First Peoples of St. Clements Timeline

Timeline:  About 8000 Years Ago: Lake Agassiz A huge body of water covered the lands of St. Clements about 8000 years ago. Scientists suggest it formed about 14,000 years ago from the melting of a continental ice sheet. When the glacial lake drained, its sediments formed the rich farmland of the Red River valley and…

Manitoba History Timeline

This timeline for Manitoba’s history from 11,500 BC to 1995 was developed by the Gimli Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee (website at http://gimliheritage.ca). It was adapted from Manitoba: 125, a three-volume history of Manitoba published in Winnipeg in 1993 by Great Plains Publications Ltd.  

Pivotal Events

St. Clements Heritage recently finished a project called Our Essential Past: Pivotal Events that involved organizing the information found in our 944 page history book, East Side of the Red: A Centennial Project of the Rural Municipality of St. Clements 1884 to 1984 into historic themes.   The events were placed into a thematic framework…

St. Clements Historic Timeline 1750 – 1982

This timeline of events was gleaned from the commemorative history book made for our 100th Anniversary, The East Side of the Red: A Centennial Project of the Rural Municipality of St. Clements 1884 to 1984. It gives a chronology of events and activities that helped shape our community that can be used by students and…