Historical Highway Maps of Manitoba

When you drill down, past the Online Services section of the Archives of Manitoba, you will find yourself at maps. And guess what is there/ The Historical Highway Maps of Manitoba!

 Here is part of what they say -

 ‘The vast ancient migrating herds of bison and other wildlife carved the earliest paths into the rolling prairie landscape, following the ingrained instincts of uncounted centuries. These trails, along with the rivers and streams, soon became the routes of the first Aboriginal peoples, later European explorers, adventurous fur traders and pioneering settlers as they spread across the countryside in the discovery of an unknown world.

The foot worn paths and rutted dirt trails have evolved into the modern network of roads, highways and bridges that bring our neighbours- and the world- to our doorstep every day. From only 700 miles of trails at the birth of Manitoba in 1870, the highway network is now a 19,000 kilometres in length’.

The maps start is the 1920s, and they go right through to the 2000s, and all are downloadable from the site which is at http://www.gov.mb.ca/mit/maparchive/index.html

So has this site helped you to bring your immigrant ancestors closer to their home? Does it help to explain part of the reason why they settled in a particular part of the province?



Check the Canadian Week in Review every Monday morning for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada.

If you missed this week’s edition, it is at http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/03/canadian-news-in-review-09-march-2015.html

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It has been a regular post every Monday morning since April 23, 2012.

Archives of Manitoba has a blog

Since May 2014, the Archives of Manitoba has put on about 4 blogs per month.

 

Visit this blog for regular posts about records at the Archives of Manitoba that date from the time of the First World War at home and on the front.

 

In the blog they write the Hudson Bay Company, Wartime Cookery, and leeters from the from to relatives back home. 

 

To read the blog, go to http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/

 

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Check the Canadian Week in Review every Monday morning for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada.

If you missed this week’s edition, it is at http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/01/canadian-week-in-review-26-january-2015.html

 

It’s the ONLY news blog of its kind in Canada!

It has been a regular post every Monday morning since April 23, 2012.

Service Disruptions at the Archives of Manitoba

During the next few months, the Archives of Manitoba, including the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, will be replacing mechanical equipment and building components in several of the archival storage vaults at 200 Vaughan Street, Winnipeg causing service disruptions. And this disruption will continue over the next one to two years. 

The nature of this work requires the temporary relocation of records stored within the vaults during each phase of the project. This project is necessary to ensure that the environment of the vaults continues to be acceptable for the preservation of archival records.

Services which will be disrupted will be

• times when some records are not available for consultation. 

• delays in retrieval of records may occur. 

• there may be noisy times due to the renovation work. 

Please note that records stored offsite will not be affected by these renovations.

Updates will be posted at the website as the project progresses and you can contact them if you have questions at archives@gov.mb.ca

The website is http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives