Beautiful Plains archives looking for volunteers

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Published on Tuesday, February 24, 2015

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Beautiful Plains Archives is an incorporated not for profit body dedicated to preserving the history of Neepawa and the surrounding area. We have been supported by the Town of Neepawa financially and by the Beautiful Plains County Courthouse Committee with rent free office and storage space. 

We are now in need of volunteers to sit on the board of directors as a couple of directors are retiring. This will involve attending meetings – at most 10 a year and providing input into the management of the operations. Allan Drysdale acts as (paid) archivist and has the office open to the public a half-day each week. He can be contacted at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 204-841-9050.

He looks after the paperwork involved with accepting donations and has much of our collection entered into an on-line database. You can check this out by going to www.mbarchives.ca and click on the search message.

One of the largest acquisitions in 2014 was the donation of over 400 photographs from Canada Salt. Most of these pictures are from the operations here in Neepawa and some on them have names. Anyone who would like to add names to pictures would be welcome to come in and review the collection. Other significant donations this year were the records of the Neepawa Fine Arts festival and the 2014 55+ Summer Games. Records from the Lily Festival will be coming soon.

The largest collections in storage are from the Beautiful Plains School Division, the International Order of Odd Fellows, and the 4-H community. 

Watch for advertisements for the Annual General Meeting coming up later in March.