A new historical site is taking shape in Niverville, where a team of high school students and local builders are working together to preserve a piece of the town’s past.
At the center of the project is a timber frame canopy going up over a long-lost CP well, now rediscovered and being restored as a future tourist and heritage attraction.
Former town councillor John Funk, who was approached by the Steinbach Regional Secondary School (SRSS) about the project two years ago, says the journey to get to this point hasn’t been simple.
“Initially, they wanted me to do it, and I even said yes,” said Funk, who ran his own construction company for many years. “But when I priced it out a year and a half ago or two years ago, I could …