Theme: Cross Cultural Learning
Vantage Points Stories (Books, Online & pdf)
Vantage Point Flashbacks (Radio Broadcasts)
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Theme:  Cross Cultural Learning Format: Vantage Points Article


Vantage Points articles are presented with links (Web) to the story on the Vantage Points Website
  and as print-ready PDF files.

For a Radio Broadcast based on the story select the "Vantage Points Flashback" link.
For more info about locations follow the "Places Link".
To visit a related website follow the "Web Link" (There may be more than 1).
To download a related Document click the "Document Link".



Volume 1


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

The Metigoshe Métis Community   Web  / PDF     Vol.  I, Page 31
The first permanent Métis settlers moved to Turtle Mountain in 1908.

Billy's Point          Web  / PDF      Vol.  I, Page 32
William (Billy) Gosselin, a descendant of the Red River Métis, moved from North Dakota to homestead in Manitoba.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:    Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Mennonite Settlement in Southwest Manitoba   /   Web  / PDF      Vol. I , Page  34
Mennonites settle on the Canadian Prairies -  Post 1923
Vantage Points Flashbacks:        Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Marsden Schools       Web  / PDF    Vol. I, Page 38
The school became an important feature to the Métis community and helped local people affirm their heritage in this area by being its only Métis school. It doubled by serving as a community centre and dance hall as well.

Volume 2

Rise of the Métis Identity       Web  / PDF    Vol.  II, Page 6
Vantage Points Flashbacks      Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources


 Beginning of the Metigoshe Community       Web  / PDF     Vol.  II, Page 8
1908 - Present
 
Red River Jig        Web  / PDF     Vol.  II, Page 9
The steps of the Red River Jig are influenced by the First Nation pow-wow, while at the same time contain the essentials of Scottish and Irish traditional dances

 Workingfor Pay & Trapping       PDF     Vol.  II, Page 11 - 13

Harvesting & Hunting      PDF     Vol.  II, Page 14 - 20

Traditional Foods, Holidays & Celebrations, Recreation, and the Red River Jig    PDF     Vol.  II, Page 21-26
 
Goods and Stores, Transportation, Communication, Healthcare   PDF     Vol.  II, Page 27 - 31

Chinese Settlement in Rural Manitoba     Web  / PDF      Vol.  II, Page 50
Over the span of his nearly 100 years he became a sailor, farmer, veterinarian, gold-panner and dedicated community worker

Volume 3

Grande Clairiere     Web  / PDF    Vol.  III, Page 31
In the spring of that year new settlers began arriving from France and by July there were 43 homes and almost 150 people in Grande Clairière.  

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


Volume 4
Cricket Anyone? : The Waubeesh English Settlement        Web  / PDF     Vol.  IV, Page 38
There were many attempts in Western Canada for groups from Britain to duplicate the sort of life they were used to in their home country.

Sitting Eagle      Web /  PDF      Vol.  IV, Page 40
He and his Grandfather H'damani were among the few who declined a $200 government pay-off to relocate to a reserve near Pipestone. By 1909, only H’damani, his grandson Chaske (later known as Sitting Eagle) and a few others remained.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:     Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Pauline Johnson Comes to Town     Web  /  PDF     Vol.  IV, Page 51
The celebrated poet toured extensively across Canada. She even came to Napinka, where she made quite an impression.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:    Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources


Volume 5


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

Shutting Down IR#60    Web /  PDF     Vol. V, Page 4 & 5
In 1889 Indian Agent J.A. Markle, based in Birtle, raised the possibility of relocating H’damani’s band.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:     Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
Document Link

The Fish Lake Cemetery        Web  / PDF      Vol. V, Page 6
Graves are unmarked, but remembered in this small Metis Cemetery near Lake Metogoshe
Places Link

Observations of a War Bride     Web  / PDF    Vol.  V, Page 12
Vera Booker was one of 48,000 young women who came to Can- ada as a war bride during and after the Second World.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:      Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

The Belgian Connection       Web  / PDF      Vol.  V, Page 21
Ab's claim to fame was as a chronicler of the times through his many articles for the local papers. 

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.

