St. Vincent Memories

Before Pembina, there was Vermont... Soon after joining up in 1870, Private William James Kneeshaw, along with his brother, Sergeant Ebeneze...

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

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

At the St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church cemetery, May 4, 2016 While out in the field taking photographs with Troy Larso n on...

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

While nothing was really mentioned of the history of the depot , it was difficult, yet good to read this article about Noyes today.  A very ...

The little border town of Emerson, Manitoba, was a surreal place to be in April 1997.  Behind the permanent dike that had been doubled in...

Originally issued in 1888, this is an 1891 copy of a Declaration of Intention   [Courtesy:   Jim Benjaminson ] T his Declaration of In...

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...

An image I found online for sale, of the Emerson port-of-entry, circa 1947 L ocals would be waved through without stopping back then.  Ev...

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

S muggling contraband is a long tradition along borders, including the border area around St. Vincent ... Bold Opium Smugglers Confis...

H.R. Bill 814 makes St. Vincent's case D id you know that at one time, St. Vincent was a port-of-entry? After you read the origi...

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

I have written about Les Eddington several times.  While doing research on another subject, I came across this rather dashing photo of him...

North West Mounted Police trooper from 1870s [Artist:  R.J. Marrion - Canadian War Museum] Fort Dufferin was originally established in ...

The video above was brought to my attention by Bill Ash the other day. In the interim, Bill found out from Clarence Bingham the scoop on ...

I reported on this about a year ago, and now we're finally seeing progress. Groundbreaking has begun on the major construction pro...

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...

Huron City - Location: 485950N by 0971400W - was a real place that no longer exists. I grew up just a stone's throw geographically-s...