With support and a financial grant from the Winnipeg Foundation, and the dedicated efforts of MTHA volunteers, the mobile TRANSIT MUSEUM BUS features an extensive gathering of heritage artifacts sorted by collection type including photographs, uniforms, badges, tickets, passes and video clips.
The Museum Bus is available for display at various local cars shows, community festivals, senior centres and schools.
Book a visit for your school, senior centre or car show today.
The Manitoba Transit Heritage Association cares for and maintains the personal collection of the late transit historian and founding MTHA member John E. Baker. The collection of photographs, slides, books, magazines, papers, research, drawings, original documents represents a life's work studying and preserving the history of transit in Winnipeg.
The John E. Baker Collection
The Manitoba Transit Heritage Association maintains a collection of photographs, slides and postcards donated by the late William A. Luke, journalist and bus industry historian. Bill was involved in the bus industry for his entire life, beginning his career in 1948 with Jefferson Bus Lines in Minneapolis and later managing the operations of Empire Bus Lines in Spokane. Bill, predeceased by his wife Adelene, together established Bus Ride magazine in 1965, which has become one of the prominent trade journals of the bus industry. Bill and Adelene travelled extensively across the United States, Canada and 70 countries around the world exploring and documenting bus transportation systems. Bill donated many of his fine photographs from his many visits to Winnipeg to the MTHA collection.
The William A. Luke Collection
Together with one of our fully restored authentic vintage fleet buses, Manitoba Transit Heritage Association volunteers can now bring this mobile museum to your organization for a small donation.
To arrange a booking simply e-mail us a request.
A handy online source of historical information about the local transit systems and intercity bus companies and their operations in the Province of Manitoba. Click on the "Learn More" buttons below for detailed information.
Donated Collections
Transit Museum Bus
Discover the stories that moved a province
Manitoba Intercity Services
A pictorial history in chronological order of intercity scheduled bus service in Manitoba.
Winnipeg Transit
A pictorial history of Winnipeg's public transit service in chronological order.
Brandon Transit
A pictorial history of Brandon's public transit service in chronological order.
Selkirk Transit
A pictorial history of Selkirk's public transit service in chonological order.
Thompson Transit
A pictorial history of Thompson's public transit service in chonological order.
Flin Flon Transit
A pictorial history of Flin Flon's public transit service in chonological order.
History on the move.
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