by Bruce Cherney
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 anniversary o...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
It wasn’t until April 2, 1907, that Mayor James Ashdown announced to a Winnipeg Tribune reporter that the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) and the Grand Truck Pacific (GTP) would build a “union&r...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5)
Winnipeg newspapers claimed several factors lead to city council’s decision to permanently close East Broadway and hand over the city-owned land east of Main Street to the Canadian Nothern Railway (CNoR).
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
At a special meeting on July 14, 1904, it became evident that the majority of city aldermen (today’s councillors) were in favour of the bylaw to permanently close East Broadway, the section of road east of ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
A common complaint issued by those opposed to the Canadian Northern Railway’s (CNoR) proposal to close East Broadway was that railway companies were running roughshod over public interests with the eager su...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The Canadian Northern Railway’s (CNoR) Hugh Sutherland approached city council in 1903 with a proposal to close the eastern extension of Broadway, the wide thoroughfare that continued across Main Street to ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Prior to 1904, Broadway didn’t abruptly end at Main Street, but continued down to the west bank of the Red River. It was a natural place for Broadway to end, since it was the link on the Winnipeg side of th...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
The Keenora was among three boats stymied by a snow slush at the mouth of the Red River in the fall of 1952. The other vessels were the Chickama also owned by the Selkirk Navigation Company with its crew of ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
The SS Keenora served for decades as a lifeline to the outside world for otherwise isolated Lake Winnipeg communities. Without the vessel’s ability to carry 200-tons of freight during its weekly trips north...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
T.C.B. Boon wrote about a trip he took aboard the SS Keenora in the first year of its operation on Lake Winnipeg (Winnipeg Free Press, May 23, 1966). His account vividly describes the importance of boat traffic t...
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