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!
In Rivers many dated notes stretch across decades
A compilation of brief river area items from 1908 to 1998 notes a Canadian Bank of Commerce inquiry for a Rivers branch, fire damage to The Gazette office, multiple marriages and anniversaries, crops damage from rains, CN telegraph work, staff retirements, a tank incident saving a child, postal strikes, grain handling impacts, stolen vehicles, Special Olympics gold and silver wins, and various local marriages and civic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Rivers
Gazette
Helen Lindsay
Chester Forman
Dorothy Richardson
Maurice Oualie
Jean Richardson
Henry Paradis
Gwendolyn McCallum
P. McTavish
Wes McDonald
Brandon
Alexander Guest
Rivers Phone Exchange
Jacqueline Walker
Edward Hawkins
Rivers United Church
Norman McConachie
Toronto
Eric Cousins
Board of Grain Commissioners
Christopher Bastard
Kenton
Marsha Johnson
George Bray
W. Wolfe
Jean Kitzler
Lorie Gompf
Margaret Martens
Gerald Snowdon
Margaret Kaplar
Gordon Olfrey
Jack Bridgeman
James Kennedy
C. Greene
Dick Hunt
Joseph Blair
Emile Bazinet
Bruce Corbett
Raymond Taylor
R. Taylor
Stonewall
St. Lawrence Seaway
UGG
National
Wheatland
Bradwardine
B&g Electric
Jason Isaak
Isaak
Lenny McDonald
Ken Graham
Rivers Baptist Church
Three Hills
Alta
Lisa Graham
Derrick Scott
Allison Lamb
Gary Pomeroy
Bernie Silvius