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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". Walter
Thomas - Against All Odds Web
/ PDF
Vol.
IV, Page 42
t was in late March 1880. A spell of warm weather had melted much of the snow, when Walter set out for Winnipeg to get more provisions. Vantage Points Flashbacks Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Walter Thomas - Kitchen Table Surgery Web / PDF Vol. IV, Page 43 He learned later that it was fortunate that muzzle was close to the arm and the flame from it burned the flesh and arteries so that very little blood escaped. What the Rats of Cranmer Knew Web / PDF Vol. IV, Page 50 The collapse of an elevator in Cranmer could have been dangerous, but there was some warning. Vantage Points Flashbacks Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Places Link The Home Bank Scandal Hits Lyleton Web / PDF Vol. IV, Page 24 On or about August of 1923, Stan Hill, the Manager of the Lyleton Branch of the Home Bank of Canada received a short telegram, delivered in code. It read; "Cease business, close the door." Places Link 1885 - A Troubled Summer Web / PDF Vol. IV, Page 46 With the benefit of hindsight we know that any escalation of that conflict was unlikely. But the settlers in rural Manitoba didn’t know that. Murder for a Homestead Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 37 Two murders, a national manhunt and a near escape. It all started on a farm near Boissevain. Métis
Bison Hunts Web
/ PDF
Vol.
I, Page 15
The Red River Métis began their organised bison hunts soon after 1820. It didn't take long for the hunts to become a central feature of the Métis way of life as they provided the Métis with their principle source of income for several decades. Why Locomotives Had Cow Catchers Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 32 A 1948 derailment in Medora was caused by a sleeping cow on the track. Vantage Points Flashbacks Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Crime and Punishment in Hartney Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 35 Hartney’s first (and only?) murder mystery. Whats on in Melita This Week? Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 53 The Melita Opera House was one of several venues offering a wide variety of touring entertainers. Web Link Gone to the Dogs Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 38 In 1955 the Broomhill Curling Club received permission to sponsor the All American Field Trails complete with championship stakes. An Elephant Story – By Jerry Drier Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 33 Vantage Points Flashbacks: Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources A Disturbance in the Classroom - By Edith King Web / PDF Vol. IV , Page 12 At the blackboard the young teacher determinedly was writing an exercise for the class. From behind her came a sudden but definite flip, flip, flip of an inkwell. The Blizzard - By Marion Robinson Web / PDF Vol. IV , Page 48 It was a terrifying night. There was a long string of shaky stove pipes almost the length of the room, and with each terrific impact of the wind they shuddered and groaned. Vantage Points Flashbacks: Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Naming Medora Web / PDF Vol. V, Page 16 Who choses the name of a new town?
#5:
Blizzard at West
Brenda / Winter
Storms
A young teacher and her students spent a long night in the schoolhouse. "The snow hit us with such force we were gasping. I couldn't even see my hand, stretched out." Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources
#9
John Pritchard / Barely
Alive
A Fur Trade Era survival story. Radio Br 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 Places #29 Walter Thomas - Before Dinner Sometimes survical is about, choices Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources #30: Walter Thomas - After Dinner After a freak accident, some good fortune and a bit of kitchen table surgery saved his life. Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources #33: The Rats Of Cranmer The collapse of an elevator in Cranmer could have been dangerous, but there was some warning. Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources #34: Miss Pauline (Johnson) The celebrated poet toured extensively across Canada. She even came to Napinka, where she made quite an impression. #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. Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources #44: Winter Hunt Hunting buffalo at Turlte Mountain in the winter presents some challenges. Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources #57: The Drowsy Cow Railway accidents were common and sometimes dangerous. Sometimes livestock was involved. Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources Places #58: Elephants at Melita It was around 1950. A Circus had visited Melita and was was heading to its next stop,when one of the trucks got stuck on a muddy road. Fortunately there were elephants to help out. Radio Broadcast | Illustrated Text | Resources
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