The Chronicles of Crandall history book was complied by the Crandall History Society and
published in 1971.  The book covers the original districts settled in the area known as Carlingville, Palmerston, Scotia and Chumah.These districts were settled in 1882, a number of years before    the village of Crandall was established.
  The 1872 Free Land Homestead Act encouraged people from eastern provinces to go west.  The promise of a homestead looked inviting and from the towns such as St. Mary's, Campbell's Cross, London, Woodham, Palmerston, and Kirkton, Ontario, they departed for the west to begin the present district of Crandall.
The railroad had been built to Brandon and from there they traveled by horse, some with oxen, and many on foot, searching for a homestead. This was a typical quarter section of land which thehomesteader was required to occupy for six months of the year.  He also had to make improvements such as put up a place of abode, break the sod, etc.
       In the winter of 1882, Benjamin Doupe, Joseph Kirk, Hiram Schmidt, and Thomas Borland left Kirkton and St. Mary's Ontario for western Manitoba.  They followed the trail of earlier pioneers to Hamiota, and moved on past as most of the land had already been homesteaded.  They took up their homesteads in the area that would become known as Carlingville.
  Gradually more settlers began to arrive and such names as the Marks, Johnstons, Crawfords, Rudds, Coxes, Henderson, Hamiltons, Finleys, Irvines, Flemings, Eyers, Stewarts, and Hunts became familiar. Other families soon arrived, the Alfred Dickeys, Samuel Shiers, Samuel Richardsons, and the Ralph Lees.  They were closely followed by Jesse Shiers, Herbert Johnston, Luther Switzer, Ed and Crawford Vances, Crandells, Cowlings, Gunsons, Robinsons and Kennedys.  These people had settled in the Carlingville district before the turn of the century.
                 The Palmerston District, which is located five and a half miles southwest of Crandall, also saw settlers arriving in 1882.  Family names such as Warren, Wallace, Kidd, Hyndman, Douglas and Fennell dot the map.  Many of these early settlers were from Palmerston, Ontario, especially the Warrens, and thats how the district got its name.  They took up their homesteads, building houses from logs taken from the Assiniboine Valley.
                 A group of farm families who had been living on rented farms in the vicinity of St. Mary's, Ontario, decided to pull up stakes and head for Manitoba.  They came west, took up homesteads in what was to become the Scotia district.   They soon were busy building shelters for their families and livestock.

                 The Chumah community began in 1883 with the pioneers coming largely from Huron County, Ontario.  Names such as the Kirks, Hazelwoods, Andrews, Lewis, and Stewarts were the early settlers of this district. How little the early settler realized, that they were making history and that the homesteads they selected would be the homes of their children and grandchildren and down on through the generations.
                 In 1899 the North West Central Railway Company extended the railway through this area to Hamiota.  A year later it was purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.  The people of the district were so thrilled at having a railway for transportation, that they gave up land for the right of way and helped in many ways.  The construction gang camped on land own by Morley Crandell.  Mr. Crandell cut a path through his field of green wheat to where the town
                 of Crandall now stands so that rails could be laid.  Dr. Crandell was living with his son Morley at the time and he became friends with the superintendent.  Because of this the superintendent gave the town the name of Crandell, which was later changed to Crandall.  A station was built and a telegraph office opened in 1900.

Prologue to Settlement
Manitoba Rivers
The Arrow River
Trails
Railways
Surveys and Grants
Municipal Council
Settlement

Recollections
History of Carlingville
The Second  Carlingville School
   Memories of Old Carlingville School Days
Stories of Old Carlingville
History of Palmerston Church
Memories of Palmerston
Palmerston Playgrounds
The Palmerston Pals Club
Palmerston School No. 638
Memories of Teachers
Pearl E. Warren (Jackson)
Lydia Bowles (Rivers)
Elizabeth Bray (McLenehan)
Muriel Paynter
Mabel Mylrea
Evelyn Barrett (Miss MacPherson)
Mrs. H.S Meyers
Palmerston Cairn
Scotia Community
Maple Shade School
Pope
Chumah Community
Chumah School District No. 401

The Growth of Crandall

Services
Mail Service
Doctors and Hospitals
Telephone
Hydro
Transcanada Pipelines Limited
The Town Council
Law and Order
Town of Crandall Churches
Sunday School
Crandall Choir
Women's Missionary Society
Church Groups
Crandall Cemetery
The Canadian Legion
Roll of Honor
Crandall School
Businesses - General
Businesses - Other
Crandall Rinks
Crandall Sports
Associations
Culture
Enterprise
Disasters
Centennial Celebrations
  * includes an small write up and photographs

Golden Weddings
 * only photographs
 Family Histories
 * as listed below

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