Cartwright Oral History Project
In 1972, Cartwright students spent the summer interviewing 81 area elders
and tape tape recording their responses with technical support provided by
the Museum of Manitoba and Nature. The resulting historical record was made
available to the public on reel-to-reel tapes, the best format for community
access at that time.
By year 2000, community access had become limited due to the obsolescence
of reel-to-reel technology. Accordingly, the village of Cartwright entered
into a partnership with the Canada Millennium Bureau to update the collection
for the 21st century access.
This involved transfer of all data to cassette, then to CD Rom. Due to poor
audio quality and interviews exceeding 1 hour in many cases, it is not possible
to provide full access to the collection via Website at this time. Instead
we offer an audiovisual overview of the projects results which puts to use
the picture files, selected interview clips, and research data gleaned from
the oral history tapes on selected topics.
| Cartwright Oral History Project Please click on picture for Video Appx. Size 4.3 MB Est. download time 56K 16 minutes Please tour our town while you are waiting. |
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| Cartwright Farming History Project Please click on picture for Video Appx. Size 6.2 MB Est. download time 56K 16 minutes Please tour our town while you are waiting. |
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| NB: If you are using the Netscape
Browser: Please open your Windows Media Player, Click on File, Click on open URL, and copy the URL below into the location to open our presentation. (A) http://www.wdd.cx/westman/cartwright/media/cartwright-history.wmv (B) http://www.wdd.cx/westman/cartwright/media/cartwright-farming.WMV |
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The Village of Cartwright acknowledge with gratitude the outstanding support
of the
Canada Millennium Bureau 
and The Cartwright And Area Foundation which made this project possible.
As well, The Village acknowledge the fine work done in 1972 interviewers:
Melanie Trembath, Vicky Wallace, Lori Mowbray, Gregg Trembath, Bev Vassart
and Cindy Wallace.
Project was in conjunction w/MB Museum of Man & Nature.