In a previous blog on the official opening of the Niverville Historical/Cultural Space Museum on September 30, 2021, the very first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, it was mentioned that Joseph Wiebe, an Associate Professor of Religion and Ecology in Ethics and Global Studies at the University of Alberta was hired by the Town of Niverville to plan and to organize the space in this museum.  Joining him was an ad hoc group of local amateur history supporters and advocates who came alongside and served on a volunteer basis. The Town of Niverville had pretty much extended its resources just to get the Historical/Cultural Museum up-and-running, but these local history devotees decided that they would like to see the museum enhanced by a symbolic icon that could in a single representation speak to the pre-settlement and post-settlement content of the history lesson conveyed within the museum itself.  Upon reflection, it seemed clear that an icon such as the Métis Red River Car

  Niverville's new  Community Resource and Recreation Centre i s a community project that has been made possible by the generous contributions of local Residents, Businesses, the Town of Niverville, the Provincial Government of Manitoba and the Federal Government of Canada.  One of the Federal Government's stipulations before they would commit to providing grant money was to insist that a  Cultural/Historical Space  be made in this building to honour the history of both pre-settlement as well as post-settlement people groups that have had a connection to the land that we live on both in and around the present-day community of Niverville.   The Town of Niverville subsequently hired Joseph Wiebe, an Associate Professor of Religion and Ecology in Ethics and Global Studies at the University of Alberta to organize the Cultural/ Historical Space along with a local ad hoc committee of interested volunteers. On July 1, 2021, with covid restrictions still in place, the new  Nivervill