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 INVITING NEW CITIZENS TO EXPLORE MANITOBA WITH THE CULTURAL ACCESS PASS
THE INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP BRINGS ITS UNIQUE PROGRAM TO MANITOBA
WINNIPEG, MB – May 10, 2012 – In celebration of Manitoba Day, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC) officially launched its unique Cultural Access Pass (CAP) program in Manitoba at a special event at the [...]

 On March 16, the Manitoba Agricultural Museum received a letter from WestJet announcing that the Museum’s annual “ Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede” has been chosen as the top-voted festival in Manitoba for 2011 in WestJets Fun’n Festival event. The award was also received March 16.
At the Museum’s Annual General Meeting on March 17, this news [...]

The storage archives of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum hold a number of items that the Museum can not display due to lack of proper display facilities. One of the pieces is the promotional booklet “Austin, Manitoba The Sort of Home You’ve been Looking for” printed by the Austin Board of Trade circa 1912. During a [...]

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s artifact collection includes more than equipment. An interesting example of such artifacts is the material donated by Mr. Robert Wilson of Gladstone consisting of a Bill of Sale for a Big Four tractor sold to Magnus Wilson, Robert’s grandfather, plus a photo of the tractor plowing, the tractor’s operating manual and [...]

Among the photos donated to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum is this photo of a Sawyer Massey 25-45 kerosene tractor threshing in the fall of 1919 northeast of Brandon on the Archie McPhail farm. The identities of the men in the photo are not known at this time. Alex McPhail, Archie’s son, may be the man [...]

The Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s collection features a hand powered stone flour mill which was donated to the Museum by John Clark of Brandon in 1960. Mr Clark indicated the mill was brought to Manitoba in 1880 from Ontario. The mill which consists of a very heavy table with the millstones set into one end with [...]

Since the release of the Manitoba Agricultural Museum press release “Portable Elevator 1906 Style” various comments have flowed to the Museum. A number were along the lines “Even the horses were thinking And I thought I was too old to run away to join the circus as they were being harnessed up to the elevator”. [...]

In the summer of 2010, while looking through a scrap pile on a western Manitoba farm for parts related to a Rumely silo filler the farmer was considering donating to the Manitoba Agricultural Museum, a Museum volunteer came across a much more interesting find, steel oil barrels. While many readers will be thinking at this [...]

Threshing Competition at the Manitoba Agricultural Museum’s Threshermen’s Reunion and Stampede
With the sheaves loaded, the teams race their racks to their threshing machines for the final half of the threshing competition.  One rack has already pulled up beside the steam separator and from smoke and steam belching from her stack the Case steam engine is [...]