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The Rural Municipality's name Siglunes was named after a place in Iceland called Siglufjordor.
2003
Ashern Pioneer Museum grounds

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Hern poses in front of the Municpal office, the scene of many historical transactions.

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Siglunes got it's name from a place in Iceland called Sigufjordur.
1918

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The Siglunes community was named after a place in Iceland called Siglufjordor

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Steamboats were a common sight on Lake Manitoba as a means of transportation.
1900
Lake Manitoba

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The people mainly came to the Narrows at first by Steamboats. Then the railroad was built through where Ashern is now. The railroad landing was called Dodd's Siding and 7th Siding before they named the town after me in 1918. In 1911 and 1912 lots of settlers came but by 1920 many left. Why?

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Land Settlement Opportunities in the Area.
1918
R.M. of Siglunes building on the Ashern Pioneer Museum grounds

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When Manitoba was being settled the southern parts filled up first taking the best grain growing farmlands. The government wanted to bring more people in to settle other areas as well. Rural Municipalities began to publish advertisements such as this to let potential settlers know what the area had to offer.
The RM of Siglunes and Woodlea put out this booklet around 1930.
"It all sounded so positive but perhaps the difficulties were minimized for a price."

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Page 11 of Land Settlement Opportunities discuses the possibilities of the district.
1918

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Skit based on the promotion of the land in the R.M. of Sigulunes.
2000
Ashern Pioneer Museum grounds

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An official might offer a farmer incentive to speak in a positive of the merits of the area!

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This building was the Municipal Office in Ashern from 1919 to 1963.
2003
Formally located on Main Street now at the Museum grounds

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The Municipal office was the place people came to pay taxes and ask for improvements. The councilors and reeve were the people that dealt with requests, grievances and disputes between neighbors. In 1938 the council intervened in a dispute between two neighbors. The whole situation became the subject of a poem............

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'Farmer Brown had a pig. The pig it liked to roam.'
7 September 2003
Ashern Railway Station on Museum grounds