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A plaque near the entrance of the Manitoba Archives Building in Winnipeg. Reading journals from Hudson’s Bay Company posts, a researcher can sometimes gather anecdotal clues about historic temperature and precipitation on a given day.

On anecdotal evidence and the WS-5000 weather station

There’s still plenty of time for us to receive significant precipitation — or not

By Daniel Bezte March 29, 2021

Lately I seem to have a lot of topics to discuss. For example, it seems like this winter was one of the shortest on record. This should be an easy question to answer, but it is not. What defines winter? Is it a certain range of temperatures? Snow on the ground? Or, as my son

George Siamandas is the Winnipeg filmmaker and photographer who is writing the script for a four-part documentary on Canadian Prairie agriculture inspired by last year’s bicentennial celebrations of the Selkirk settlers’ arrival and establishment of the Red River settlement in 1812.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Prairie farming coming to a (TV) screen near you

The four-part documentary was inspired by last summer’s bicentenary of the Red River settlement

By Lorraine Stevenson July 31, 2013

Work is well underway on a four-part documentary on the story of agriculture in Manitoba and the Canadian Prairies. The film, inspired by last year’s 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Selkirk settlers, will follow the story of farming on the Prairies from the first sowing of a bushel and a half of wheat

News, Opinion, Our History

Our history: Thomas Bunn House

By Ed Ledohowski May 14, 2012

River Lot 97, Bunn’s Road, RM of St. Clements Begun in 1862, the former Thomas Bunn House is likely the oldest continuously occupied dwelling in all of Manitoba and one of its oldest surviving stone structures. It is also a superb example of a modest-size “Georgian-style” house, popular at the time in Scotland and England,

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Trappers SayIt’s A Good Year For ‘Rats

By Daniel Winters October 27, 2011

Farmers and ranchers who lost acres to flooding this spring might look to their sloughs for some payback this trapping season. Last spring, top-quality muskrat pelts averaged around $10 each, and industry sources are optimistic that those prices could hold for this year s harvest. Barry Verbiwski, head of the furbearer and problem wildlife management

Country Crossroads

Property Contributes To Biodiversity – for Sep. 23, 2010

By Bill Stilwell September 23, 2010

There is a place that hasn’t changed much since the days of the early fur traders. A lush river valley located between Alexander and Rivers appears much like it was back in 1670 when it fell under control of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Today it is being protected by a Conservation Agreement (CA). “Mother and

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On anecdotal evidence and the WS-5000 weather station

Prairie farming coming to a (TV) screen near you

Our history: Thomas Bunn House

Trappers SayIt’s A Good Year For ‘Rats

Property Contributes To Biodiversity – for Sep. 23, 2010

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