- 2026-10-08Parliamentarian and Methodist minister, J.S. Woodsworth was born at Etobicoke, Ontario, and raised in Portage la Prairie and Brandon. He…
- 2026-10-08In 1619, the mariner Jens Munk was commissioned by Denmark's King Christian IV to seek a Northwest Passage to the…
- 2026-10-08A lawyer and journalist, Royal came to Manitoba in 1870. The following year he founded Le Métis, a newspaper which…
- 2026-10-08This building was erected by the Presbyterian parishioners of Kildonan under the active supervision of their minister, James Nisbet. Known…
- 2026-10-08Manitoba’s dramatic growth in the 1880s and 1890s brought equally dramatic changes to church architecture. Churches built during the earlier…
- 2026-10-08Knox United, originally a Presbyterian church, is the largest United church in Manitoba. Constructed between 1914 and 1918, it was…
- 2026-10-08Near here on November 1, 1869, the Métis barred the road to representatives of the Hon. Wm. McDougall who were…
- 2026-10-08In 1870, Father Noel-Joseph Ritchot (1825-1905) began the construction of this chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father Ritchot…
- 2026-10-08The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) completed its main line through Manitoba in 1883. Within a few years branch lines were…
- 2026-10-08Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye (1685-1749), explorer and trader under whose authority Fort Rouge was built at…