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#1: Goodbye
at Sourisford
Charlie West felt invisible at Sourisford,
before others began to arrive.
Date: 1880 Place: Sourisford
: Municipality: Two Borders
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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
#3:
Mrs.
Weightman
From Scorland to Dand - a pioneer woman's success story.
Radio
Broadcast
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Themes
Trails
& Rivers
Settler
- Pre-Railroad
Women
Leaders Children
Homesteading
/
Agriculture
Biographies
&Characters
#4:
Whitewater
Lake
Change is the only constant when it come to this large
shallow body of water.
Radio
Broadcast
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Themes
Trails & Rivers
Fur Trade Dakota,
Nakota & First
Nations
Settler - Pre-Railroad
Children
#5:
Blizzard at West
Brenda
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."
Themes
Community
Cooperation &
Organization Schools
& Teachers
Women
Leaders Children
Events
& Adventures

#6:
A Deal's a Deal / Treaties
How did the Treaties come about?
#10:
The Sisters at Grande Clairiere
Father Gaire a Catholic priest from France
to establish a mission in Manitoba. He chose the site of
French speaking Metis community south of Oak Lake and was welcomed.
Themes
Metis
& Mixed
Blood
Schools & Teachers Women
Leaders Children
Biographies &Characters.
Government Influence
#11:
Sam
Long -
Laundry Man
Many Chinese men came to Canada for railway building
work, and many stayed on to do other things.
#12:
Kicking up our Heels at Billy's
Point / The
Metigoshe Metis Community /
Billy Gosslin was a hunter and a trapper - and
a Red River Metis. He had moved to Lake Metigoshe from North Dakota and
settled on the west side of Turtle Mountain.
#19:
Eaton's
Catalogue / Even
The Schoolhouse Bell
We’ve been able to
order everything from
fashion to furnishings through the Eaton’s Catalogue – ever since it
first came out in 1884, just when this part of the province was filling
up with settlers.
#20:
The
Empress of Ireland (A Prairie
Riverboat)
Folks
in Coulter would ask what is our local blacksmith
doing building a riverboat in the middle of the prairies?
#21
Sitting
Eagle
A visit from Sitting Eagle, the grandson of
H'damani, the
leader of IR #60, was an event many a child would remember.
Radio
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Themes
Dakota,
Nakota & First
Nations /
Children / Land
Knowledge & Archaeology / Cross
Cultural Learning /
Biographies &Characters / Government
Influence
#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.
#28
Fiesty Sisters / The Beynons
Raised and
educated near Hartney, Lillian Beynon became the Assistant
Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press Eeekly - with her own column. Francis
was the Editor of the women's page of the Grain Growers Guide.
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Themes
Schools
& Teachers / Churches
& Religion / Women
Leaders /
Commerce & Work /
Biographies &Characters
#29
Walter
Thomas - Before Dinner
Sometimes survical is about, choices
Themes
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Trails & Rivers /
Settler - Pre-Railroad / Community
Cooperation & Organization / Innovation,
Tools &
Entrepreneurs / Health / Land
Knowledge & Archaeology / Biographies
&Characters / Events
& Adventures
#30: Walter
Thomas - After Dinner
After a freak accident, some good fortune and a bit of
kitchen table surgery saved his life.
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Themes
Trails & Rivers /
Settler - Pre-Railroad / Land
Knowledge & Archaeology /
Biographies &Characters

#31:
Ready to Dig at GainsboroughCreek
People farmed in Southwest
Manitoba many centuroes ago. They farmed the same fields beside
Gainsborough Creek for over 200 years - growing corn, squash and beans.
#32:
The Nakota
The Nakota were frequently allies with explorers and
fur traders. They enjoyed the benefits they got from trading but they
were vulnerable to deceases Europeans brought.
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Themes
Fur Trade Dakota,
Nakota & First
Nations
Schools & Teachers Land
Knowledge & Archaeology Cross
Cultural Learning
War & Conflict

#33: The Rats
Of
Cranmer
The collapse of an elevator in Cranmer could have been
dangerous, but there was some warning.
Radio
Broadcast
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Themes
Railways
Community Cooperation &
Organization
Homesteading
/
Agriculture
Animals Events
& Adventures
#34:
Miss Pauline
(Johnson)
The celebrated poet toured extensively across
Canada. She even came to Napinka, where she made quite an impression.
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Broadcast
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Themes
Dakota,
Nakota & First
Nations
Women Leaders Children Cross
Cultural Learning Biographies
&Characters War
& Conflict

