Virtual Manitoba (Miscellaneous)

Longtime residents of the Rivers area will probably remember a time when the air buzzed with the sound of RCAF aircraft from an airfield south-west of Rivers. Early in the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Air Force entered into an ambitious project: the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, an...

From the National Film Board of Canada: “In this film Keaton rides across Canada on a railway scooter and, between times, rests in a specially appointed passenger coach where he and Mrs. Keaton lived during their Canadian film assignment. This film is about how Buster Keaton made a Canadian travel...

From the National Film Board of Canada: “This short film from director Gerald Potterton (Heavy Metal) stars Buster Keaton in one of the last films of his long career. As “the railrodder”, Keaton crosses Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. True to Keaton’s genre, the film...

Memories of childhood on the Little Base on the Prairies.

An excerpt from the Manitoba Government Telephones Directory for 1921, showing the pages containing entries for the town of Rivers, Manitoba.

An excerpt from the Manitoba Government Telephones Directory for 1951, showing the pages containing entries for the town of Rivers, Manitoba.

This promotion brochure produced by the Rivers & District Chamber of Commerce provides highlights of the Rivers, Manitoba community for visitors and tourist. It includes information about Rivers Provincial Park, Daly Beach, Lake Wahtopanah, Rivers and District School Boys Pipe Band and Highland Dancers, Wahtopanah Enterprises (selling...