St. Vincent Memories

W onderful news arrived in today's mail.  The work here on this blog has been recognized and awarded the Excellence in Local History aw...

From early on our area was unique,  geographically & politically [Click to enlarge] I t is often thought that the title was secured ...

I don't know details on how farmers around my hometown area (Kittson County and Pembina County) contributed to the efforts described as...

Recently I updated readers about the status of the Red River Valley Website , an early and important website documenting my hometown region...

Wow, the news keeps coming on all the websites and history that our area encompasses, and changes to them. The following news is extremely ...

The image above is from an envelope I have in my possession. It is in the upper left-hand corner representing the return address of Charles...

From MINNESOTA GEOGRAPHIC NAMES : Their Origin and Historical Significance by Warren Upham (Minnesota Historical Society, 1920/1969) Carib...

This map shows the main trails for the fur trade era in our region. Collectively, they're commonly known as the Red River Trails . From...

The Centre for Rupert’s Land 1 Studies at The University of Winnipeg will be hosting its 2010 Colloquium from the 19th to the 22nd of May,...

To the cry of " La commerce est libre " from the armed Metis stationed outside the courtroom, the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay...

The precipitation climate of 1807-8 was quite different, however, with more frequent occurrence of snow and rain during November through Mar...

Yes, that darn Red River of the North is out of its bed again! I went walking today and was shocked to see the river way out of its bed, up...

Weather cool and pleasant; the mercury forty-eight degrees at sunrise. This morning we rode a few miles out of town, and met the dragoons a...

Alexander Henry, known by some as Henry the Younger to distinguish him from his well-known uncle, was a prominent figure in Canada's No...

This is the first of several posts taken from first-person accounts of a mid-nineteenth century expedition expedition started out in late A...

Mark Twain, due to financial problems, undertook a world tour in 1895. The tour began in America, and after an initial stop in Cleveland, pr...

With the recent flood still firmly in everyone's memory (and for some, it's still a very current situation, in the northern end of t...

To anyone trying to access the Red River Valley website in the last few days, you will have noticed it was down. The good news, is it's...

Musher Odin Jorgenson of Grand Marais, Minn., arrives on schedule with his team at Frog Point near Buxton, N.D., Saturday during the Red Riv...

I'm excited about the upcoming Red River Sled Dog Derby, having written about it a few weeks back, because of its strong connection to ...