#35:
The
Dakota
In
the 1870's a delegation of Dakota-Sioux led by
Chief H'damani sought a reserve on Turtle Mountain. They had
lived there in peace since 1862.
#36:
Ninety
-
Acre Island (On Max Lake)
Max Lske was a recreational site,
sawmill site... and for some a home.
#37:
George
Morton / The Cheese King
The name of the Municipality of Boissevain pays tribute to George
Morton. He came to Turtle Mountain area in 1878 -
and immediately saw the potential for large-scale cheese production -
and other things.
#38:
Mennonites
In 1924 a Mennonite family arrived in Whitwater to
join other who had decided to start a new life in Canada.
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Broadcast
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Themes
Railways
Churches & Religion Women
Leaders
Cross Cultural Learning Biographies
&Characters War
& Conflict Government
Influence
#39:
Turtle Mountain
Reserve #60
The smallest Indian Reserve in Manitoba seemed to be
doing well until the powers that be decided it should be "surrendered".
#40:
Mouse
Valley
River valleys offer shelter, water, and wood to
settler, hunter and traveller alike. The Souris River has been all that
and more to the people of our region - for a long time.
#41:
Alma
Dale / The Chain
Lakes Friends
Friends got the name “Quakers”
because of the
way folks shake when profoundly moved by the Spirit.
Mrs. Alma Dale from Ontario came to the Chain Lakes area as a Minister
iand made quite an impact.
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Community
Cooperation &
Organization
Churches & Religion
Women Leaders
Homesteading
/
Agriculture
Biographies & Characters Celebration
Animals
#42:
Hutterites
"We're Anabaptists, which means we're Christians but aren't Catholic or
Protestant."
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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.
#44:
Winter
Hunt
Hunting buffalo at Turlte Mountain in the winter presents some
challenges.
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Broadcast
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Themes
Fur
Trade
Metis & Mixed
Blood Dakota,
Nakota & First
Nations
Innovation, Tools &
Entrepreneurs
Animals

#45:
Mountainside
Mountainside is one of several
stops on the Lyleton branch. That railway is fondly remembered as the
lifeline of
small communities.
#46:
The Doctrine of Discovery
How did Europeans
get the land from Indigenous Nations? There was one official
religion in Europe at that time, so that church had a lot of power. Its
leader
proclaimed the “Doctrine of Discovery” giving European Christian
nations the right to claim virtually all of North America.
#47:
My Jim Dandy
Jim first moved to Pierson from Ontario with his birth family in 1891.
Six years later, at the age of 31, he built and operated Pierson’s
first hardware store
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Broadcast
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Themes
Settler
- Pre-Railroad Innovation,
Tools &
Entrepreneurs Women
Leaders
Health
Commerce
& Work
Biographies & Characters
#48 War
Training
The
Commonwealth Air
Training Field near Hartney was an important part of the WW2 war
effort..
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Broadcast Intro
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Themes
Community Cooperation &
Organization Land
Knowledge & Archaeology
War & Conflict Government
Influence
#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.
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Themes
Women
Leaders
Churches & Religion Cross
Cultural Learning Biographies
& Characters
War & Conflict Government
Influence

#50:
Jimmy
Jock
Most Westman
pioneers arrived from
the east,
Ontario mostly. James (Jimmy) Jock went to BC first then
travelled east
again. He is the first resident of Minto cemetery.
#51:
War
Bride
As a young English woman during WWII, Vera
Booker's parents
forbade her to do anything with the Canadian soldiers stationed nearby.
She didn't listen. That's how she ended up in Waskada!
#52:
Mountain
Mill
Those sod houses prairie settlers built seem quaint
from a distance. They served their purpose but settlers near
Turtle Mountain had a suuply of wood close at hand and it wasn't
long before The Max Lake sawmill was servoing the commimity.
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Themes
Settler - Pre-Railroad
Innovation, Tools &
Entrepreneurs
Commerce & Work Biographies
&Characters
Government Influence

#53:
Mission School
The Christian Endeavor Society operated a school on Turtle Mountain
Reserve for a short while in the mid 1890's.
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Broadcast
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Themes
Dakota, Nakota & First
Nations
Community Cooperation &
Organization Schools
& Teachers Churches
& Religion
Children
Government Influence
#54:
Rest
Rooms Designed By Women
The Women's
Institute set out to improve life for
rural women. Establishing Rest Rooms for women and children was a high
priority. We owe them thanks.
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Broadcast
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Themes
Community
Cooperation &
Organization Women
Leaders
Children Celebration Government
Influence
#55:
Mining the Mountain
The Salter and Henderson mines , near
Goodlands, became the most successful in Manitoba. They were separated
by a barbed-wire fence.
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Themes
Railways Innovation,
Tools &
Entrepreneurs Children Land
Knowledge & Archaeology Commerce
& Work
Biographies & Characters War
& Conflict

#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.
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Themes
Community
Cooperation & Organization Homesteading
/
Agriculture Cross
Cultural Learning Biographies
&Characters Animals
#57:
The
Drowsy Cow
Railway accidents were common and sometimes dangerous. Sometimes
livestock was involved.
#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.
#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.
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Belonging
These stories are inspired by the 5 Vantage Points books written by
Teyana Neufeld and Ken Storie. We (David Neufeld with help from Betty
Sawatsky) have adapted those written versions for radio and podcasts.
We found added information about personalities in the stories from
local history books, interviews with elders and the Manitoba Heritage
Society website. And so many of these stories are told from a
historical person's point of view.
We have three aims in telling these stories.
1. For local history to be compelling; encouraging us to appreciate
this land, its people and their stories.
2. For the voicing of a variety of points of view
(vantage points) to inspire cooperation as a region.
3. For stories of resilience and resistance to be represented; helping
us move respectfully, confidently into uncertain times.
Enjoy
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Mountain–Souris Plains Heritage
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