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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.

Vantage Points IV: Stories highlighting the history of the Turtle Mountain - Souris Plains area.

The Vantage Points Books are available from the Turtle Mountain Souris Plains Heritage Association.

www.vantagepoints.ca






A Community History - 2023

Deleau Community History Book (facebook group)





Rising Above: The 2011 Flood in Brandon

A Brandon Sun Publication


Turtle 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.


Booklet Download



River Journeys 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


(Online & pdf)

Much of my research and writing was commissioned by Municipalities and Heritage Associations and financed by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program. Aside from a few printed copies, usually in Binder Format, many articles have not been published or otherwise widely distributed in hard copies.

I do have ready-to-print pdf copies of most of my projects for those who prefer that format over a website and will happily grant permission to anyone who woiuld like to print or otherwise distribute my work.

Ken Storie -  kenstorie3@gmail.com


The Chapman Museum    :   Booklet Download

Captain Large and the Empress of Ireland     :    Booklet Download

Locally Made - Pioneer Industry

Booklet Download - Part 1: Boundary Taril - East
Booklet Download - Part 2: Turtle Mountain and the Souris Plains

Train Tracks - Stories From A Railway Town  :  Booklet Download

Shelterbelts in Manitoba

The Grand Trunk Pacific in Rivers, Manitoba

Cherry Point    :   
Booklet Download

The Argyle Icelandic Settlement  :    Booklet Download

1000 Words - Pioneer Photographers in the Southwest Corner    :   
Booklet Download

The Sekine Bicycle Co. in Rivers Manitoba

Sourisford Crossing  :   
Booklet Download

Killarney Stories    :   Booklet Download

Connected: Brandon's Railway History   :    Booklet Download

The Chapman Museum     :    Booklet Download

Turtle Mountain and the Souris Plains - An Overview     :   
Booklet Download   

Wakopa     :    Booklet Download

Images of Baldur     :     Booklet Download

 


 





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 MunicipalityVirdenWawanesa



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 | Baldur & Argyle R.MHartney & Grassland RM |

Pipestone RM | Rivers & Area  | 



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

Wakopa   :    Booklet Download







My guide to all things Manitoban...

History - Places - Attractions - Services

Manitoba Communities: Past & Present - Photos & More








Manitoba Photo Gallery