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The Dirty Thirties

1930 - 1939

This was a time of poverty, of making do with what you had. Farms were less than productive and motorized vehicles were reconstructed to be pulled by horses - Bennett buggies.

Community Histories

Elkhorn Residential School - The Spirit Lives On (1880)

A history of the Elkhorn Residential School in Elkhorn, Manitoba.

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    Emmanual Baptist Church, Morris MB - 1896-1996

    A history of the church community.

    PMA_2024_077475

      Fargey, Isabella - Memories of Other Days - LaRiviere Memoir (1880)

      A short memoir of early 20th century LaRiviere with a collection of period photos.

      PMA_2017_042920

        Farming at Fairbrook (1880)

        This collection of Lea Family photographs indicates how farming practices, and especially machinery, has changed over the past hundred years.

        PMA_2015_031063

        Fond: Lea Family
          Floral School 1884-1966 - A History

          A history of the school and community.

          PMA_2024_077594

            From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare - Helen Buckley

            A history of the experience of prairie indigenous first nations in making the tansition from a buffalo based economy to a settler/colonial economy.

            PMA_2022_061128

              Geographical Study of 2-9W - McKenzie District (1880)

              A research study of the McKenzie District Southern Manitoba and district written by Dennis Windsor.

              PMA_2018_045623

                Gnadenthal 1880-1980 (1880)

                This community history, published by the Gnadenthal History Church Committee, J P Redekopp chair, celebrates the community of Gnadenthal Manitoba, one of the communities in the Manitoba Mennonite West Reserve.

                PMA_2017_043300

                  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.

                   

                  PMA_2021_047289

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