Resource Collections

Documents A selection of writing taken from Local Histories, Pioneer Reminscence and Newspapers Newspaper Clippings Selected Items from the "Big City" press arranged by date - 1882 - 1907  Places A quick overview of where things happened

Photos A collection of Wakopa area photos from a variety of sources. Maps Wakopa area edits from maps dating from 1884. People A list of influential people - with brief notes.

Websites & Links


False Starts - The BS&HB Railway



Bibliography

Beckoning Hills Revisited - Pioneer Settlement Turtle Mountain Souris - Basin Areas - Boissevain History Book Committee, 1981

In View of Turtle Hill - A survey of the history of southwestern Manitoba to 1900, Norman Ernest Wright, Deloraine Times Publishing, 1951(online at Peel's Prairie Provinces)

Then and Now - Stories from Early Days of Killarney and Turtle Mountain, 1882 - 1957

Stories of Pioneer Days at Killarney: Published by the Women's Institute of Killarney. Reprinted in 2007 by the Oak Ridge Women's Institute

Trails and Crossroads To Killarney - The story of pioneer days in Killarney and Turtle Mountain District, 1882 – 1967

Reflections - Turtle Mountain Municipality and Killarney, 1882- 1982.

More Reflections: 1982 – 2007

Vantages Points  I, II, & IV, The Turtle Mountain Souris Plains Heritage Association.  2009, 2013, 2015

J.A.V. David Museum Documents Collection, Killarney Mb.

Images:  Ken Storie and the Vantage Points Collection, J.A.V. David Museum Collection and as noted.

Newspaper Clippings – The Brandon Sun, The Winnipeg Times - as noted

Personal Interviews: The Vantage Points and Boissevain Morton Library and Archives Oral History Collection