by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
It was announced in the April 11, 1919, Winnipeg Tribune that Fred Hilson, a local auctioneer who operated out of a building at the corner of Ellice Avenue and Hargrave Street, had purchased the ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Lake Winnipeg is noted for the mighty blows which pile up waves that pitch any boats in their path tither and yon in a seemingly endless roller-coaster ride. For any embattled boat encountering gale-force winds a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
In the very first issue of the Nor’Wester, published on December 28, 1859, editors William Buckingham and William Coldwell were somewhat vague about their political leanings, but they hinted...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
“The alarm at the arrival of the editors (William Buckingham and William Coldwell from the East) recalls the early Winnipeg story of a prominent citizen going down Main Street with his little son...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It was an inauspicious start to what was to be a new venture in the Red River Settlement, which was later explained at a dinner meeting of the Manitoba Press Club by William Coldwell, who, along with W...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Reginald Robinson gained the wrath of Canadian editors, who wrote that his highly-exaggerated — if not outright fictional — dispatches to U.S. newspapers brought disrepute to the natio...
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by Bruce Cherney (part1)
In the realm of journalistic exaggeration, few could match the tall tales told by Reginald Robinson, a Winnipeg-based correspondent for a number of U.S. newspapers. It was said of Robinson that he...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
William Fisher Luxton said the Manitoba Free Press (now Winnipeg Free Press) had shown a healthy $15,990.60 profit in 1892, but that wasn’t enough for the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Do...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
It was on Saturday, September 25, that the news of Frederick Edward Molyneux St. John’s appointment to replace William Fisher Luxton as editor of the Manitoba Free Press finally became public kno...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
William Fisher Luxton’s attacks on the Canadian
Pacific Railway (CPR) have since been termed “quixotic.” Indeed, his battle against the CPR eventually led to his downfall...
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