St. Malo

COMMUNITY ASSETS

9Accommodations 4 Food Services 4 Shopping 2 Infrastructure 3 Essential Services

1Historical Sites 0 Arts 4 Festival & Events 2 Museums / Sites of Memory 1 Important Landscapes 0 Galleries, Crafting or Workshops 4 Community Cultural Organizations 10 C U LT U R A L & H I S T O R I C A L ASSETS O U T D O O R R E C R E AT I O N ASSETS 1 Natural 2 Outdoor 1 Eco-tourism 0 Agritourism 1 Golf Course 3 Trails & Spaces 1 Outdoor Attractions 1 Other

Heritage Sites

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Community Assets

ACCOMODATIONS St. Malo Campground 10 bays with overflow camping Two beaches Playground Water fun rentals Barefoot Café

Debonair Campground Seasonal campground

Prairie Sky B and B Bed and breakfast St. Malo Hotel

Nestin’ on Lakeview Bed and Breakfast Canadian German breakfast Dock and beach at St. Malo Lake

Log Haven Lodge Guest cabin to accommodate larger families up to 10 O Roseau Rapids Park Camping Music festivals Métis programming

Prairie Dreamland # 1 and #2

Cabin on St. Malo Lake Air B&B Two cabins available

FOOD SERVICE Grouchy’s Chicken and Pizza St. Malo Hotel Lounge

Triple J’s BBQ Dine-in/take-out restaurant Catering and event company specializing in wood-smoked BBQ The Barefoot Café St. Malo Provincial Park Seasonal Serves lunch, dinner, drinks, coffee and ice cream

SHOPPING St. Malo Pharmacy Full-service pharmacy and gift shop

St. Malo Coop Grocery and department store St. Malo Coop Gas Bar and Convenience Store In La Maison Chapelle Serves coffee Convenience store Gas station Le Marché St. Malo Farmers Market June to September Hotel parking lot Assortment of vendors Known for its fresh donuts

H O S P I TA L I T Y

Friendly and accommodating to visitors.

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ESSENTIAL SERVICES

911 community RCMP Fire Department Iberville Hall St. Malo Community Hall in the Church Basement

PROMOTION ATTR ACTIVENESS

St. Malo Provincial Park RM of De Salaberry Facebook Attractive, trails, beach, wooded areas

Cultural & Historical Assets

HISTORICAL OR ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES St. Malo Roman Catholic Church Built in 1936 – wood structure Beautiful paintings inside

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FE STIVA LS & EV E N TS Breakfast with Santa

St. Malo Fall Supper Held at the end of October St. Malo Family Hockey Tournament Annual weekend in March

Previously St. Malo Festival des Amis St. Malo Summer Festival

MUSEUM / SITES OF MEMORY St. Malo Shrine and Grotto In July 1896, with the help of some parishioners, Noret began working on the project. Brush was cleared and hollows were filled. A small chapel was constructed on the south bank of the river. By 1902, the chapel was replaced by an actual grotto built with fieldstones from the area. Noret, working with David Morin and Léger Lambert, completed the stone walls and the niche of the Madonna. The Stone Story The Crosses of St. Malo The Cross at the Louis Malo Pioneer Site, just north of St. Malo, is the most visible of the four. The large crosses that define historic entry points in the region.

IMPORTANT LANDSCAPES Rat River Lot Settlement

COMMUNITY CULTUR AL ORGANIZATIONS

St. Malo Métis Local

St. Malo and District Wildlife Association A southeastern Manitoba non-profit organization dedicated to wildlife conservation, education and promotion of hunting and fishing. Comité Culturel Saint-Malo French activities and events

St. Malo Chamber of Commerce

HERITAGE SITES

Caisse Populaire Cairn Monument to commemorate 75 years of the founding of Caisse Populaire (a credit union now called Caisse Groupe Financier)

St. Malo Dam Functioning dam that controls water levels in St. Malo Lake. Built by the Prairie RE

La Fournaise Log Home Built in 1872, the La Fournaise House is one of the oldest buildings in the area, and a rare surviving connection to the area’s pioneer roots. Its construction of oak logs, locally cut, reveals early architectural forms and building technologies. Its construction by Gabriel La Fournaise, who married a local Cree woman, is a vital expression of Métis culture in the area. In recent times, the house was carefully dismantled, the logs marked, and then in 1978 reassembled and set it in an oak stand on the property.

