St. Vincent Memories

T he Gooselaw family were one one of the earliest to settle  St. Vincent, as the article in these two scans explain. Be sure and read abo...

I got an exciting phone call this morning! I was at my office catching up on some work, about to leave, when my cell phone rang. I answered...

By the close of the fifth decade of the nineteenth century both Britons and British subjects in Canada West wanted a more detailed picture o...

Liza & Gail Short ran the Short's Cafe in St. Vincent starting in the 1930's. Gail was my Dad's uncle, and in 1938 Dad came...

A St. Vincent expatriot contacted me yesterday out of the blue. It was great hearing from someone, and to know that I'm touching people...

The photo to the left, taken by a St. Paul photographer in the 1800's, shows one of the main streets of Pembina, storefronts in the back...

From the March 7, 1890 edition of the St. Vincent New Era comes this distressing assessment of St. Vincent as a town to be avoided (albeit f...

The little things that make a town, the politics of growth and decline, the individuals that made a difference; this is St. Vincent, in the ...

The St. Vincent cemetery has always been a community cemetery. Not affiliated with any particular church or family, anyone could, was, and ...

I grew up with the Brethren .* They were always a semi-mysterious group to those of us on the outside looking in. Everyone in St. Vincent kn...