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Abandoned Manitoba : from residential schools to bank vaults to grain elevators

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  • Author: Goldsborough, Gordon
    Date:
    Created
    2016
    Summary:

    Travel with Gordon Goldsborough from Rapid City School to Mallard Lodge to Union Stockyards and many places in between as the author helps us reclaim some of our long-lost heritage. This full colour, richly illustrated book looks at abandoned sites around Manitoba, describing their features, what caused them to be abandoned, and what they tell us about the history of the province.

    Contents:
    • SS Alpha Shipwreck
    • Atkinson House
    • Bender Hamlet
    • Birtle Indian Residential School
    • Bradley Grave
    • Copley Anglican Church
    • Cordite Plant
    • Fort Daer
    • Gervais Bowstring Bridge
    • Graysville Orange Lodge
    • Harrison Flour Mill
    • Hartney Town Hall
    • Helston Co-Operative Pool Elevator #160
    • La Riviere Ski Slopes
    • Lakeside Fresh Air Camp
    • Leacock House
    • Leary Brickworks
    • Little Saskatchewan River Hydro Dam
    • Mallard Lodge
    • Manitoba Glassworks
    • Matchettville School
    • McArdle Salt Works
    • Morris Repeater Station
    • Ninette Sanatorium
    • Paulson Bombing & Gunnery School
    • Pharmacy College
    • Port Nelson
    • Ramsay Grave
    • Rapid City Consolidated School
    • Rose Hill Lime Kilns
    • Schepper's Agricultural College
    • Sclater Churches
    • Star Mound
    • Union Stock Yards
    • Valleyview Building
    • Vulcan Iron Works.
    Genre:
    Canadian nonfiction, Illustrated works, Travel writing
    Subject(s): Abandoned buildings
    Original Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Great Plains Publications
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781773370897, 1773370898