Browsing all posts in April, 2010.
Explore Manitoba: Winnipeg's Business Centre
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Lilly Field Post Office and the Changes It Gone Through
The postal service, like all other fields of endeavour, has seen many changes over the past 100 years. Mail service came to Lilyfield, Manitoba to serve the people with the opening of the Post Office in 1896. There has never been a clear explanation as to exactly why the official stamp bore an extra “L”. [...]
Explore Manitoba: 1904 Winnipeg's Post Office
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The Old Mail System of the Gordon Post Office
In the years before 1928, residents of the Gordon area picked up their mail from boxes on old No. 7 highway at Lilyfield. Frank Worch, a CNR section foreman, lived in a section house at Gordon with his wife and five children. She looked after the mail.
In 1928 he built a new house on the [...]
The Stoddard Dayton Model 9H
The Stoddard-Dayton, a product of the Dayton Motor Car Company, is a luxury brand automobile built in Dayton, Ohio, between 1905 and 1913. Stoddard-Dayton is noted for being the first pace car for the first Indianapolis 500 race in 1911. This automobile has been prized by its owner since 1976.The company adopted a strategy of [...]
Orton and Violet (Mulligan)
Orton was born in 1901 at Rosser, Manitoba. He received his education at Westfield School. In 1927, he married Violet Mulligan and they farmed for a short time on the Mace farm SW 26-12-lW. In 1934, they moved to the Price residence in Rosser, Manitoba, situated where the United Church now stands. Ort started [...]
Explore Manitoba: Old Fort Garry Gateway
The gate’s history is one of rejection and threatened destruction and its existence today, as the centerpiece of Fort Garry Gateway Park on the east side of Fort Street, seems due more to luck and happen stance than civic planning. The last remnant of Upper Fort Garry, which was dismantled in 1881-1882, the gate is [...]
The Life of the Bergey Family in Manitoba
Jacob E. Bergey was born in 1862 and Lydia Bricker was born in 1869. They were married in Kitchener, Ontario in 1892. They came to Plum Coulee, Manitoba in 1896; then to Rosser, Manitoba in 1899 where they purchased a three quarter section farm from Mr. Farrel at 18-12-1E.
Mr. and Mrs. Bergey were active in [...]
Explore Manitoba: Portage Avenue Manitoba
This is an image from a postcard of the old Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Portrage Avenue Manitoba
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The Bergen Elevator
The Bergen elevator opened for business in 1965, it was a Federal Grain elevator at that time. In the fall of 1965 there had been a lot of tough grain and the previous agent ended up with only nine people who patronize their service because he would not take the tough or damp grain. Rene [...]
