St. Vincent Memories

L ate this past summer,  this was posted on the St. Vincent Memories Facebook page : Looking to see if anyone might know or have any mo...

[Courtesy:  Kittson County History Center & Museum] At the Zenith of its production years, the early elevated view seen above of the man...

One of the reasons I began writing this blog was because I saw my village, even as I was growing up within it, declining before my eyes.  ...

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

R eaders of this blog may have noticed several sections on the right-hand sidebar.  One of those sections contains links to various local ...

Gravestone for John Bruce, St. Vincent resident - buried in old Emerson, Manitoba cemetery (reason unknown) [Photo Courtesy:  Wayne Arse...

At this point, Christ Church was still considered a Mission... In 1971, attempts were made to preserve Christ Church, the Episcopal chu...

According to my statistics service, this website had the following stats over the last 30 days: I hadn't checked my stats in months, ...

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 ...

Glenn Brown, administrator for the Kittson County Historical Society website, wrote today to say that the website will be moving. The need ...

William Ash sent me this link a few days ago, knowing how I'm interested in all things railroad, especially as they relate to my local...

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...

In 1990, the Department of Anthropology of the University of North Dakota, undertook a survey and testing project known as The Fur Trade of...

I'm participating in the project shown in this video, and I highly encourage anyone reading this to do so, also. It's so true what t...

After recently reading about a trip by a teacher and her students to the Pembina Metis Cemetery , I got in touch the instructor, Leslie Pe...

PAHR (Preserving the American Historical Record Act) proposed to increase federal support for state and local archival records held by gove...

A school certificate, signed by (among others), Duncan Cameron... A sale bill for an auction of the Hugh Griffith farm in 1916...

The Kittson County Historical Society has been chosen as one of the 6 pilot sites for an AASLH Small Museum Scholarship . This is a fantast...

This website has been featured on the Family Matters genealogy blog this week, and has driven a lot of new traffic through here. Welcome to...