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!
From Our Files On Rivers Community Chronology
A retrospective of events from 1919 to 1989 in Rivers Manitoba notes church duties, school projects, dances, memberships, infrastructure updates, anniversaries, and family milestones. Highlights include Rev. A R Hall’s rectorate, a Merry-Whirl purchase discussion, Kiwanis founding, hospital grants, 25th anniversaries, wheat shipments to Arabia, and a Sunday post office closure after a fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Hall
St. James
Veenhaas
Lorne Buggey
Kiwanis Club
Rivers
T. E. Wright
L. Rubin
Claude Arthur
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
B. YV. Greenaway
Riverdale Hospital
J. Zmetana
M. Shannon
E. P. Dawson
Arabia
James Decker
William Decker
Wawanesa
Evans Theatre
Brandon
Byron
Arlene Hamilton
Bank of Montreal
Rivers First Recycling Depot
Ryan Whelpton
Darren Lee