Prisoners of War – Harvest Help       Web /  PDF       Vol. V, Page 39
The prisoner farmhands were lightly guarded and often permitted to go shopping or attend church.  An unknown number stayed after release and became Canadians.

The Case of the Nazi (?) Farmhand      Web /  PDF     Vol. V, Page 40
Why is there a sketch of Adolph Hitler on a vintage threshing machine near Pierson?




Theme:  Cross Cultural Learning Format: Radio Broadcast


#1: Goodbye at Sourisford 
Charlie West felt invisible at Sourisford, before other began to arrive.
Date: 1880   Place: Sourisford   : Municipality:  Two Borders    
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources   

Themes
 Trails & Rivers  / Fur Trade / Dakota, Nakota & First Nations  / Community Cooperation & Organization

#2: Bridge At Bunclody  /   Railway Construction /
Almost all trains, he said, went east and west, but this one was going north and south, making new connections and hopefully opening markets for us and our neighbours.

Themes
 Trails & Rivers     Railways     Settler Pre-Railroad   Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Commerce & Work

#6: A Deal's a Deal /   Treaties
How did the Treaties come about?
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes
  Metis & Mixed Blood      Dakota, Nakota & First Nations    Community Cooperation & Organization     
 Homesteading / Agriculture          Government Influence

#8: Prairie Riches /   Photos by Hime
Observations by the first Prairie Photographer
#11: Sam Long - Laundry Man 
Many Chinese men came to Canada for railway building work, and many stayed on to do other things.
 #22: Deloraine's Dr.Thornton  /  Doctor As Needed  
Dr. Robert Thornton was there for the  folks of the Deloraine area - wherever called, and, whatever the weather.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

Trails & Rivers      Metis & Mixed Blood      Health         Cross Cultural Learning       Biographies &Characters       Animals

25: Sankey Explores the World
Sankey's  first sea voyage was to China and Australia, at age 16. He later joiuned the crew of the Cutty Sark, aclipper famous for tales of munity and murder!  
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
 
Themes

Settler - Pre-Railroad    Community Cooperation & Organization     Cross Cultural Learning  Biographies &Characters    War & Conflict

Events & Adventures

#42: Hutterites
"We're Anabaptists, which means we're Christians but aren't Catholic or Protestant."
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

 Community Cooperation & Organization    Schools & Teachers      Churches & Religion     Children      Homesteading / Agriculture     Cross Cultural Learning     War & Conflict    Government Influence

#43: Buffalo Hunting / Buffalo Summer Hunt 
 Imagine, riding, full gallop within a tornado of stampeding buffalo, your knees steering your horse, filling your musket on the run, your mouth full of shot and your horn swith gunpowder, firing, reloading and firing again, perhaps 20 times in one run. It's a highly skilled, daring and disciplined affair.
#49: Objecting To War
The Mennonite religion teaches that we must not do violence to others; that it's wrong to fight in wars; which makes it easy to think they we're soft on Hitler. But in reality they reject any authority that uses violence.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

  Women Leaders       Churches & Religion    Cross Cultural Learning    Biographies & Characters
War & Conflict   Government Influence

 #56: Gone To The Dogs  / Dog Training in Broomhill
Each summer whole families, mainly from the southern United States,  showed up in Broomhill. The local terain and climate was ideal for training hunting dogs.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

Community Cooperation & Organization    Homesteading / Agriculture  Cross Cultural Learning   Biographies &Characters     Animals
 
#59: Belgian Horses  /  Belgian Immigration in the Deloraine area.
The Government of Canada was advertising land. And new beginnings were what Belgian farmers needed. The open prairie sparkled in our minds as we prepared to come. Good thing we didn't know how rustic it'd be. And how we'd miss our big black horses. W
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

     Churches & Religion    Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Children     Homesteading / Agriculture   Cross Cultural Learning  Biographies & Characters         Government Influence

62: Smallpox  
In 1492 smallpox became endemic on the Euro-Asian and African continents. Residents there carried the disease but were immune to its effects. Noth American were not.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

Fur Trade    Dakota, Nakota & First Nations       Health     Government Influence    Animals


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