St. Vincent Memories

Left to right :  Mrs. Zaharia, Margaret 'Toots' Ryan, Florence Godon, Esther Cleem (Florence and Esther were Thiefault sisters...), ...

Jim Benjaminson shared today:   Well, its getting closer to reality - "Sagas of Pembina County, 1867-2017" is at the printer...

PHOTO INFO:  A stereoview showing the railroad track along the eastern bank of the Red River in St. Vincent.   This track is the continuat...

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

A ndy and Toots Ryan (Andrew and Margaret Ryan, to be exact) were brother and sister.  They lived together in a small, tidy house in the mid...

T his time, the water cooler chatter turned to our neighboring town - and good friends - Humboldt, MN. Michael Rustad My Mother, Pat ...

Drawing submitted for Patent [Click to Enlarge] M y grandparents moved from the homestead to uptown mainstreet of the village, in the...

R ecently, on a social media site, a few individuals who grew up in or near Humboldt, MN were reminiscing... Deacon Jim Hunt One of m...

A recent newspaper article reminded me of how quickly we can be forgotten. I have often imagined the St. Vincent of the future as bei...

Although I have not obtained a photograph of the mysterious Mrs. Rasche yet, I did come across one of her children in a Maryland history...

Having had its own County Seat stolen - and for other more practical reasons - St. Vincent came to the support of its neighbor across the...

John Stranger - Back row, middle A MEMOIR OF A LIFE,  FOR BETTER OR WORSE By John A. Stranger CHAPTER ONE Beginnings...

Dan Ohmann made these to hand out as thank-yous at this summer's town reunion, using the town's actually official seal stamp/press...

B ack in the day, just as now, lawmen worked together between Canada and America.  There was less red tape then, although that was there,...

Anthony "Tony" Merck Humboldt Depot agent T his reminicense by Margaret Matthew Panzer is full of memories and names of old ...

Population 6...plus two big dogs [Photo: Ghosts of Minnesota ] T here are towns even smaller than St. Vincent , but not many. One of ...

rom around 1936 to 1956, Emerson obtained its power across the US / Canada border from a long 2400V distribution circuit originating from P...

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...

In photo (l to r): Uncle Charlie (Cresien) & Aunt Norma (Carrigan); a very young Mike Rustad held by his father Alfred "Rusty...

T he letter below was received by Alfred "Rusty" Rustad while he was in the service during WWII. It was written by a local repr...