Beausejour

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Beausejour
Location in Manitoba
Beausejour (Manitoba)
Beausejour
Beausejour
State : CanadaCanada Canada
Province : Manitoba
Region: Eastman Region
Rural municipality: Brokenhead
Coordinates : 50 ° 4 ′  N , 96 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′  N , 96 ° 31 ′  W
Height : 249  m
Area : 5.35 km²
Residents : 2823 (as of 2006)
Population density : 527.7 inh / km²
Time zone : Central Time ( UTC − 6 )
Foundation : January 2, 1912
Mayor : Don Mazur
Website : www.townofbeausejour.com

Beausejour is a place with a good 2,800 inhabitants in the Canadian province of Manitoba , approx. 60 km northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg .

Beausejour is the center of the area's grain trade and some tourism arose from its proximity to Whiteshell Provincial Park . In addition to agriculture , many residents are employed in companies in the provincial capital.

history

In 1903 the second oldest Ukrainian church in the province was built in Beausejour, after Goner, where the first was built in 1899.

In 1906 Joseph Keilback and his partners founded the Manitoba Glass Works and used the high quality sand deposits in the region. Experienced glassblowers from Poland and the USA mainly produced beer bottles for the growing capital Winnipeg . A consortium of entrepreneurs from the capital took over the company in 1909 and extended the product range to pharmacy and writing utensils by 1911. At its peak, the company employed around 350 people. As early as 1913, however, the company was bought by Montreal entrepreneurs who had fully automated production machines and were able to raise considerably more capital and relocated to Redcliff in Alberta . The new site offered land and a free gas supply. In 1989 the company became a Provincial Heritage Site.

On April 6, 1912, the place Beausejour was incorporated. Many residents came from Poland, Ukraine and Germany, most of them from Galicia and Volhynia . With the Beausejour Beaver own weekly newspaper appeared in Beausejour. The Northern Crown Bank opened a branch in town.

In addition to the heavily agricultural structures, the economy is increasingly based on tourism, to which the establishment of Whiteshell Provincial Park contributed. On the south- west edge of the parish is the 25 hectare Chryplywy Wilderness Park . In 1967, on the initiative of Julian Ilchena, the Pioneer Village Museum was created , which represents a small town from around 1900. This includes a log cabin, a school, Carl Kososki's shop, Bill Bryk 's tailor shop, the Community Hall, a Canadian Pacific Railway station , a blacksmith's shop, a shop and a Catholic, Ukrainian church with a bell tower (Holy Trinity Ukrainian Church) built in 1904. There is also the house where the former Prime Minister of Manitoba Edward Schreyer (1969–1977) was born. Schreyer taught at the local Cromwell Public School and Beausejour Collegiate from 1956 to 1967 . In total, the museum holds more than 3,000 artifacts, including a fire truck from the 1940s and agricultural machinery and equipment.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

5.6 kilometers west-southwest of the village is an airfield, the Beausejour / AV-Ranch Airpark.

media

With the Clipper Weekly , a separate weekly newspaper appears in town.

education

The public library, the Brokenhead River Regional Public Library , is located at 427 Park Avenue. It opened on November 21, 1981 and, according to its own information, housed 1,200 books. It goes back to an initiative of the Beausejour Women's Institute . Until 1984 she was in the Edward Schreyer School, and then moved to today's domicile, the size of which was doubled again in 1994. Connected to the Internet in 1996, a high-speed connection was implemented in 2000 with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .

The supraregional theological training for the Protestant First Nations of different churches serves the Dr. Jessie Saulteaux Resource Center . It was founded in 1984 as part of an experimental program by the United Church of Canada , and in 1991 it was expanded into a college of theology. The training center was originally located at the Prairie Christian Training Center in Fort Qu'Appelle , Saskatchewan , before moving to the Brokenhead River near Beausejour.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ The History of Ukrainians in Canada by the Toronto Ukrainian Genealogy Group
  2. ↑ Manitoba Provincial Heritage Site No. 41. Manitoba Glass Company Site .
  3. ↑ Town of Beausejour ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Major Albert Maurice Pratt: The Story of Manitoba's Weekly Newspapers , 1970. On Pratt cf. Art. Albert Maurice Pratt (1889-1972) on the Manitoba Historical Society website
  5. ^ David Spector: The Buildings of the Winnipeg-Based Union and Northern Crown Banks: A Glimpse into Early Twentieth Century Corporate Architecture. In: Manitoba History. 21 (spring 1991)
  6. ↑ Photos from the first half of the 19th century can be found here ( Memento from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Ed Schreyer. An Inventory of His Papers at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
  8. ^ The Clipper Weekly. Online Edition ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Through the years , website of the library ( Memento of February 23, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ History , website of Dr. Jessie Saulteaux Resource Center ( December 25, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive )