The Ashern area is an ideal place to raise a family, settle in for retirement or start a business. Being a major trade centre for the Northwest Interlake, we have a growing municipality and welcome new citizens to share in the relaxed country lifestyle.
The City of Winnipeg Museums BoardThe role of the City of Winnipeg Museums Board is to implement the City's Heritage Preservation Policy to ensure the ongoing preservation of Winnipeg's museums resources and assets, and to audit the ongoing operations of the museums that receive grant funds and in-kind services from the City.This Board came into effect in 2007, after a May 17, 2006 Council Decision , and the ongoing budgeted museum funds were transferred to it, including the funds for Dalnavert, the Children's Museum, The Manitoba Museum, the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre, and the Western Canada Aviation Museum, for distribution as grants by Council.The mandate and legal structure of the City of Winnipeg Museums Board can be found here, and feel free to catch-up with our agendas and dispositions.Citizens are free to apply for a position on the City of Winnipeg Museums Board. Appointments can be made for up to a 3-year term basis. Openings will be posted on the City of Winnipeg Boards & Commissions page.The Board's City of Winnipeg agendas and disposition
St. Andrews Heritage CentreIt all started with a local history book...St. Andrews Heritage Centre began as a volunteer group that was formed in the early 1980s to write a book called Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry (published in 1982) to celebrate the RM of St. Andrews centennial . In 1998 they decided to write a sequel called Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry - A Sequel to celebrate the millennium year 2000. It was published in 2000.In 2005, in honour of the 125th anniversary of the RM of St. Andrews, the group was provided a former fire hall to start a museum at 6 Riverview Avenue off St. Andrews Road in St. Andrews, Manitoba.In the summer of 2013, after lengthy negotiations with Parks Canad,a St. Andrews Heritage Centre moved around the corner to St. Andrews Rectory National Historic site (completed in 1854).St. Andrews Rectory, 374 River Road, St. Andrews, ManitobaVolunteer Board Members