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
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Written by F. F. Enns, this is a biography of a respected spiritual leader in the Mennonite community.
PMA_2020_046892
A history of the Elkhorn Residential School in Elkhorn, Manitoba.
PMA_2018_044901
A history of the church community.
PMA_2024_077475
A short memoir of early 20th century LaRiviere with a collection of period photos.
PMA_2017_042920
This collection of Lea Family photographs indicates how farming practices, and especially machinery, has changed over the past hundred years.
PMA_2015_031063
A history of the school and community.
PMA_2024_077594
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
A research study of the McKenzie District Southern Manitoba and district written by Dennis Windsor.
PMA_2018_045623
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