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3 unusual facts about Assiniboia


Ed Russenholt

He wrote a book on the history of Assiniboia, The Heart of the Continent: being the history of Assiniboia - the truly typical Canadian community, and edited a book on Rockwood, Manitoba Re-echoes from Rockwood.

RCAF Station Assiniboia

RCAF Station Assiniboia was a Second World War British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) flying training station located near Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Vernon Barford

Having failed entrance exams to Oxford University, he moved in 1898 to Qu'Appelle, District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories (most which became the southern third in territory, half of population, of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1905 after his departure).


Council of Assiniboia

The Council of Assiniboia was replaced by the short lived Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia after the Red River Rebellion.

Ecclesiastical Provinces and Dioceses of the Anglican Church of Canada

Qu'Appelle (Saskatchewan; corresponding to the pre-1905 District of Assiniboia in the North-West Territories),

Pembina Trail

It refers to the easternmost of the three principal routes from Pembina and Fort Garry in the former Red River Colony of Manitoba (then known as Assiniboia or the Selkirk Colony) to Mendota and St. Paul.

Port McNicoll, Ontario

From 1912, Port McNicoll was home port of the CPR's passenger and package freight steamships, SS Keewatin and Flagship SS Assiniboia.

Sharon Blady

Blady grew up in the neighbourhood of St. James-Assiniboia in Winnipeg, where she attended Buchanan School, Hedges Junior High School, and Collège Silver Heights Collegiate.


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