Recent Webinar Video: Mapping Historic Sites in Rural Manitoba: Development, Themes, and Application

This webinar will describe an eight-year project of the Manitoba Historical Society to develop a comprehensive online inventory of historic sites around the province. Using Global Positioning System (GPS) data, field photography including aerial imagery taken with drones, and archival research, we will show how abandoned places reveal the ways in which rural Manitoba has changed through the 20th century, in terms of depopulation, agricultural mechanization, development of telecommunication and electrical infrastructure, changes in construction methods, evolution of the education system, changing attitudes to organized religion and Institutions, and home-front involvement in wartime. Possible applications of this inventory for heritage conservation, promotion of tourism, and education, as well as implications for rural planning and policy development, will be  discussed.