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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS 49.8 feature piece on exploring the Manitoba Museum's role in collecting and caring for a vast number of artifacts from around Manitoba, and how much of that comes from things in our backyards. Photo of Minister Ian Wishart on his farm near Portage la Prairie MB, next to a century old building on his farm very similar to the home that had "No Votes for Women" painted on it during women's suffrage in early 1900's. The home stood at another location at that time and later was moved to his property as a out building many years later. The sign was 8x10 feet in height. A number of years ago Minister Ian Wishart was renovating an old family barn (once a families home on another property) near Portage la Prairie MB, when he discovered what the Manitoba Museum now calls its most special artifact in relation to women's suffrage -- a former chunk of siding on which a previous owner had painted NO VOTES FOR WOMEN, broadcasting his opposition to anyone driving by. See Melissa Martin story. July 28,, 2017