Internal Reports

Background Reports

Over several decades, Historic Resources staff, contracted researchers, and summer students have compiled a variety of research reports for the Branch. While these were produced as internal reference or background material, they are available to interested researchers, students or the public on request by contacting Historic Resources.

View the list of background reports

Major Reports

The Heritage Landscape of the Crow Wing Study Region of Southeastern Manitoba
The Crow Wing Study Region is located in the south central portion of the Province of Manitoba, situated east of the Red River and south of the TransCanada Highway. The pages which follow are intended to quite simply provide glimpses of an evolving cultural landscape to help the reader acquire a better image and understanding of, not only how the landscape of this region was formed, but also how it changed, and what it has now become.

• Section 1 (23 pages/12.8 MB): Cover and Preface, Introduction, Elevation and Relief, Surface Deposits, Soils and Vegetation, Drainage and Waterways

• Section 2 (16 pages/13.4 MB): Native Land Use, The Fur Trade, Land Surveys

• Section 3 (12 pages/8.8 MB): Settlement Groups, Métis Settlement, Anglo Settlement, French River-lot Settlement

• Section 4 (14 pages/10.0 MB): Mennonite Settlement, Ukrainian, German Settlement, Settlement Era Trails, Railway Development, Bridges and Ferries

• Section 5 (22 pages/9.7 MB): Land Drainage and Ground Water, Agricultural Development, Conclusions and Resource Maps
  

The Lumber Industry in Manitoba (78 pages/2.3 MB)
This document covers the lumber industry in Manitoba from the 1870s to today.

How-to Series 4: A Guide to Researching a Heritage Building (115 pages / 243 KB)

How-to Series 5: Identifying Architectual Styles in Manitoba

• Introduction (3 pages / 1.6 MB)

• Styles (30 pages / 12.8 MB)

• Building Traditions and Buildings Types (34 pages / 11.7 MB)

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