St. Vincent Memories

When Pembina decided to throw an “after threshing celebration” on September 27, 1919, Lt. Vernon Omlie of Grafton was booked to “...give a...

Location of Fort Pembina:   All of section 16, 17 and 18. Township one hundred and sixty three (63), North Range Number 51, West of the 5th ...

Portrait of Nash, Compendium of   History & Biography of North Dakota, Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1900 W ILLIAM C. NASH enj...

I plan on researching a lot of the images in the above set, and telling expanded stories about them, but that takes times - a LOT of time...

S ome of the graves that were originally in the Fort Pembina Cemetery. In anticipation of Fort Pembina (1870-1895) closing, the graves we...

Father Goiffon I n 1861, Joseph Goiffon , a missionary at Pembina , wrote that a Dakota runner passed through the area on his way to th...

SS Anson Northrup / Source:  Archives of Manitoba A song about steamboating on the Red River , that mentions Fort Pembina... Anson No...

F ound amongst  archived auctions comes this image and description of letters sold in 2007 that were written by residents of Fort Pembina ...

A pass was regularly made out for a Non-Com and file to go to Pembina , Dakota, for the mail. Passes were also granted at intervals to exc...

Company 876, 20th Infantry, U.S. Army, Fort Pembina, Dakota Territory Source:  State Historical Society of North Dakota Earlier this mon...

Joseph O. Lemay [Photo courtesy: Manitoba Historical Society] Joseph Lemay , Esq. - Judge, postmaster and collector of United States cu...

The images below are from the 1870 Fort Pembina census. There are several familiar names in the census - Joseph Rolette , Norman Kittson , W...

I started this post to be about Major E. A. C. Hatch 1 (sometimes referred to as Edward Hatch, or Edwin Hatch...) But a much more interes...

Men's Barracks, Lower Fort Garry - Winter of 1857-1858 The Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment men's barracks as seen from the officer...

Ezra Woodruff was the first post surgeon at the new Fort Pembina , arriving in May 1870 as the post officially opened, with the first post ...

EPILOGUE Charley Brown was sheriff of the Pembina area, Dakota Territory from 1875 until his death in 1884. The hangings by the Fort Pembi...

From the Daily Nor'Wester, August 16, 1895 From Frohne & Son History Military : Established July 8, 1870. Located a mile and a half ...

The heavy rains of early September did nothing to stop the wild prairie fires of October. A constant blue haze filled the sky for the first ...