Communities Cairns/Signs – Carman Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee

Almassippi Post Office -The sign was erected in 2003 by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.

Barnsley 2013 – A post office opened at Barnsley in 1887 and continued until 1916 when rural delivery was introduced.

Bates Town Site -This sign was erected in 2003 by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.

Bradburn -Located on NW 27-7-5w, seven miles northwest of Carman, on the Canadian Northern Railway. The community was named after a local homesteader and businessman, Thomas Bradburn.

Salterville -This sign was erected in 2003 by the Carman/Dufferin Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.

St. Daniel -Roman Catholic missionary priests from the St. Francis Xavier mission ministered to Métis families in this area north of the Boyne River, then known as Îlets-de-Bois, as early as the 1830s

Many early settlements consisted of a post office located in the postmaster’s home with perhaps a store, school, or church and forming a focal point for settlers in the nearby catchment area. When the railway came through the area, some settlements moved to closer proximity with the new lifeline; others slowly vanished from all but local memory.

The following ‘lost’ communities have been commemorated by signs and cairns erected by the CD MHAC or by local residents:

Almassippi
Barnsley
Bates
Bradburn
Salterville
St. Daniel