Theme: Women Leaders
Vantage Points Stories (Books, Online & pdf)
Vantage Point Flashbacks (Radio Broadcasts)
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Theme: Women Leaders 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

Lorna Smith Nature Centre      Web  / PDF      Vol. I, Page  41
The Lorna Smith Nature Centre just southeast of Boissevain was established in 1983 by the Turtle Mountain Conservation District as part of the reservoir project.

Volume 3

Shirley Colquhoun        Web  / PDF      Vol.  III, Page 36
Samuel Colquhoun was the first person in Canada to take advantage of recreational potential at Lake Metigoshe.

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

A. E. Hill Store: The Hart-Cam Museum       Web  / PDF      Vol.  III, Page 47
The 120 year old building that today houses the Hart-Cam Museum spent most of its life serving as a general store. It later became a restaurant, museum . . . and Hollywood film set? Yes indeed – not only once, but twice!

Volume 4
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.

Little Schools on the Prairie       Web  / PDF    Vol. IV   , Page  16
Single young women were the sought-after choice as teachers. In fact many jurisdictions specifically ruled out married women in the position.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:       Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Tena's Boarding House     Web  / PDF     Vol.  IV, Page 24
In today’s world how many people come home from work only to face another round of domestic chores? Not at Tena’s.

The Edwards Sisters - Business Partners     Web  / PDF     Vol.  IV, Page 31
What did Mr. and Mrs. Edwards think when Alice and Ida, at quite a young age, took the unusual step of moving to a nearby community and going into business?
Vantage Points Flashbacks:    Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

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

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

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 Local Egg Grading Station              Web  / PDF     Vol.  V, Page 28
The Melita Creamery had 6 full-time egg handlers, who worked almost day and night during the peak season.
Podcast Link

Nurse Halladay and Boissevain’s First Hospitals      Web  / PDF      Vol.  V, Page 31
When the time came to open the doors on this new and much appreciated service, Nurse Halladay was appointed Matron.

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.

The Rural Press - A Survival Story             Web  / PDF       Vol.  V, Page 45
A new village might have been considered to have “arrived” when it had a paper. For quite a while some towns had competing papers.

The Riverside Canucks of Baseball Fame       Web  / PDF      Vol. V, Page 46
The Riverside Canucks played for over 40 years at Riverside Park, on the banks of the Souris River north of Minto. They are in the Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame.
Places Link

Getting Ready for the Christmas Concert     Web  / PDF      Vol. V, Page 47
Ask someone who attended a one-room rural school about the memorable times and you can be pretty sure the conversation will include reminiscence about Christmas concerts.



Theme: Women Leaders Format: Radio Broadcast


#3: Mrs. Weightman 
From Scorland to Dand - a pioneer woman's success story.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
Themes
Trails & Rivers    Settler - Pre-Railroad    Women Leaders   Children     Homesteading / Agriculture   Biographies &Characters

#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


#7: The Purple Hill Beef Ring
"My father called a meeting and 20 families agreed to take turns offering the group one steer a year."
#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

#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.

#23: Mrs.Doctor Indeed 

We women got together last year, 1910, to form the Deloraine Women's Institute - and I'm its first president. I chuckled when the newspaper declared “Mrs. Robert J Thornton (Dr. Thornton's wife) First WI president!”
 Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

            Community Cooperation & Organization        Women Leaders       Biographies &Characters        

24: Farmer Mary at Dand
A different sort of pioneer story
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

      Settler - Pre-Railroad   Community Cooperation & Organization     Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Women Leaders
Children       Homesteading / Agriculture          Government Influence



#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.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

 Schools & Teachers    Churches & Religion      Women Leaders        Commerce & Work          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.
#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
 Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

            Settler - Pre-Railroad    Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs  Women Leaders    Health      Commerce & Work    
Biographies & Characters

#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!
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

   Railways             Women Leaders      Cross Cultural Learning      Biographies &Characters        War & Conflict

#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.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

  Community Cooperation & Organization     Women Leaders    Children     Celebration    Government Influence


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