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...
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...
When Richard and Maria Bobier, aged 20 and 18, decided to make a new life in Canada, they could not have known the land that waited for them. A vast landscape of promise, they had decided to make their home there. Prior to getting to what would one...
Herb Dobbyn, an early member of the Oddfellows Lodge in Melita When a town comes into being, those who move to the new community want to join in common causes. This can mean joining town council, the fire department, or any number of the...
As the railway made its way across Canada, small communities began to pop up along the route it took. From Ontario all the way out to British Columbia, thousands of communities grew. Some lasted, some did not, but all owe their existence to the...
Born as Ernest Edward Foster on Feb. 26, 1882 in England, Foster spent his early years working as a proprietor of a public house for several years. It was in England, at the age of 23 that he would marry his wife Francis Harper. Four years later...
The 1935 Melita Hockey Club Hockey is as Canadian as things get. As soon as communities pop up, there is a hockey team soon to follow. In fact, you would be hard pressed not to find a community in Canada that has not had a hockey arena or a hockey...