Collection
Virtual Manitoba (Miscellaneous)
Items about miscellaneous locations and organizations in River, Manitoba.
Stories
Online Media (Showing 5 items of 8 found)
- Abandoned aerodrome once played an important role in Canadian military aviation
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...
- Buster Keaton Rides Again
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...
- Buster Keaton: The Railrodder
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...
- CFB Rivers Manitoba – Little Base on the Prairies
Memories of childhood on the Little Base on the Prairies.
Publications (Showing 3 publications of 3 found)
- Manitoba Government Telephones Directory 1921 – Rivers, Manitoba Pages
An excerpt from the Manitoba Government Telephones Directory for 1921, showing the pages containing entries for the town of Rivers, Manitoba.
- Manitoba Government Telephones Directory 1951 – Rivers, Manitoba Pages
An excerpt from the Manitoba Government Telephones Directory for 1951, showing the pages containing entries for the town of Rivers, Manitoba.
- Rivers, Manitoba Promotional Brochure (Pre-1970)
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...
