False Starts has been updated and replaced by a series of articles I've temporarily organized under the heading:

The Westman Collection

My interest in the history of these riverside communities grew out of my interest in the rivers. As I was preparing an earlier volume, "Canoe Journeys in Southwestern Manitoba", I began an exploration of the historic sites that exist along our rivers. I thought that a bit of history would make such river journeys even more interesting.
After doing a bit of research, I was surprised, and a little disappointed, that although I had attended High School not fifty kilometres away from Souris Mouth, and obtained a degree in History at Brandon University, I could recall no mention of these sites and the stories they have to tell. History was always something that happened somewhere else.

So that provided my motivation as I continued to read the local histories and search through more comprehensive volumes in search of that local connection. Important things did happen here. Interesting things happened here.

I have tried to provide plenty of maps and photos that will allow the reader to make the connection between the stories of the past and the places of the present.

Proceed.. 

Ken Storie

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