The Maynard House A good example of an L-shaped plan with intersecting gambrel roofs. Desrosier Farm House The Desrosier Farm House in St. Malo, features several of the new trends in largescale buildings in rural Manitoba at the time. It is known as a Four-square. The house is large and spacious and its style reflects its square plan and box-like form. Like other houses of its type, the Desrosier house features a large pyramidal roof with gabled dormers that allow light into the attic. The construction of the walls of the house reflects an interesting aspect of Manitoba’s architectural history from this period. Built with formed concrete blocks, from a distance, the walls give the appearance of a grand stone building. The use of formed concrete blocks, also called “imitation stone,” was fairly popular technology between 1890 to 1910.

Wooden Silos The Roger Dandenault Barn and Silo on Rat River Drive in the R.M. of De Salaberry, shows the traditional gable-roofed barn and in the background the new gambrelroofed barn so popular with farmers in the early decades of the 20th century. There are three such barns and silos in De Salaberry: Rat River Drive, Curé Farm and Turenne Farm. In 1943, Hector Dandenault and Joseph Curé put up an impressive wooden silo at the Dandenault Farm.

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Wooden Silos Used to store corn for the dairy operation. This kind of construction required careful attention to detail and a definite comfort with heights. The Turenne Farm Silo, built in 1935, is the oldest of three remaining wooden silos in the R.M. of De Salaberry, and only one of a handful of the traditional wooden silos that still stand in Manitoba. Built for Theophile Turenne and his son Philippe, this evocative farm building was used to store corn, a staple in any area of dairy farming. Like the other De Salaberry silos, the Turenne structure is a very good example of a building technology thought to have been imported from Wisconsin, the heartland of dairy and cheese production in North America. In this version, called the Scantling type, unsheathed walls are formed with overlapping 4”x4” timbers that are about six feet on each of the eight sides and which soar about 40 feet high.

Rat River Farms This plain-looking barn from 1950 is possibly the first facility in Western Canada to be associated with artificial insemination, an important development in agricultural technology. Between 1950-62, on Émile Hébert’s farm, Holstein bulls owned by both federal and provincial departments of agriculture were

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housed to collect semen, which was then tested, stored in vials and packed in dry ice for shipping.

Pankiw Honeyland Farms Honeyland Farms (also known as the Pankiw Honeybee Farm), established in 1920, was one of the first commercial honey operations in Western Canada. It features a distinctive round bee storage building (from 1936) as well as several other structures, including a building where honey was extracted.

Roblin Barn Roblin Farm 1929 – these words appear on a wooden sign on a barn in the Dufrost area. It designates the family home of two notable politicians, both Manitoba premiers: Rodmond and Duff Roblin.

Outdoor Recreation Assets

NATUR AL

The Rat River

OUTDOOR St. Malo Lake and Provincial Park St. Malo Lake and Provincial Park Campground Tubing down the Rat River Starts at the bottom of St. Malo Dam and ends at the bridge on Hwy 59

WILDLIFE VIEWING

Bear, deer, coyotes, rabbits, geese

ECOTOURISM

Fishing and ice fishing at St. Malo Lake

GOLF COURSES

St. Malo Pitch and Putt Golf Course 9 holes Par 3 golf course, varying from 45 to 110 yards

TR AILS & SPACES

St. Malo Trail 4.3 km hiking trail in the St. Malo Provincial Park Crow Wing Trail Section of The Great Trans Canada Trail from Emerson to Winnipeg. Snowmobile trail Voyageur Snow Club

OUTDOOR ATTR ACTIONS OTHER

Senkiw Bridge 15 mins from St. Malo on Crow Wing Trail Dan Di Alpaca Farm Fibre and farm Experience