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Between the Great Wars
Mather Post Office Museum
Mather , Manitoba

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received and dispatched.
   Mather’s farms were not
particularly motorized
either. Horses still did
nearly all the fieldwork and
a wagonload of grain on the
way to elevator row was an
everyday event. Trucks were
rare, but every farm owned a
buggy or a "democrat."

   Living conditions in
those early days would seem
primitive to contemporary
families who rely on push
button appliances. Homes were
lit by oil lamps and heated
by wood burning cook stoves,
in stark contrast to today’s
electric lights, ranges,
refrigerators, deep freezes,

television and radio. There
was no butcher, no baker, not
even a candlestick maker in
Mather! Bread was sometimes
shipped in from Manitou or
Killarney but the town’s
homemakers relied very much
on their own resources to
feed their families. If she
did not already know how to

bake, a homemaker quickly
learned!
   As this brief history of
Mather will make plain, when
all is said and done, this
small prairie town is still a
nice place in which to
live.

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