I’ll Be Very Jealous If You Purchase This Heritage Home!
Hands down, 255 Hanover Street is one of Steinbach’s most beautiful Heritage Homes. Also known in local-history-nerd circles as stop number 9 on the Steinbach […]
History
Steinbach Doesn’t Have a Train Track. Here’s Why.
Take a look at a map, and you’ll see that any community worth its salt will have either A: a river, or B: a train […]
What About Katharina Thiessen? (A.K.A. Mrs. Jacob Barkman)
I was called out! Yes it’s true. I concluded this post with Andrew’s great-great-great-grandfather Jacob Barkman’s death in the Red River in 1875, as if […]
Snooping Into Andrew’s Ancestry, Part 2
Just the other day, I mentioned that I’ve learned that Steinbach’s Kroeker Avenue is named for Andrew’s great-great-great-grandparents. But they’re not his only ancestors of […]
Snooping Into Andrew’s Ancestry, Part 1
It’s no secret that lately I’ve become curious about my own genealogy. But I’ve kind of left Andrew’s alone. (Except for that time that we […]