- 2026-10-08In the early 1700s, the Assiniboin people occupied the northern plains from the Red River to the Rocky Mountains. The…
- 2026-10-08Constructed in 1908–10, this was the first building designed as a bank to be erected away from "Banker's Row" on…
- 2026-10-08During the Manitoba land boom of the late 1870s and early 1880s settlers from Ontario were attracted to the Beautiful…
- 2026-10-08In the spring of 1882 some 350 Russian Jews fleeing Czarist persecution arrived in Winnipeg. They had been assisted in…
- 2026-10-08The first Jewish farm colony in Manitoba was founded here in 1903. Named for its founder, Jacob Bender, who immigrated…
- 2026-10-08While the exact cultural origin of the boulder figures laid out on the tablerock of the Whiteshell is unknown, they…
- 2026-10-08In 1872, the British and American governments appointed the North American Boundary Commission to survey the Forty-ninth Parallel, the boundary…
- 2026-10-08In 1818 the British and American governments established the Canadian-American boundary at the 49th parallel from the Lake of the…
- 2026-10-08Higher education in western Manitoba traces its beginnings to Rapid City where in 1880 the Baptist community established Prairie College.…
- 2026-10-08Brandon's importance as a major centre in southwestern Manitoba was confirmed when it was selected in 1883 as the headquarters…