Cottage owners pay school taxes, but they are unable to send their children to cottage country schools and they cannot vote for trustees, as a cottage is only recognized as a secondary residence.
However, they still have the bu...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Apparently, the first flight in Western Canada was only witnessed by a handful of people, since most left as the day grew late and few expected Eugene Ely to rise into the air in his flying machine. Tho...
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The convenient one-hour drive to its beaches is probably the reason Lake Winnipeg cottage country remains one of the most attractive summer get-aways for young families and retirees. Other more distant Canadian recreational areas are losing...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
On February 23, 1909, aviator and airplane designer John Alexander Douglas McCurdy made the first controlled heavier-than-air flight in Canada and the British Empire when he took the Silver-Dart aloft n...
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The Housing Opportunity Partnership was contacted late last year by Don Miedema, the housing co-ordinator for the Spence Neighbourhood Association, who wanted HOP to consider saving a home slated for demolition on Langside to make way for a...
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It seemed logical in the 1950s that the Blue Bombers move from their downtown facility to the suburbs. Blue Bomber president Culver Riley argued that Osborne Stadium was inadequate to the football club’s needs: it lacked suffici...
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New federal laws and regulations dealing with money laundering and anti-terrorist financing now in effect require real estate agents and brokers to collect and verify more personal information from buyers and sellers.
Rea...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
When the Daily Nor’Wester reporter visited the docks, he saw 14 steamers and tugs, as well as smaller craft which brought to Selkirk, “so much wood, timber, fish, minerals, and farm products...
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A brief news item in 1891 said that 9 1/2-year-old “Little Miss Curry” of Winnipeg landed a 20-pound catfish while fishing in the Red River. One hundred and seventeen years later, there will be at least 600 youngsters this summe...
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The number of new listings of homes for sale on the Multiple Listing Service® in Canada’s major markets set a second consecutive monthly record in May 2008, according to statistics released by the Canadian Real Estate Association ...
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