Albert Contant is credited with being the first Manitoban to build from scratch and successfully fly an airplane, although he had some competition from William “Bill” Straith, another pioneer aviator.
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Edwin Kelsey's Helicopter didn't make it past the model stage. Although the model flew, there was no attempt to build a full-scale version.
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It's one thing to catch the flying bug, but it's quite another to get a workable flying machine into the air. That's what the Winnipeg-based Aero Club of Canada quickly discovered in 1909.
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Pilot Hector Dougall and mechanic Frank Ellis of the Canadian Aircraft Company were undaunted by the task of being the first to fly beyond the 53rd Parallel.
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The Canadian Aircraft Company Ltd., with a downtown office in the Aikins Building and a hangar at the St. Charles Aerodrome, billed itself in 1920 as the “Pioneer Winnipeg Company.”
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Danish Captain Jens Munk and the two other survivors of the deadly winter stay in 1619-20 at the mouth of the Churchill River, out of a two-ship crew of 65 men, had no other option to reach Denmark than the sloop Lamprey.
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On September 7, 1619, Jens Munk had found the only natural harbour on the western shore of Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Churchill River, which he aptly named Munkhavn (Munk Haven) ...
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The early quests for the fabled Northwest Passage were driven by the European obsession for the legendary riches of the Orient, denied to them by the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
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by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
The alleged friend of William Farr, the prisoner facing charges in the Manitoba Court of Assizes in November 1895, including arson and the attempted murder of his wife and four children, who signed his nam...
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During the trial, the small courthouse was filled to capacity, indicating the wide-spread public interest in this sensational and headline-grabbing case.
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