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!
Gallery of Manitoba place name histories in Eye Witness area
Manitoba Conservation released Geographical Names of Manitoba a 330 page volume detailing origins meanings and histories of nearly 12 000 place names. The Eye Witness segment covers Crandall Hamiota Kenton Maingy Oakner Oak River and related naming notes with railway and post office ties and historic sources.
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Manitoba Conservation
Manitoba
McNally Robinson
Crandall
Shoal Lake
Crandell
Darlingville
CPR
Douglas
J. B. Crandall
GEC
R. Hamilton
Ottawa
M. Crandall
Crandall History Society
Carling Beverage Company
Carlingville
Morley Crandell
Ment of the Interior
Rand McNally
Hamiota
Hamilton
Canadian Pacific Railway
GBC
Oak River
Fraser
F M. Hamilton
Ontario
Utah
C.N. Bell
Miniota
Garland
Kenton
Virden
W.J. Helliwell
Ralphton
Ralph
Vipond
Maggie Beamish
Griswold
Lothair
Parr Siding
Kenton History Committee
A.W. Kenton
Annie Kent
Kent
Great North West Central Railway
Maingy
Ralphstown
Burland
Ralphtown
Brownlee
Public Works
Dominion Lands
Ralphwood
Oakner
Arena
Department of the Interior
Eden
Hamiota Women's Institute
Oakner Consolidated School
James Little
Blanshard
Canadian Pacific
North Western Railway Company
J. Davidson
Pam
SGO
Oakriver
Assiniboine River
Arrowsmith
Thompson
Oak Rivu