It's too bad people trashed the Lang house. That's the problem with the internet. And gotta luv that piece of trash farmer who burned down some of the few remaining pieces of history Manitoba has because he was but hurt about his field. Some simple signage or anything, even if provided by the govt, could have saved it. Is it worth saving any of the sites, since the govt is rewriting history anyways, and it seems if u own the land u could destroy whatever u want. U can't build an f-ing shed without a permit and can't alter any land but this clown farmer can bulldoze a historical building? It's truly a shame that his family owns land at all in this country or any other. And it shows the damage that the internet does to anything good that goes online. At least it's preserved on RU-vid, because it won't be there for long. Hopefully this channel can record and preserve as much as possible.
It's a hard thing, 'liking' a video like this... I had been in the residential school in Brandon many times before its demolition. As a teenager we would break in and hang out there... without really understanding the horrors and heartbreak that took place within.
A fine presentation. I’m wondering when the concrete bridge was replaced by the landfill? I’m hoping that those with memories of this structure might comment.
There is actually a recovery/clean up project happening right now. Gathering up all the old machinery and slated to be picked up in the future. ATV's use that trail every day now and is quite easy now to get to the old generating station. The old generating station was still standing and the turbine was still going strong until a conservation office decided to burn the structure down. This was in the 80's when it was burned down, maybe around 1987. I used to walk up to the structure every summer and fish for brookies along the way. It was sad to learn of the burning of the structure.
Hi Gordon-there is a private grain elevator built in the 1950s on the Stoughton farm just south of Gilbert Plains. It is sheathed in aluminum and is probably twice as high as the Dobbin elevator. It's leg no longer functions and it is filled using a super long auger .
I was driving in some random small town a while back and spotted an old elevator I wanted to check out, but it turns out it was in someone's yard. Damned if I can remember the town, though. Might've been Springstein or Starbuck.
Schools were brutal back then for most children back then. That situation ran across all cultures. When studying history, the context of the times cannot be ignored. I wonder how people like Thompson Highway or Murray Sinclair would have achieved what they did without education, on a trapline? Their parents knew that. Their parents knew times were changing, and survival depended on adjusting to those changes. Their parents knew it was tough for their kids but opted for their greater good. Their culture understood from time immemorial that suffering is part of success.
I have early childhood memories of my family & I hiking into the woods to find the stump. There was graffiti, empty booze bottles & garbage. It’s fuzzy, but I had the impression that this mysterious stump was also a valuable site to the occult in our area, and we’d visit it to pray against them. Bear in mind that this memory is influenced by my imagination at the time. I grew up in a conservative Pentecostal Christian home, this kind of practice isn’t very unusual for Pentecostals, and we were in the middle of a social phenomena known as the Satanic Panic.
Canada and Canadians should clean it up and give it back to nature. Instead of leaving the rusty junk behind. Horrible how you, a country that supposedly cares about nature, handle this.
This "town" doesn't have a graveyard anymore, it was exumed and relocated. ??? it seems any records of the once sizable town are in provincial archives, hours away. Fees to access. Makes it tough to figure out what I am restoring here due to series of cowboy contractors from early 70s, again in '90s, gets worst in 2010 ish. So what is left of 1935 is pretty much fubar and remorse.
nice pictures but I am wondering where are the pictures of the metis people ? Specifically the picture of the ox carts or ox train as you called it. Those are Red River Metis carts.....designed and built by metis i think it should be acknowledged.
Very interesting. I currently live in Flin Flon, Mb, which sits astride the Sk/Mb border. It's a mining town and one of the major reasons that HBMS was able to process the ores found here was the fact that a hydro station could be constructed nearby, on the Saskatchewan side, as Island Falls. I believe it was the first hydro development in Saskatchewan. It still operates to this day, expropriated by the Sask government about 1985. Ironically, I spent my high school years in Minnedosa, where a hydro station was constructed circa 1905, or perhaps 1913 ... it has been a while. One of the first if not THE first hydro projects in Manitoba.
I really like the fact that you didn’t physically make it there, but this was a win nonetheless. Thanks for the great content. I wish I could go get that bren gun carrier.
My father, Ray Savoie, and my uncle, Guy Savoie, operated the bowling alley for a number of years back in the sixties. As a very young lad, I spent many Saturday’s there. To keep me busy, my dad would have me polish all the bowling balls every Saturday morning, for which I earned my weekly allowance of a dollar. The task took pretty well all the morning.
The plaque says: "1867-1967. MALCOLM J. S. McMURARCHY. 1878 - 1960. A pioneer of the Green Bluff district, who developed McMurachy Wheat, a rust resistant strain bred into succeeding varieties. All Canadian agriculture is indebted to his faith and foresight. "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields" This cairn erected by grateful citizens of the Province of Manitoba, in the centennial year.
My father worked at that generating plant in Kanuchuan in 1939. He was married there. I have pictures of my mom’s basement with winter supplies and me dragging an oval dishpan over the rocky terrain. My mom catching fish for fertilizer for her flower bed
Fascinating! This is the first I've ever heard of this! I'm not at all familiar with the east side of Manitoba, north or south. Such vast wilderness, it's remarkable that people acconplished so much so long ago. We need more of thpse pioneers today, the north has been reclaimed by nature, entropy
There was one in marchand mb and the barn is partially up still last time I went through. I believe the American who started it all was a Harris or Harrison but the history of it all is very interesting
Just an FYI. The current owner of this place is a Nazi. He was also known as one of the most hatful people during Covid, who refused all service to the disabled and those unable to wear masks. I was a regular, but after hearing his rants on two occasions I no longer can support this place. (One incident was an autistic boy who couldn't mask, the other a veteran with PTSD. Both incidents he became aggressive and essentially wished them death by covid).
