TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Beginning .................................................................................................. .. Page 11 Founding of the Municipality ................................................................................ .. 17 A Town is Born ....................................... ..

Bridging the Waters ................................................................................................. .. 24 Draining the Prairie Marshes ................................................................................ .. 29 Communications and Transportation ............... .. 37 The Coming of the Railroad .............................. .. ...... .. 41 Highways and Roads ............................................................................................... .. 44 Telephones 54 Hydro ....................................................................................................................... .. 56

Medical Care ............. ..

Settlement and Population ............ ..

Education ......................................... ..

Reeves and Councillors ........................................................................................... .. 69 Secretary—Treasurers ............................................................................................... .. 80 Agriculture ....................................... .. ............. .. 83 Agriculture Representatives .................................................................................. .. 100 Agricultural Society - Stampede ......................................................................... .. 103 4-H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 12

Women's Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 114

Harvest in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 117

Floods in the Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 19

The War Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 141 Municipal Affairs ................................................................................................. .. 153 Equipment ............................................................................................................... .. 160 Municipal Bonspiels ................................................. ..

The Parish of St. Antoine d'Aubigny ................................................................ .. 165 Union Point ............................................................................................................. .. 227 Silver Plains ............... ..

McTavish ................................. ..

The Mennonites - A People .................................................................................. .. 321

(Rosen0rt - Rosenhoff)

Dewet - Sewell ........................................................................................................ .. 478 Lowe Farm - The Land and the People ............................................................ .. 617

Golden Tales of Sperling ...................................................................................... .. 731