St. Vincent Memories

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 ...

Francis J. Dickens, second from the right From Wayne Arseny, former mayor of Emerson: I think of the latrine at Fort Dufferin and once...

Percy's grave is in the St. Vincent Cemetery Sgt Major Percy John Edkins U.S. Marine Corps O n May 18, 1917, the Selective Serv...

I just got my copy of Jill Johnson's newest book, Little Minnesota in World War II:  The Stories Behind 140 Fallen Heroes from Minnes...

W e are in the midst of the Centennial years of WWI . Many men from Kittson County fought in the "Great War", or the "War to ...

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

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

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

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

ABOUT THIS ALBUM:  Hetty Walker lent an old scrapbook to Jamie Rustad Meagher.  Jamie is a fellow local historian, and she was interested ...

A s a youngster growing up in Pembina, I had a second town - St. Vincent . Wallace & Matilda Cameron's Home during 1950 flood [...

There were many mothers & grandmothers across America like Mrs. Lang during WWII  [Image Courtesy:  Lang family  descendants]       ...

Adz :  The murder weapon G ilbert Godon has appeared in this blog before - the first time, as a character in a novel based on fact ; ...

A typical signal station setup in the 1880s T here were many brutal winters in the 19th century up around my hometown area.  Some wer...

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...

Old City Hall in Pembina (1934) - Does anyone  know when it was built? [Source: SHSND 's Digital Horizons ] Until recently when a ...

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

'Casualty' does not always mean 'Killed in Action' It can also mean 'Wounded' - I knew at least one of  the men ...

I n the early part of the 19th century, what would later be commonly referred to as the U.S. Cavalry, were known as the U.S. Dragoons . I...