Ross House Museum
140 Meade St. North R2W 3K5 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Hang in there, Bernie! The Ross House Museum Reopens for our 74th season on June 1st, 2021.

Our little cottage is looking mighty cozy under all that snow!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays of all kinds to you and yours! This amazing Christmas-edition of the Winnipeg Sun from the Ross House Museum archives is actu...ally a re-print given out by the St. Regis Hotel in 1971. It's a double-relic now, as the St. Regis was just demolished exactly one month ago. Obviously senses of humour have changed a little, but kittens are still as adorable as they were 132 years ago!

Check out this awesome virtual tour, with a very special chair from Ross House appearing around the 8:00 minute mark!

Did you know that mail in the Red River Settlement was delivered by dog sled during the winter? Letters bound for the United States were conveyed by dog train to the historic Metis settlement of Pembina. The team was driven by Monsieur Roger Goulet, and later by his brother Élzear Goulet. Ross House, then known as Brookbank, was the settlement’s first post office. More can be read about the Goulet family here: ... http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/65/goulet_e.shtml A description of a dog team leaving Pembina appeared in the Saint Paul Pioneer in 1860: I saw the first dog mail train leave here on last mail day. It consisted of three middling sized dogs. They looked more like wolves than dogs. They had regular harness, very fancifully ornamented, and buckskin saddles, gorgeously worked with beads. The dogs are driven in tandem style. They go from forty to fifty miles per day, the driver trotting behind most of the way. Not only did the Goulet's have to contend with severe cold and piercing winds sharper than a serpents fang, sometimes the team would arrive in Pembina only to find there was no mail to be collected! From the Daily Nor’Wester, After a most uneasy suspense, news has come from Pembina. Worst of all possible news, there is no mail at all for us this month! It is not six weeks since we had our last regular mail, and it may be another fortnight before one reaches us. Letters were to be collected from Ross House, while the names of residents with unclaimed mail were published monthly in the settlements only newspaper, the Nor’Wester.

And now for a truly chilling story that first appeared in the Nor’Wester on August 24th, 1869. The Western Drover’s Story" My name is Anthony Hunt, I am a drover; and I live miles and miles away upon the Western prairie. There wasn’t a house in sight when we moved there, my wife and I, and now we haven’t a great many neighbours, though those we have are good ones. ...Continue reading

Happy Halloween from the Ross House Museum!

We’d like to wish our neighbours across the street at Metro Meats a happy International Bologna Day! Our lives, and belly’s, feel so empty without you. The Ross House Museum’s Euclid Avenue walking tour is now online. Check it out here at: http://www.sevenoakshouse.ca/ross-house-museum.html #walkingtour #winnipeg #museum #meat

Today, the MMF celebrates the 176th birthday of Louis Riel - the founder of the province of Manitoba, a father of Confederation, and the visionary leader of our... Métis Nation. In honour of his legacy, the MMF has created a series of six video vignettes paying tribute to Riel, airing on CTV News throughout the day! Watch all six performance vignettes below, including greetings from MMF Ministers Will Goodon and Andrew Carrier.

Check out this vintage photo of Ross House from 1911 at its original location on Market Street - exterior siding and all! The Mrs. Coldwell the article refers to is Jemima McKenzie Ross Coldwell, pictured here with her second husband William Coldwell. A Métis daughter of Red River, Jemima spent most of her life in Ross House - nearly sixty years! Ross House was moved to its current home in North Point Douglas in 1984.

It's a beautiful day to host the Manitoba Fibre Trail and Doors Open! Our wonderful vendors and tour guides are here until 5, so come drop by. #sevenoaks #kildonan #wpg #winnipeg

Beautiful! Seven Oaks House Museum