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Country Crossroads

Do you know where this barn is?

Manitoba historian Gordon Goldsborough is volunteering with the Manitoba Historical Society to map historic sites in Manitoba. He is seeking help from Co-operator readers to relocate barns and other buildings featured in a 1981 photo series that ran in this newspaper.

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If you know where that old barn or farmhouse or church in your area is — or was — a Manitoba historian needs your help. In early 1981 the Co-operator worked with provincial Manitoba Historic Resources Branch staff to photograph and publish a series on rural buildings in Manitoba. Over about two years, the paper
Elderly couple holding award.
Country Crossroads

Municipal record keeper and grave finder honoured

Jack Mavins of Anola is one of five Manitobans to receive the Lieutenant-Governor’s Award 
for long and meritorious service in the preservation and promotion of provincial history

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Jack Mavins’ phone rang off the hook after a city newspaper story awhile back described his knack for finding unmarked graves. Callers wanted his help and he was happy to oblige. Until then, the Anola senior said he’d been a bit reluctant to say too much about his grave “dowsing” or “witching” as some call
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Brandon Research Centre Celebrates 125th

Back in 1886, farmers around here were suffering from drought, Prairie fires were a problem and frost had damaged wheat the fall before. But there was good news too: Brandon was getting an experimental farm – one of five to be built across the country after the Experimental Farm Station Act received Royal Assent June
Country Crossroads

Keeping Local History Alive

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Les Green is often asked what makes him interested in local history. “And I always say, when you’re 85 years old, you are history,” quips the Portage la Prairie resident. Green writes a weekly newspaper column and booklets on local history, and has an extensive personal archives on Portage’s history, so he’s the man everyone
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Controversial Wheat Comes To An Official End – for Aug. 5, 2010

Periodically, the Prairie grain industry faces controversy when wheat growers find varieties which offer apparent agronomic benefits, but with quality characteristics that don’t fit official classes. The deregistration of the wheat variety Garnet earlier last month reminds that such controversies are not new. Licensing of Garnet prompted national political discussion in the 1920s and 1930s.
Livestock

Grasslands Going To Bush, Aerial Photos Show

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SE 21-09-11W -1946 SE 21-09-11W -1994 “Fire was one of nature’s natural elements, and we have controlled it.” – Bill Gardiner When Henry Youle Hind led an expedition across the Prairies in 1858, there were apparently very few trees. “The country west of Souris is a treeless desert, in dry seasons destitute of water, and
Country Crossroads

AMM launches With One Voice: A History of Municipal Governance in Manitoba at 2008 convention New book commemorates 100 years of municipal leadership

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To save gas during WWII, farm trucks weren’t permitted to operate further than 35 miles from the farm and farmers had to paint the address on the sides of their trucks as proof. The town of Neepawa was the first municipality in North America to own its own telephone system. An early Municipal Act stipulated

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