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The All Saint’s Church and Cemetery served as a landmark and community centre for over 30 years before the numbers in the parish could no longer support it. Purple Hill Church Web / PDF Vol. III, Page 42 In 1898 the Purple Hill Church, located in the Medora area, was opened and dedicated. Chain Lakes Quaker Church Web / PDF Vol. III, Page 46 The area around Chain Lakes was settled by Quakers—also commonly known as “Friends.” Vantage Points Flashbacks: Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Places Link Grande Clairière Convent Web / PDF Vol. I, Page 29 The beginning of the Grande Clairière Convent was marked in 1898 when Father J. Gaire, the parish priest from Grande Clairière, was visiting the family of one of his parishioners in France. Vantage Points Flashbacks: Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Places Link Copley Church Web / PDF Vol. II, Page 40 In the extreme southwest corner of the province of Manitoba there sits the ruins of a small church. The first church of any denomination to be built west of the Souris River. Places
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Sourisford Linear Burial Mounds Web / PDF Vol. 2, Page 40 Artifacts from these thousand year-old burial mounds indicate the trade relations that existed upon the plains before convenient modes of transportation. The Diana Icelandic Cemetery Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 22 lcelandic settlers originally come to the New Iceland settlement at Gimli beginning in 1876. Some later moved on to the Grund area between Baldur and Glenboro, and when homesteads were becoming harder to find, a few moved west to the area between Sinclair and Tilston. The Mission School Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 3 In 1892 the local Endeavor Society obtained some funds and set up a school in a donated cabin on the Turtle Mountain Reserve. Vantage Points Flashbacks: Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Document Link St. Paul's Cemetery and Catholic Church Web / PDF Vol. III, Page 39 In the spring of 1917 the Belgian community living on the slopes of Turtle Mountain and their priest, Father P. E. Halde decided to build themselves a church wherein they could pursue their worship of the Catholic faith.
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