Pre-European Settlement

A history of the board.

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Star Mound has been a well known gathering site for centuries and was one of the sites consistently mentioned by the early explorers of Manitoba. On the height of the hill is a turtle shaped mound. The Star Mound school originally stood below the height of the hill, but was moved to the height by the community to provide a focus for their heritage site. 

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A history of the community centred around the Aboriginal Heritage Site on Star Mound, Manitoba.

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Discovered during archeological research by Henry Montgomery at Calf Mountain, south of Darlingford, Manitoba, this shell gorget is now in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Nellie McClung wrote most of her rough drafts in notebooks of different sizes. Mixed in with drafts of speeches would be lists of money spent on journeys, or grocery lists and expense lists for day to day.

The original document can be found in the Royal British Columbia Archive.

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Chris Vickers completed a series of archaeological digs in the Mound Builder and Assiniboine sites in Southern Manitoba between 1940 and 1950.

These reports were prepared for the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba and are now in the collection of the University of Manitoba.

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This document includes the journal entry ‘Itinerary” version of Henry Youle Hind’s two week long journey from Fort Garry to Fort Ellice via the Souris River, during the summer of 1858. The art work is by John Flemming.

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Nellie McClung wrote most of her rough drafts in notebooks of different sizes. Mixed in with drafts of speeches would be lists of money spent on journeys, or grocery lists and expense lists for day to day.

The original document can be found in the Royal British Columbia Archive.

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This document includes the journal entry ‘Itinerary” version of Henry Youle Hind’s two week long journey from Fort Garry to Fort Ellice via the Souris River, during the summer of 1858. The art work is by John Flemming.

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