St. Andrews-on-the-Red features a historic stone church still in use.

Explore our history at St. Andrews-on-the-Red

The site features Western Canada’s oldest stone church that is still in use

Although snow still covers the ground, it’s time to start planning summer day trips. If you’re interested in Manitoba’s history and beautiful scenery, you might want to consider St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, commonly known as St. Andrew’s-on-the-Red, on the west side of the Red River. The parish was established by Reverend W. Cockran in 1828,

Remnants of dairy history are displayed inside the Manitoba Dairy Museum.

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History is on full display at St. Claude’s local attractions

Road trips may seem like a pricey proposition this summer due to high gas prices, but who says a road trip has to wrack up the odometer? For a different option this summer, there’s the St. Claude area in southern Manitoba. Small farming communities aren’t known for their tourist draw, but a jaunt off the


The Klippenstein house barn, brought here in 1876, is owned by the Neubergthal Heritage Foundation. NHF board members Shaun Friesen (l-r), Ray Hamm, Norma Giesbrecht and Karen Martens are excited about the potential to raise cash for its restoration through a national crowd sourcing platform.

Barn (fund) raising in the digital age

This Place Matters is an online crowdfunding initiative of the National Trust of Canada helping spread the word so all Canadians can help save places that matter to them

Neubergthal has always known this place matters, and now it’s telling all of Canada why, in a competition of the same name. The place is the Klippenstein house barn, one of two of the original buildings of this southern Manitoba village, and hauled here, timber by timber by Mennonite settlers in 1876 after being dismantled

R. M. Abandons Fort Ellice Development

– Philip Fafard “We’ve told our lawyers to please just settle whatever costs have been added up and we’re done, we’re out. It’s been a traumatic four years” Citing costs, the R. M. of Ellice and the village of St. Lazare have pulled the plug on plans to build a tourist attraction around the site

Railway Gone, But Station Lives On

The grain elevator and the railway are gone, but the railway station, which is now a museum and national historic site, still stands in this farming community 120 years after it was built. With the help of a $9,000 grant from the federal government and the ongoing efforts of the Miami Railway Station Museum Association,


Towns Rebuilding After Fire Losses

“We’re building a new fire hall.” – glenboro mayor bill shackel They lost rinks, churches, and heritage sites to fires, but new buildings are rising, and spokespersons in Manitoba communities say they can even see a “silver lining” in it all now. Between 2006 and 2008 several rural communities lost key public buildings to fires