We have come to the last of our first five premiers of Manitoba. After this, we look at the first five premiers of Newfoundland. So, for number five, we have the man who led the province for nine years, through four elections, and remains the eighth...
We have now reached our fourth premier of Manitoba, and the province is only four years old. That is a lot of premiers in a very short amount of time. This premier would be the first to serve more than two years, and the first to go through an...
The land that today is Grunthal was the territory of several Indigenous groups through the recent centuries. The Cree, Anishinaabe and Sioux occupied the land initially. As fur traders came through, the Metis began to live on the land and take part...
While Jules Leger had great potential as Governor General, the stroke he suffered only six months after he came to the post greatly limited his ability to serve. When it came time for a new Governor General in 1979, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
Before any Europeans ever set foot in what would be Glenboro, the area of the future community was the land occupied by the Sioux and the Anishinaabe. They would follow the bison herds that came to the area, which formed an important part of their...
Often when I do these episodes, I am at the mercy of the resources at my disposal. Unfortunately for Oakbank, I was limited with what I could find and this will unfortunately be a shorter episode as a result. Before Europeans arrived in the area...
While the construction of the railroad through British Columbia and the Canadian Shield was extremely difficult, the portion in between those two segments was a completely different story. The prairie portion of the railroad was a cake walk compared...
The Indigenous Before Europeans arrived in the area that would be Manitoba, the landscape was dominated by the bison who moved in great herds. Following the bison were the Indigenous, who had arrived in the area thousands of years ago as the...
Indigenous and Early History The first people to live in the area are believed to be the Assiniboine and Stoney people who came from the area of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Most often, they would follow the bison herds that moved through the area in...
An early store in Milfford In July of 1879, two men came out to the area that would one day be Millford, ready to survey the area and possibly find a new site for a sawmill and town. E.C. Caddy and D.L.S Huston journeyed to the west, with the task...