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!
Rivers News Capsule Highlights From 1910 to 2010
A chronicle of local notes across Rivers events including Wagar Hall upgrades in 1910 and a blizzard, hospital fund decisions in 1950, cadet inspections, garden frosts, council cautions to the tennis club, births, marriages, business openings and sales, strikes in 1970, school holidays and water lines, community anniversaries, sod turning for Rivers Lions Village in 2000, and recent youth choir activities and CARES fundraising in 2010.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagar Hall
Rivers
Rivers-Daly Hospital Fund
Red Cross
RCAF
Air Commodore
Costello
North West Air Command
Rivers Air Cadet League
Rivers Town Council
Rivers Tennis Club
Fourth Avenue
Lawlor
F. Dalgleish
Peter Livingstone
Bradwardine
Hazel Hanna
John Kelly
Norman McLeod
Rivers’ North American Lumber
Experimental Farm
Elmer Elliott
W. Buck
Stewart Johnstone
Rivers Lions Village
Quebec Street
Second Avenue
Talitha Duck of
Harding
Brandon
Canada
Canadian Agricultural and Rural Extension Society
CARES
Alberta
Ontario
Corina Lepp