The last entries on this website focus on subjects that do not quite fit with the groupings preceding.
The Manitou project explores house designs in that community, and the major legacy of carpenter George Ullyott, whose distinctive creations enrich many streets in that town.
The Grand Marais project highlights the important stone features that define that community’s distinct architectural heritage.
The final entry is actually not about buildings or architecture, although it had its origins in the research carried out for the Carman-Dufferin Landmarks project (above, in Notable Small-town Buildings). During the course of that research, and in a situation any newspaper researcher will recognize, there were constant temptations to read wholly unrelated articles – on fascinating international and national affairs, and more importantly on both vital and mundane local activities. And so acknowledging the obvious, Small Town Excitements came to be: a selection of entries from the Dufferin Leader—in 1898–that give a sense of daily life in just one vibrant small Manitoba town – a world now lost to us.
Manitou Builders and Their Buildings
Grand Marais Stone