The adventures of an unmarried, thity-year old girl living in Saskatchewan

Thursday, October 12, 2006

The romantic history of tin



As you might know, Tyler creates art from old ceiling tin. He (meaning me) actually researches all the old buildings and writes a history to go with the art. You can get a better understanding if you go to his website www.tinhousedesigns.ca. Anyway, I've just finished a story for some rather interesting tin that he just found:

Along the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, there are small communities smattered about 7 miles apart. If one stops to wonder how and where the Prairie settlers decided to put down roots, they need only to think of the Red River Carts. The ox drawn buggies could only travel about that distance during the sunlight hours, and as they stopped each evening, people decided to leave the wagon train for a sick animal, a broken heart or a love for the countryside.

This tin comes from one such community. The High Bluff’s store was the longest running general store in Manitoba when it closed up shop in 2001. Built in the late 1800s, the store likely saw many well known Manitobans come through its doors. Three provincial premiers called High Bluff home: Hon. J. Norquay, Hon. D.L. Campbell and Hon. W.C. Weir.

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