Almost left for dead during the First World War
Lake Manitoba’s marshlands prepared Jim Olafson for the muddy trenches in the First World War. He shares how he was almost left for dead.
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Haunted tales from Saskatchewan and Manitoba
A ghostly hitchhiker walks a highway near Melville. A haunted hotel room in Winnipeg. A spooky house with a sad history near Indian Head.
The road from Wekusko to Snow Lake
The train rhythmically clicked its way from Winnipeg, on through Dauphin, Swan River, The Pas and finally, we arrived at Wekusko.
Why crosses were burned on the Prairies?
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan aimed to gain a foothold in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. However, its popularity was short-lived. Even so, every now and again a news story will pop up to suggest the organization never completely went away.
The Spanish Flu made Winnipeg famous for ghosts, seances
How the Spanish Flu impacted the Canadian Prairies. The flu came to Saskatchewan in two waves, while Manitoba was spared the first wave.
The Prairie Oligarchs
Sanctions against Russian Oligarchs is impacting two major employers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The Shiloh people, an unknown part of Prairie history
Saskatchewan’s first and only African American farming community.
