by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The Manitoba Free Press said American Thiel Detective Agency strikebreaker A.G. Cardwell’s brutal acts in the first days of the 1906 streetcar strike was just “one of the many actions on the part...
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Ian Dmytriw’s dream is to one day emulate his hero Billy Bridges and play in the Paralympic Winter Games for Canada.
Bridges is noted among international sledge hockey players for his hard shot. Fifteen-year-old Ian said one re...
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A Financial Times article concluded that the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland, spreading clouds of ash toward Britain and the Netherlands, grounding aircraft in Europe and cancelling flights from other continents, is Iceland’...
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Using a $75,000 grant from American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, Winnipeg built its first public library building on William Avenue, which was officially opened on October 11,1905, by Canadian Governor General Earl Gre...
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by Todd Lewys
As a REALTOR® who specializes in Winnipeg’s West End, Frank Zappia knows the area intimately.
So when a landlord (one of the good ones in the area) told him he was tired of looking at a derelict ancient...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Provincial Police Magistrate Alexander McMicken admitted to the Free Press that he had sworn-in the “special constables” at the request of the Winnipeg Electric Railway Company and not civic auth...
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The latest Royal LePage House Price Survey shows strong price appreciation across all housing types in Winnipeg for both the first quarter of 2010 and year-over-year.
Winnipeg’s real estate market continues to prosper in 2010 d...
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Ultimately, glacial Lake Agassiz was a blessing for Manitoba, providing today’s province with thousands of kilometres of beachfront on which to erect cottages as well as numerous lakes that are a resource for commercial fishing and re...
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As with other professionals, a REALTOR® is as good as the information at his or her disposal. As a REALTOR® member of WinnipegREALTORS®, a salesperson is required to be a full-time professional, which entails keeping up on all t...
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by Bruce Cherney
The mob’s anger had been approaching the boiling point for hours and then went beyond when they saw the source of their malice coming down the streetcar rails. Shortly after 8 o’clock in the evening on Ma...
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