This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Hamiota Echo remembers seventy four years of local publishing
The Hamiota Echo and Venables family history cover 1896 to 1976 with Fred Venables and sons Don and Fred S. Venables shaping two more weekly papers The Miniota Herald and Woodworth Times. Fire in 1955, format shifts 1951 and 1975, and readers from Crandall to Oak River are noted. Thanksgiving and RCMP promotions in 1976 are mentioned along with local anecdotes.
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Hamiota Echo
Venables
Charles
Fred
Don
The
Echo
Charles W. Venables
Toronto
Globe and Mail
Hamiota
Walter Josey
Fred Venables
Businssness
Brandon Sun
Dorothy
M.C.N.A
C.C.N.C
Germany
Cypress
Linotype
Hamiota Echo Publications Ltd
Fred S. Venables
Calgary Herald
Miniota Herald
Woodworth Times
Crandall
Pope
Oakner
Decker
Isabella
Lavinia
McConnell
Oak River
Petticoat ‘Junction
P.R
Wilf Heapy
Canada
Lethbridge
Alberta
Wilf
Ed Shamray
Maxine
Dick Heapy
Ivy
Jack Hume
Donna
Jim Brown
Dian
Manitoba
Glasgow
CPR
O.R