Accomplishments

Heritage Saint-Norbert provided input into the bridge project including providing for the naming on the bridge – Les Ponts de Saint-Norbert.

We requested a bench be named for Henry Boux, a longtime member who was instrumental in establishing the market among other community work. In fact, we got the small park overlooking the La Salle River, a very fitting tribute to a respected member.

In 2008, a scholarship was created from a bequest to Heritage Saint-Norbert by a longtime supporter. The scholarship is awarded annually to a student specializing in French language studies.

There was a move by Canada Post to close the Saint-Norbert Post Office. We successfully lobbied to save it. That was an important step in retaining the identity of Saint-Norbert. A significant argument was that we needed a bilingual facility.

For a number of years Heritage Saint-Norbert organized Canada Day celebrations that were quite popular. They included the arrival of Captain Canada by parachute. This photo is of Jeanne Perreault with Napoleon the ox in a Canada Day parade.

During various floods affecting the town, particularly the 1950 and 1966 floods, creation of dikes apparently destroyed many graves near the church. There remained no public record of these individuals. Heritage Saint-Norbert members painstakingly searched the church records to find their names so that a cairn could be erected in Read more

Heritage Saint-Norbert commissioned a large mural that faces Pembina Highway traffic as it enters the village from the south. The mural depicts important events and individuals of the area, including the erection of the barrier to stop the forces approaching from Pembina until negotiations took place for Manitoba’s entry into Read more

Heritage Saint-Norbert was approached by a group that wanted to start a market on the Place Saint-Norbert property. Heritage Saint-Norbert and the St. Norbert Foundation (now the Behavioural Health Foundation) joined together to create the St. Norbert Farmers’ Market. The plan was that this market would prevent an abundance of Read more

The McDougall family was among many Metis who relocated from the St. Boniface-St. Vital area to Lorette and other areas in Tache during the troubled years of 1868–70. Daniel McDougall, 27, found property to his liking south of the Seine River in 1869, staked his claim, and began plowing his Read more

The building that had been the town butcher shop, located at de l’Eglise and Landry, was to be demolished. The building with its Mansard roof had quite a distinct character. Heritage Saint-Norbert had it moved first to the X Kalay property and then to Place Saint-Norbert where it was significantly Read more