St. Vincent Memories

The history of the Pembina Metis Cemetery: Inter-Ethnic Perspectives on a Sacred Site By Ruth Swan and Edward A. Jerome Plains Anthropologi...

In an August 1879 edition of the  Pembina Pioneer  newspaper, there was a snippet which read:  Monday morning, we noticed at the St. Vincent...

In another recent post , I introduced readers to an amazing collection of essays about my hometown region, written by Charles H. Lee. Mr. L...

Chapter 10 On December 14 as Charley plodded through last night's heavy fall of snow he realized that any sudden strong wind could whip...

Joe Wilson, farmer near Emerson, Manitoba, hauls a Lockheed Hudson bomber across the border at Pembina, circa February 1940. My Mom - along...

How many times did I walk through this midway ? Sometimes with friends, sometimes alone. Sometimes in the day, and sometimes in the night ...

I recently bought a copy of a 60-page booklet called The Long Ago . It is a compilation of articles written by a Charles H. Lee for the Moun...

"During the early 1900's, Dr. Arthur Shaleen loaned books from his private library."  A bit of fascinating trivia : " [C...

One of the songs my Dad could play, and play well, on the harmonica , was Red River Valley . He always thought, as most people do, that the...

Orlin Ostby plans to walk with Pum, his ox, the 400 miles from Pembina, North Dakota to St. Paul, to commemorate the Minnesota sesquicentenn...