Features
Chimney Ridge
In the 1820s, the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company amalgamated. The result was that many of the Métis who had worked for these companies were laid off. Many of them moved to the Saint-Norbert area where they took up farming. There was very little wood for building Read more…
Historic Buildings
Bohemier House
The Bohemier House had been built in 1890 and lived in continuously by members of the Bohemier family. In 1973, a second heritage home in St. Norbert was scheduled to be demolished to make way for an apartment block. The house was examined by the Historic Resources Branch, who recommended Read more…
Historic Buildings
St. Norbert Parish
In 1854, Father Louis LaFleche was assigned to the Mission de la riviere Salle and began to build a church. In 1857, the small mission was elevated to the status of parish and was named “St. Norbert” by Bishop Alexandre-Antonin Tache in honour of the first bishop of St. Boniface Read more…
Historic Buildings
Place Saint-Norbert
At the site of the former orphanage (1905-1948) managed by the Misericordia Sisters, the Saint-Norbert Heritage Group gathered a former butcher shop, a log house, a Red River cart and the La Barrière monument. This monument, which recalls the events of 1869-1870, replaced a simple cross of yesteryear bearing Father Read more…
Historic Buildings
Monastery Guest House
In 1988, as a result of the efforts of Heritage Saint-Norbert, the Province of Manitoba designated the guest house and the surrounding land as a heritage site. That same year, the Guest House and adjacent five acres were purchased from Genstar with a donation from St. Norbert residents William and Read more…
Historic Buildings
Asile Ritchot
The first building on this site, erected sometime in the 1870s, was the home of Joseph Lemay. On his death in 1892, it was donated to the local church and in 1903, Father Noël-Joseph Ritchot arranged the donation of the building and surrounding land to les Soeurs de Misericorde, who Read more…
Historic Buildings
Outdoor Chapel
Ritchot and his parishioners built the chapel (La Chapelle de Notre-Dame-du-Bons-Secours) in 1875, to commemorate the success of the Métis resistance of 1869-70. That dispute, eventually settled through negotiation, resulted in the inclusion of Métis land, language, and school rights in The Manitoba Act of 1870, the basis of the Read more…
Historic Buildings
Banque d’Hochelaga
The building at 932 avenue de l’Eglise, built in 1919, once housed St. Norbert’s first bank, la Banque d’Hochelaga. You can still see the name very faintly on the wall. The building later became a hardware store and then a private residence. More Information Routes on the Red Walking Trail Read more…
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Monastery
Father Ritchot had long hoped to establish a monastery on a secluded piece of parish land along the La Salle River. In 1891, Ritchot’s hopes were realized. He and Archbishop Taché of St. Boniface persuaded the Abbot of Bellefontaine, France, to establish a home for Trappist monks in St. Norbert. Read more…