Pivotal Events in Arden / Lansdowne



The Pivotal Events Concept...

A community's  heritage can be expressed through a careful analysis of Places, People and Events. The Historic Resources Branch has developed Pivotal Events Projects as one component of the three core collections that, along with Special Places and Notable People, will help communties protect and use their heritage resources to best advantage.  

With Lansdown'e excellent local history volumes as our guide, and with previous heritage projects and local museums as  a resource, we create a comprehensive illustrated timeline that puts a community's pivotal events into context and renders them in an entertaining and accessible fashion.

Pivotal Events in Arden & Lansdowne




An Illustrated Timeline

The following collection of dates and activities has been drawn from Lansdowne’s excellent local history books:

Legacies of Lansdowne – A Sequel – The Municipality of Lansdowne 1884-1984 R.M. of Lansdowne History Committee
The Lansdowne Story 1867 – 1967: “Grain, Gravel, Growth”, by A.F. (Dick) McKenzie.

Additonal material comes from the collection of Manitoba Newspapers at www.manitoba.ca
and from the Archives of Manitoba

A timeline is a useful way to establish a community’s development, and a good way to note its highlights. All of this information can be used to develop the kind of content that is helpful in describing a community’s history through short, effective and accurate texts that will be appropriate for educational support materials, plaques, website content, and myriad other follow-up projects.  

The dates and activities have been presented in a decade-by-decade format, which allows us to relive the past through the lens of the flow of time; but it is important to note that pivotal events can also be broadly grouped by major chronological periods in our history attached to primary activities of a given era.


Thus we might look at the history of Lansdowne through the lens of these categories:

•    First Peoples 
•    Fur Trade: 1795 - 1856
•    Pioneers: 1880-1889
•    Community Consolidation: 1890 - 1904
•    Community Incorporation: 1905-1913
•    Wars, Roaring 20s and Dirty 30s: 1914-1945
•    Post-War and 1950s: 1946-1959


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