Beausejour, Manitoba
Beausejour is a town with 2,800 inhabitants well in the Canadian province of Manitoba, about 60 km northeast of the provincial capital Winnipeg.
Beausejour is the center of the grain trade in the region and some tourism created by the proximity to the Whiteshell Provincial Park. Except in agriculture are employed in enterprises of the provincial capital, many residents.
History
In 1903 in Beausejour, the second oldest Ukrainian church in the province, according to Goner, 1899 where the first originated.
1906 Joseph founded wedge back and its shareholders the Manitoba Glass Works and used the high quality sand deposits in the region. Experienced glassblowers from Poland and the United States produced especially beer bottles for the growing capital Winnipeg. A consortium of businessmen from the capital took over the company in 1909 and extended to 1911 the range of products to pharmacies and writing utensils. At the peak, the company employed about 350 people. In 1913 the company but was acquired by Montreal entrepreneurs who possessed fully automatic production machines and could significantly mobilize more capital, and moved to Redcliff, Alberta. The new facility offered land and a free gas supply. 1989 was taken from the company a Provincial Heritage Site.
On 6 April 1912, the Beausejour was incorporated .. Many residents came from Poland, Ukraine and Germany, mostly from Galicia and Volhynia. With the Beausejour Beaver appeared in Beausejour own weekly newspaper. The Northern Crown Bank established a branch in the town.
In addition to the strong agriculture-based economy is increasingly based on tourism, including the establishment of the Whiteshell Provincial Park contributed. At the southwestern edge of the village there is the 25-hectare Chryplywy Wilderness Park. In 1967 on the initiative of Julian Ilchena the Pioneer Village Museum, which represents a small town dating from around 1900. This includes a log home, a school, Carl Kososki 's shop, tailoring Bill Bryk, the Community Hall, a station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a blacksmith shop, a shop and a built 1904 Catholic, Ukrainian church with bell tower (Holy Trinity Ukrainian Church). In addition, the birthplace of the former prime minister of Manitoba Edward Schreyer comes ( 1969-1977 ). Schreyer taught 1956-1967 at the local Cromwell Public School and Beausejour Collegiate. Overall, the museum houses more than 3,000 artifacts, including a fire truck from the 40s as well as agricultural machinery and equipment.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
5.6 km west-southwest of the town is an airfield, the Beausejour / AV Ranch Airpark.
Media
The Clipper Weekly in place its own weekly newspaper appears.
Education
The public library, the Brokenhead River Regional Public Library, found in 427 Park Avenue. It was opened on 21 November 1981, hosted by its own account 1,200 books. It goes back to an initiative of the Beausejour Women's Institute. By 1984 she was in the Edward Schreyer School, and then moved to its present home, the size of 1994 doubled again. Back in 1996, connected to the Internet, a high-speed connection could be implemented in 2000 with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The national theological education for the Protestant churches of various First Nations serves the Dr. Jessie Saulteaux Resource Centre. It was founded in 1984 as part of an experimental program of the United Church of Canada, 1991, was upgraded to a College of Theology. Originally, the training center was located in the Prairie Christian Training Centre in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, before it moved to the Brokenhead River near Beausejour.