by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
On the prairies, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was omnipresent in the 1880s and 1890s. It held a virtual stranglehold on transportation of grain to market and freight from Eastern Canada to the We...
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by Bruce Cherney
March is more or less a transitional month — not quite signalling the end of winter and not quite the arrival of spring. It can be a relatively warm month or it can be plagued by a spate of cold weather o...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
But with the Canadian protest removed and the IHF giving the two men the green light to play in the Olympic competition, the British had every right to add Foster and Archer to their roster. What did t...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
In a February 18 Associated Press (AP) article, Gustavus T. Kirby, treasurer of the United States Olympic Committee, said Great Britain showed a “lack of sportsmanship” by using Canadian-tr...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Percy Nicklin had coached the two-time Allan Cup winning Moncton Hawks and was lured to England to coach not only the Richmond Hawks of the top English hockey league, but the British Olympic team at Ga...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In the 1936 Winter Olympics, Canada finished first and second in men’s hockey. At least that was the observation of P.J. Mulqueen, the chairman of the Olympic Committee of the Amateur Athletic Un...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
Manitoba women’s hopes of getting the franchise were rekindled when the Liberal Party association endorsed it as official party policy at its March 1914 convention. The only stipulation was ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
Nellie McClung told the audience prior to the beginning of the mock parliament at the Walker Theatre: “Remember, life on the stage here is reversed. Women have the vote while men do not” (M...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The age-old argument that politics would corrupt women was contemptuously scoffed at by Nellie McClung, one of the most renowned suffragettes at the turn of the 20th century in Canada. She countered th...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The politics of suffrage were discussed outside Winnipeg in rural women’s clubs and home economics societies. In Manitoba elections of the era, the rural vote carried substantiall...
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