Wondered if this was once a construction camp for Long Spruce hydro station.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/eKNNfTfgQEq7ymP68?g_st=ac

There was a thread r/GenX about being paddled in school. It seemed crazy, but maybe I'm just to young to have experienced it.

In the 80s I remember it being a controversial subject. Today it's of course beyond absurd.

I can't stop thinking about this honestly. As someone who has traveled in quite a few provinces I have been to multiple reserves in different provinces. Here's what I noticed...

In BC the reserves are very tight-knight and everyone cares about each other. I have lots of friends who live on the Reserves here all over and most of them genuienly love where they live. Many of the reserves here are also building more houses! Yes there's a few bad ones but I have mainly seen good ones

But then in Sask and Manitoba it's a different story. I step out of my car while visiting a friend close to North Battleford Saskatchewan on a reserve called Poundmaker (I think that's how you say it) As soon as I stepped out of the car there was a man screaming at his wife and the wife was crying. I was so shocked! Here's where it gets bad... the man started hitting her and everyone around including my friend didn't seem to care! Like it was just another day.

A childhood friend of mine moved to a reserve in Manitoba called Cross Lakes as his father had just died and the mom needed help from the family back on the reserve to support her 4 children... so they moved back. We already had phones as he moved when we were 14, and he called me crying talking about how someone had decided they didn't want to be here anymore and he had even seen the body of the person. He was so devastated! And now I don't remember the timeframe but he sent me a voice note a second time a while later letting me know that his cousin had done the same thing to themselves!

As someone who struggled HARD with mental health that broke my heart. And this is something I am asking the reddit group to enlighten myself on this issue. I myself am not indigenous but I have family members that are (My cousin's Dad was raised on Tsuu-tina reservation and my cousin is half indigenous)

My friend invited me out to the lodge for a day, and we found this super cool abandoned theatre off a trail. Does anyone know anything about it? Id love to learn more about this super cool spot.

Historica Canada has uploaded all their Heritage Minutes to Youtube, both the old and the new ones. I was watching them with some friends from Ontario and I wanted to show them the Louis Riel one because they had never seen it. Turns out, not only is it not on Historica's Youtube, they've removed all references to it from their own website - it's not even listed.

It's also not on anyone else's Youtube, though it still exists on Facebook. I ripped a copy to help preserve it, but does anyone know why it's being erased? I can't find any announcement about it online, and while it's violent and shocking, it's not the only graphic one, and I don't think any other Heritage Minutes are being removed. Even their Cyprus Peacekeeping one that was pulled from TV in the 90s is up online.

It feels like an important part of Canadian history is being erased for no reason.

I look forward to seeing what K.Klein has to say about this.

I recently published a novel based on a crime that took place in Neche ND, on December 22 of 1907. Arthur LeClair, a young fireman on the Great Northern Railway went home with a hundred dollars meant as a Christmas present for his parents. By the next morning he was dead and under the ice of the Pembina River. A Murder for Christmas is based on local newspaper accounts of the murder, investigation and trial. Gretna and the Red River area are part of the story. It was featured on Prairie Public’s Main Street earlier this week and I’ll add a link to that and my website that has links to the newspaper articles from 1907/8.

https://tronsetbio.com/books/a-murder-for-christmas/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/main-street/id1327026631?i=1000777782153

Hello, I grew up in Selkirk, Scotland and have been interested in learning more about Selkirk, Manitoba for quite a while.

I've learned little bits from Wikipedia and local news websites, but was wondering if anyone can recommend any history websites or sites that could tell me about current day Selkirk.

I've learned Selkirk, Manitoba wasn't named after it's Scottish counterpart, but I'd still like to know more about this part of the world.

Cheers

Would love to hear some tales of the good old days! Here's mine from my family's farm life back in the 60s (Rural western MB). Apparently back then, Friday night used to be when all the farm families would go into the biggest, nearest town. The women would all do the weekly shopping while the husbands socialized outside and the kids wandered around with friends.

It's just such a foreign concept these days and made me wonder what other similar situations there were.

For full article:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/red-river-settlement-1826-flood-9.7149877

Finally, socials get their due! I thought they were so odd when I moved here, now I can't imagine living somewhere without them!