Margaret Nex wrote: > Re: Swan River Valley----the Pioneer Centennial committee published a > book 1898 to 1998---you can contact the committee at : Centennial > History Book Committee, Box 1998, Swan River, Manitoba, R0L 1Z0 ISBN > 1 - 55056 - 562 - 1.. I think it costs about 40.00 cdn, plus postage. > ( I ordered it months in advance of the final printing, and forget the > exact amount). Anyone who had family that homesteaded when this area > opened up in 1898 will find it most informative.... > > CAN-MANITOBA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >> Subject: >> >> CAN-MANITOBA-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 59 >> >> Today's Topics: >> #1 Re: [CAN-Manitoba] Question from L ["lois remillard" >> <remi11@home.com>] >> #2 [CAN-Manitoba] Where is the land? [Bette Kosmolak >> <kosmo@pacificcoast] >> >> Administrivia: >> To unsubscribe from CAN-MANITOBA-D, send a message to >> >> CAN-MANITOBA-D-request@rootsweb.com >> >> that contains in the body of the message the command >> >> unsubscribe >> >> and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your >> software >> requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. >> >> To contact the CAN-MANITOBA-D list administrator, send mail to >> CAN-MANITOBA-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> Web Pages of Interest >> Manitoba, Canada GenWeb >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/ >> CAN-MANITOBA-L Mailing List >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/canmanitoba.htm >> >> ______________________________ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Re: [CAN-Manitoba] Question from Listowner >> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:29:59 -0700 >> From: "lois remillard" <remi11@home.com> >> To: CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com >> >> what's your interest in Swan River? They published a book about 10 >> years >> back and most families contributed a bit about there families..I >> don't know >> where you'd get hold of one tho'. I read things about my >> grandparents that I >> didn't know.. Maybe the library has copies to sell.. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "software" <software@yellowknife.com> >> To: <CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:04 AM >> Subject: Re: [CAN-Manitoba] Question from Listowner >> >> : Phyllis Haynen wrote: >> : > >> : > I have a question that I would like to ask everyone ... What >> : > Region are you researching for your ancestors? ... >> : >> : I'm searching in the Beautiful Plains and the Portage Plains >> regions. >> : More specifically, Burnside, Bagot, Glendale, Langford, Neepawa, >> Portage >> : la Prairie, Rosedale. I also have an interest in the Swan River >> and >> : Dauphin region. >> : >> : Patricia Sherman >> : >> : >> : ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== >> : Canada GenWeb Archives Project >> : http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/cgwarchives.html >> : Primary Records for Canada >> : >> : ============================== >> : Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >> : RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >> : http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >> : >> >> ______________________________ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Subject: [CAN-Manitoba] Where is the land? >> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:01:49 -0700 >> From: Bette Kosmolak <kosmo@pacificcoast.net> >> To: CAN-MANITOBA-L@rootsweb.com >> >> Leah, >> You can get some idea of how to locate the land the Virtue's owned >> by >> looking at this site I think: >> http://www.interlinkbookshop.com/dominion.htm >> >> > >> > I am researching the Robert Virtue family. I find that my >> husband's >> > grandfather Robert Virtue born about 1863 in Enniskillen, >> Darlington Twp., >> > Durham County, Ontario, at some time after 1887 moved to or near >> Orillia in >> > Simcoe County but then must have moved to Manitoba by 1898 for I >> found him >> > listed as postmaster March 1, 1898, to Sept. 17, 1900 as >> postmaster at Viola >> > Dale in the electoral district of Marquette. I do not know when >> he moved or >> > when or where he died but most of his children are found in the >> Carmen, >> > Miami, and Plum Coullee regions farther south. Then I found a >> Robert >> > Headrick Virtue, a Robert Virtue and a Robert Alexander Virtue >> under >> > Dominion Land Grants (the first in Twp. 6, Range 9, W3),the second >> and third >> > the SE and SW parts of Sections 12 and 13, Twp. 33, Range 10, W2. >> I do not >> > know where these land descriptions are in Manitoba. Is there a >> site on the >> > Internet which maps out the townships? >> > Can anybody out there help me? I realize I shall have to >> order the >> > films listing the land grants but is there much information that >> might >> > relate to genealogy on them? >> > >> > Leah Joys >> > Medicine Hat, AB >> > >