The Settlement Period

The Manitou Normal School provided teacher training from 1892 to 1933, teaching prospective teachers the norms expected of their students. This photo shows the Fall 1913 class of graduates.

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The Manitou Normal School provided teacher training from 1892 to 1933, teaching prospective teachers the norms expected of their students. This photo shows the 1915 class of graduates.

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This short history of the Manitou Normal Schools was taken from the community history 'Come Into Our Heritage' published in 1997.

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Contains a collection of news articles and posters concerning a hundred years of performances at Manitou's Opera Houses.

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This 1905 brochure, published while Wes McClung was on the town council, provides background information on the town and municipality as well as space for many advertisements for local merchants.

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A booklet probably published in support of the local Dog and Gun Club. As well as featuring the Municipality of Pembina Council, it features photographs of some of the award winning setters and retrievers raised by Wootton and Ellis.

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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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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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A survey collection of short biographies of some of the many people who have influenced the lives of the people of the Manitou community, researched and compiled by Bette Mueller.

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