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The History of the North West Interlake as told by A. S. Hern.

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Hern Points to the location of Ashern in Manitoba, Canada.
2003
In the school house on the Ashern Pioneer Museum grounds

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Hern points to the location of Ashern, Manitoba on the map of Canada.

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Ashern is located 160 km north of Winnipeg on highway 6.
2003
In the Interlake region of Manitoba on highway 6
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Highway sign indicating the town of Ashern.
2003
Highway 6 near Ashern
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Ashern is located 160 km north of Winnipeg on highway 6.

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Annie Johnson was a Schoolteacher who came to Vogar in 1927.
2000
At the Millenium Dinner Theatre production
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Annie: My name is Annie Johnson. I came to teach at Vogar in the fall of 1927. I'm English.
Joel: Annie, how long did you teach in Vogar?
Annie: From 1927 to my marriage in 1931. Although I taught else where during winter close in 1927?
Joel: How were the students?
Annie: The children were good. Very respectful. I had a Jewish family, Icelandic kids but, the Métis children were the most respectful. I didn't have much trouble with kids and if you punished a child you didn't get hell for it like you would now a days. I remember one girl I gave a strap to.

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Some students like to tell stories as Annie Bush found in her school.
2000
The Millenium Dinner Theatre Production
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Rude Girl: Annie Bush loves Johnny Johnson, Annie Bush loves Johnny Johnson.
Annie: She was out on the road hollering.
Rude Girl: Annie Bush loves Johnny Johnson.
Annie: You have no business doing the likes of that you know.
Annie: when she came in I gave her a strap, one on each hand. You know, that girl, she never held it against me because she knew darn well she deserved it.

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The Ferry crossing the lake at the Narrows of Lake Manitoba.
1950
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In 1900 there was no town at Ashern, the area was mainly bush with an aboriginal (native) settlement at Dog Creek and some European and Métis settlers at the Narrows.

Manitou Island is situated in Lake Manitoba Narrows, two miles north of the present bridge site. This was believed to be the natural resting place of Spirit or God Manitou. The natural phenomenon of water running over stones near an island by the Narrows was thought to be the voice of the aboriginal God Manitou.

That's where Manitoba got its name from the French Canadian explorer La Verendrye.

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The Narrows of Lake Manitoba showing the bridge that replaced the ferry.
2003

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The opening of the Ferry linking east and west sides of Lake Manitoba at the Narrows in1957.
1960
The Narrows of Lake Manitoba