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Archive : August 2007
Minnesota’s Canadian connection — state capital St. Paul founded by Red River settlers
by Bruce Cherney
During the critical year of 1816 for the Red River Settlement, the North West Company had ordered Charles Bottineau to make himself available for attacks against the colonists brought from Ireland and Scotland by Lor...
Marvellous Milt
Winnipeg and Manitoba are football crazy. Two reasons for consecutive capacity crowds at Canad Inns Stadium are the Big Blue’s winning record and the fact the team sits atop the CFL’s East Division standings. But another reason ...
Four straight months of national housing market records
National MLS® resale housing activity set a fourth consecutive monthly record in July, according to statistics
recently released by the Canadian Real
Estate Association.
Seasonally-adjusted sales numbere...
Whatever happened to the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition?
by Bruce Cherney
A year earlier the throng of people gathered at the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition grounds had been disappointed, but the next year they were thrilled to witness a first-of-its-kind feat in their city.
“...
Mixed signals given on signage
The WinnipegREALTORS® Association made a formal presentation during the city’s recent standing committee for property and development hearing on its new zoning bylaw that will regulate and shape all future land use in the city, ex...
Superhighway to Hell?
How could a simple map create such a hullabaloo?
The map, released a couple of years ago by North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition Inc. (NASCO), showed a superhighway running from Mexico across the heartland of the United Stat...
Revised forecasts predict record-breaking home sales
Fueled by record activity levels in the first half of the year, national MLS® home sales activity is expected to reach record levels again in 2007, according to a new residential forecast prepared by the Canadian Real Estate Association...
Revised housing predictions for 2007
At the end of 2006, Canadian Real Estate Association’s economist Gregory Klump and other real estate market analysts had a sense that the real estate market in 2007, particularly the MLS® market, would not be quite as robust...
The Buffalo Wool Company — “The scheme became a laughing stock in England
by Bruce Cherney
John Pritchard thought he had a good idea that had the potential to be a very bad idea for the massive herds of buffalo then roaming the Great Plains of North America.
“Why wait any longer for a pr...