National Post national affairs columnist Don Martin has weighed in on emerging developments in civic elections across the country. His opinions on the civic front occurrred during a lull in federal politics, which he normally covers, as the H...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Provisional government Adjutant-General Ambroise Lépine declared that since the majority of the “Council of War” had voted guilty, Thomas Scott’s execution would proceed at noo...
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by Bruce Cherney
It was a mystery that would have tested the skills of a detective with the shrewdness of the fictional Sherlock Holmes. But, a cold trail and an absence of hard facts means the case remains mostly unresolved to this ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
For decades, the Lawrie Wagon and Carriage Company satisfied its customers by precisely filling their orders for customized handcrafted vehicle bodies placed on various factory-bui...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
At Winnipeg Beach, the first passengers to arrive at the depot on the inaugural train run to the resort community created by the Canadian Pacific Railway disembarked and walked towards a sandy beach. Al...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
The Voice, a Winnipeg-based labour newspaper, contained a column on June 30, 1913, that defended James Shaver Woodsworth and attacked the Winnipeg Telegram for casting “calumnious...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The aviators searching for the eight missing members of the Colonel Cyril D.H. MacAlpine expedition had their base at Baker Lake, Nunavut. By the end of their effort, the would-be ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
A December 1913 letter, signed by J.F. Kennedy, the secretary of the Merchants’ Association of Canada, Winnipeg branch, demanded that city council no longer provide funding f...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
A September 5, 1953, Free Press front-page article entitled, Small in Number, A ‘Fighting’ Few Stand Polio Siege, by Lyn Chandler, described the arduous duties of nurses and staff at King George ...
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by Bruce Cherney
The University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections has recently digitalized portions of its collection that can now be found at umanitoba.ca/libraries/ units/ archives.
On the website are photos and...
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