Heritage Explorer

Story Index

Strathallen School
(1892 - 1966) The grounds of Strathallen School are still in occassion use today as a community gathering place and baseball field.
Tena's Boarding House
The Adventures of a Radar Repairman
The Anchorage
The Beef Ring - A Cooperative Success
The Belgian Connection
A unique group of immigrants established a community that remains connected to its roots.
The Berns Brothers Come to Tilston
US immigration to Manitoba was quite common for a while. This family left its mark.
The Boiler Trail
(1880 - 1882) The Boiler Trail provided a detour around the muddiest section of the Boundary Commission Trail.
The Boundary Commission Trail
(Pre 1600 - 1882) The Boundary Commission Trail was the first "highway" to the west, carrying First Nations to and fro, Metis on bison hunts and Europeans looking for rich farmland.
The Broomhill Store
The Case of the Nazi Farmhand
80 years later, a drawing on an old threshing machine tells a tale – or part of a tale.
The Diana Icelandic Cemetery
A small settlement north of Tilston connects our region to the story of the Manitoba Icelanders.
The Edwards Sisters - Business Partners
The First Phone in Boissevain
The Halfway House
The Hartney Air Training Field
Hartney was part of the war effort in a big way
The Harvest Excursion
Special trains brought men to help with the prairie harvest. Quite a few of them stayed and put down roots
The Home Bank Scandal Hits Lyleton
The Inventor From Pierson
The Latest Thing – The Telephone
The Local Egg Grading Station
The Metigoshe Métis Community
The Metis have been permanently settling on Turtle Mountain for over a hundred years.
The Mision School
The Christian Endeavor Society operated a school for a short time on IR60 in the 1890’s
The Mission School
The Christian Endeavor Society operated a school on IR #60 in the 1890’s.
The Neighbourhood Lime Kiln
Locally made lime was the glue that held many of those early stone buildings together.