St. Vincent Memories

The beginning of the trip - Taking off from Pembina, to sell a year's worth of furs... The end of the trip - Arriving at St. Paul, ...

I have written about Jean Baptiste Wilkie (1803-1886) before, but only in his role as leader of the great annual Pembina buffalo hunts. B...

QUOTE: Pierre de la Vérendrye had heard of a region to the south much frequented by the Assiniboine Indians, who had conducted Radisson to t...

There was always reason to fear danger from an Indian attack in hunting on the plains. In 1856, the Pembina hunters were attacked by the Y...

FOUNDING OF PEMBINA Pembina Post Established The Park River Post having been abandoned May 4, 1801, and the Langlois party having joined Hen...

This historical essay, one of many written by hundreds of Red River Valley students, is about a local area family many of us know first-hand...

Probably the earliest predecessors to the lyceum in Red River land were magician shows held at Pembina and other lower Red River settlement...

I am once again on the research trail for more stories about our area. One such story I have come across, is the mystery of the manuscript...

This story was told to Mr. LaFromboise by his father Louis LaFromboise. It is about an orphan Metis by the name of Joe LaFoyee... This orpha...

"I could see for miles and miles, and the prairie was black with them, and only here and there I could see spots of snow...there were s...

Marie-Anne Gaboury Lagimodière : Louis Reil's grandmother The party arrived at Red River in the midst of a prairie fire, an annual e...

The Red River Buffalo hunt was unique in North America. In the story of the westward march of civilization across the continent no other pe...

There have been some strange instigators for war over the course of human history. In North America, for example, a small war was fought ove...

Dear Readers , some of you may wonder, where in the world does this woman find this stuff ? Well, let me tell you, I find this stuff in the ...