St. Vincent Memories

[Note — General Manager McDougal of the Pershing Way [Association] , who was for a short time Publicity Commissioner of the Jefferson High...

Pioneer Express January 3, 1908 The New Year was ushered in by the bells of the city echoing with those of St. Vincent and Emerson, a...

West Lynne, Manitoba townsite, today. The Story of West Lynne and the First Customs House in Western Canada  by James McClelland To ...

"We can talk good roads," he continued, "until we are blue in the face if there is not that great highway running between ...

Sgt. Fred Bailey [Source:  RCMP Veterans Association, Vancouver Division] L et me introduce you to an ordinary man who happened to...

Photo Source:  James McClelland T he team in the picture above is from the early 1960s. It was made up of players from Emerson , Domin...

Huron City (1883 Plat Map) Source:  HistoricMapWorks.com I 've written about Huron City a few times here before; and of course C...

Pembina’s brief moment of world attention, then, was part of the demise of American innocence.   - "Earth Angels Rising", by Te...

O n September 19th of this year, Kim McAllister Anderson and I took a trip up north, into Manitoba, Canada. Emerson , to be exact. To...

Although mislabeled, the video below is indeed a very brief clip of a Ferry Command operation, towing planes across the US/Canadian border ...

Metis Rider; note the beaded saddle blanket... ...The following month, the annual horse race known as the Dufferin races, was held in E...

T he article below shares a typical yet extraordinary story of one WWI veteran.  His name was Amos Mayse, and among the many things he ...

B ack in the day, just as now, lawmen worked together between Canada and America.  There was less red tape then, although that was there,...

A "Rye Communion" was held in Christ Church during Prohibition! I stumbled across a mention of St. Vincent in a Google Books s...

rom around 1936 to 1956, Emerson obtained its power across the US / Canada border from a long 2400V distribution circuit originating from P...

One of the clearest copies of this photo that I've ever seen! F.T. Bradley I n 1871, a customs house was opened on the west sid...

T his appeared on the editorial pages of the Winnipeg Free Press recently... In your editorial Radicals always in our midst (March 16), I...

  A typical brothel 'menu' around the turn of the century - Click to see clear copy - [Warning:  Graphic Language] HEADLINE:  ...