 1821 to 1843.

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A short history of the Altamont district in South Central Manitoba.

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