Story Index – Turtle Mountain-Souris Plains Heritage Association

What's In a Name?
What’s On In Melita This Week?
What The Rats of Cranmer Knew
Whitewater: Whitewater Lake was an important natural feature to yesterdays earliest people and provides a safe haven for today's birds and wildlife.
Whitewater Village: (1886 – 1960s) Whitewater Village flourished on the shore of Whitewater Lake for over 75 years.
Who Was Walter Farwell?: Perhaps a small town in a new land is the perfect place to start over?
Who Where the First Farmers on the Plains?: In Southwestern Manitoba, sites such as the Snyder II Site south of Melita offer rare evidence of pre-contact agriculture.
Why Locomotives had Cow Catchers….: Train mishaps were common, and occasionally, uncommon.
Yellow Quill Trail: The Yellow Quill Trail began as a trade route used by First Nations but served as a convenient avenue of travel for fur traders and pioneering Europeans as well.