by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
In other segments of his famous role as the “Inebriate,” Charlie Chaplin chases an awful singer off the stage, groans at a ham actor, imagines a pretty soubrette is singing directly to him, and finall...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Charlie Chaplin, the British comedian, who by the time he arrived in Winnipeg had become a star on the North American vaudeville circuit, appeared in The Wow Wows at the Empress Theatre on Portage Avenue East. Th...
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by Bruce Cherney
After conquering British music halls, he was poised to lay siege to the theatres of the New World and claim his share of vaudeville fame. At the time, vaudeville was the popular entertainment medium, and Winnipeg played a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
The “Roaring Twenties” was a period when the automobile was coming into vogue as a means of personal transportation — vehicles, such as the Model-T, were becoming more affordable to many wo...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5)
Poised on the car’s running board, the constable was about to jump aboard another car containing two men intent upon evading capture. Both the police car and the rum-runners’ auto swerved wildly on th...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
According to testimony at a 1927 Royal Commission hearing, Canadian customs officer Cyril Knowles ordered the cars of the three American rum-runners seized as required by law for failure to report to customs upon...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
In 1921, liquor bound for the U.S. may have been subject to seizure under an interpretation of the terms of the Manitoba Temperance Act, but by 1924 buying liquor in the province for export was a legal activity, ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
In a scene reminiscent of the HBO series about Prohibition Era bootleggers, Boardwalk Empire, it was reported that one of the Winnipeg victims of the liquor and three-car hijacking in North Dakota, who had been m...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Rum-running during the Prohibition Era was quite lucrative on both sides of the United States-Canada border. While Windsor, Ontario, on the Canadian side, with its connection to Detroit, Michigan, on the American...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Note: The following article first appeared in the Real Estate News on November 8, 2002. Since the article was first published, new information has been obtained. With the commemoration this year of the 100th...
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