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!
Historic notes from Russell Manitoba calendar pages
A summary of multi decade items from the Russell area. Topics include A S Crerar shipping cattle via Montreal and local rail life shifts, a restored school interior in Strathclair, Manitoba’s first wooden bridge over Silver Creek on the M and N W Railway, post office lock boxes installed at Silverton, harvesters arriving in Winnipeg, Dominion Lands homestead grants, local church moves, Board of Trade reorganization in 1921, school re-openings, horticultural show results, 1928 baseball medal ceremony, oil drilling proposals, and War Savings Certificates sales data for 1941.
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Manitoba
Silver Creek
M. and
N.W
Silverton
P. ‘I. Hyde
Winnipeg
Dominion Lands Office
Edmonton
Canada
C. W. ‘Thom
Board of Trade
A. G. P. Smellie
H. Clee
L. C. Boulton
Russell School
L. H. Donnelly
G. King
Miss Cumming
Houston
R. Marshall
Cochrane
Campbell
Gorrell J. Slack