Founder of Kane, Manitoba
JOHN H. KANE Founder of Kane John Henry Kane, an American business man and land broker from Odell, Illinois, began to purchase newly drained land in the Kane area in 1906. (more…)
News Article Lowe Farm
News article from the Carillon News. Wednesday, January 10, 1973.
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Sperling Catholic Church
It was in the year 1930 that Father Gustave Couture became parish priest in Starbuck and he became very enthused about Sperling having a little church of its own, so he started to organize the people in doing something about it.
By 1935, through Father Couture’s zeal and enthusiasm, they had gathered $650.00 and with a donation of $500.00 by Miss E. Burnie, through Catholic Extension service. Miss Burnie donated the money in memory of her sister, Miss Rose Burnie, and she asked that the chapelle be dedicated to the Ste. Theresa, known as the Little Flower of Jesus. (more…)
Sperling Girls Team Inducted into the MB Softball Hall of Fame…
1947 TO 1952 SPERLING GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM INDUCTED INTO THE MANITOBA SOFTBALL HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM INC.
In 1947 in the small community of Sperling with a population of two hundred, Donald Thom, the High School Principal,organized a girls softball team. The team went undefeated winning twenty-one tournament and exhibition games that first year. In 1951 the senior girl’s high school team lost in the finals at the prestigious Red River Valley tournament at Fargo, N.D. At tournaments in Manitoba they defeated such teams as the St. Boniface Athletics with Bea McKenzie and her sister’s playing for St. Boniface as well as Poplar Point with Olive Little pitching for Poplar Point. Then in 1952 after being runners-up in 1951, the Sperling girls won the Red River Valley tournament in Fargo.
Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc.
306-200 Main Street, Winnipeg, MB R3C 4M2 Canada
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The Place of Roses
Rosenhoff(now known as Riverside) – Rosenort
In 1874 both towns settled. Named by the villagers as suggested by the founder and delegate from Russia David Klassen who noted in his report to them after he visited in 1873 that the land was fertile as indicated by the abundant wild roses growing everywhere. The names mean place of roses (Rosenort) and yard of Roses (Rosenhoff). Riverside was renamed after the new store was built in Rosenhoff and a contest held to name it. Riverside was the name given to the store and the village changed its name afterwards. 
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