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Ken Storie I spent much of my adult life as a school teacher and administrator in several communities in Western Manitoba. I now do consulting, research and writing relating to Heritage Sites, History and the Outdoors.  
Vantage Points V: Stories highlighting the history of the Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains area.
The project is available online...   A Community History - 2023  Rising Above: The 2011 Flood in Brandon A Brandon Sun PublicationTurtle Mountain and the Souris Plains: Our History An overview designed for classroom uses. Each school in the region has a copy in Binder Format and the entire projects is available as a website with enhanced images and online as PDF files.
 River Journey's In Southwestern Manitoba I self-published this little volume in 1996 and designed my first website based upon the research. That website is still current, making it one of the longest running websites in Manitoba.  False Starts: Travels Through Time Along the Rivers of Southwestern Manitoba More False Starts: Communities and Change in Western Manitoba  The Robinson Case 2nd Place, Manitoba Writer's Guild "Hard Boiled Fiction" Contest Sept. 1988. With Narration for presentation on CBC Radio. CBC Intro The Story THE SOURIS RIVER MYSTERY  A Choose-Your-Own Adventure  General Rosser's Legacy, Manitoba History, Fall 2007 Mb. History Bio  Research Projects The Chapman Museum Locally Made - Pioneer Industry Train Tracks - Stories From A Railway Town Shelterbelts in Manitoba The Grand Trunk Pacific in Rivers, Manitoba Cherry Point The Argyle Icelandic Settlement 1000 Words - Pioneer Photographers in the Southwest Corner The Sekine Bicycle Co. in Rivers Manitoba Sourisford Crossing Connected: Brandon's Railway History The Chapman Museum
  The Historic Places Initiative As a consultant for the Historic Places Initiative I visited over 150 Designated Heritage Sites in Manitoba and produced Statements of Significance for www.historicplaces.ca Sample Report Heritage Projects I have produced dozens of Heritage Projects for Municipalities and Heritage Committees. These are generally inventories of places, people and events or focused reseach projects. All projects are delivered in Binder format, and most are online. Special Places Special Places Projects were developed by the Historic Resources Branch as a method of creating Community Inventories of Heritage Resources and subjecting the sites to an analysis process that will help communties protect and use their heritage resources to best advantage. I piloted the first projects in 5 communities in 2008. The projects are in Binders that allow for updates and additions. They are available in Municipal Offices and/or Libraries and Museums in host communities. Many of the projects are available on Heritage Websites I created and maintain for those communities. Links are included in this list. Baldur & Argyle R.M | Boissevain | Carberry | Gladstone | Hartney & Grassland RM | Melita | Killarney Pipestone RM | Rivers & Area | South Central Planning District | The Swan River Valley | Two Borders Municipality | Virden | Wawanesa Notable People Notable People Projects build upon the work done in Special Places Projects. They begin with a typical inventory of people selected from a carefull examination of available local history volumes. A short biographical entry is made for each person deemed to have had some lasting influence on the developement of the community. Baldur & Argyle R.M | Carberry | Hartney & Grassland RM | Melita | Pipestone RM | Wawanesa Pivotal Events Pivotal Events Projects as the final component of the three core collections that, along with Special Places and Notable People, will help communties protect and use their heritage resources to best advantage. With local history volumes as our guide, and with previous heritage projects and local museums as a resouce, we create a comprehensive illustrated timeline that puts a community's pivotal events into context and renders them in an entertaining and accessible fashion. Arden / Lansdowne
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Grassland RM | Educational Materials Here our aim is to identify resouces that will assist museums and schools in their efforts to present enhanced local history programming. The result is a binder with a collection of maps, photos, documents along with suggestions for use. The project is a link between the school system, the local museum, and the heritage projects a community has completed. Melita | Wawanesa | Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains Region Interpretive Signs I have completed seven Sign Projects as part of our efforts to bring the history of our region into the spotlight. Most were sponsored by the Turtle Mountain - Souris River Heritage Association View the signs...  The "We Made" series offers short biographies of influential people in a community. Baldur Carberry Hartney Melita Pipestone RM http://www.pipestonermheritage.ca/events/PipetoneMilestones.pdf  Milestones details the key events that helped shape a community.   Turtle Mountain Mud: Manitoba's Coal Mines (2018) Direction, writing and narration for this short documentary.  Brandon's Steamy Past Research, Writing and Narration. (2017) (Online Companion) Time Tourist Series Research and on camera interviews in two short Bell/MTS Productions about key elements of Brandon's history. (2011) Before Brandon Consulting and a short narration in this Bell/MTS production documentary about the history of the Brandon Rapids. (2016)  www.vantagepoints.ca Webmaster & Content Provider www.virtualmanitoba.com A portal to a wide variety of content: collections, guides, maps, history, the outdoors and more. Virtual Manitoba, started with my ongoing efforts to simplify access to resources and information about the history, geography and culture of our province. Heritage Website Projects Argyle Municipality Arden / Lansdowne Cardinal and Area Deleau and Area Hartney / Grassland Killarney & Area Melita and Area Pipestone RM Prairie Lakes Municipality Rivers and Area Two Borders Municipality Virden Wawanesa Museums in The Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains Region  My guide to all things Manitoban... History - Places - Attractions - Services Manitoba Communities: Past & Present - Photos & More  Manitoba Photo Gallery   |
