by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
A suffrage amendment to the Manitoba Election Act, aimed at giving women the vote in the province, was completed by the provincial government in December 1915.
“The bill is pre...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
With the Winnipeg Maple Leafs disbanded, the Winnipeg Shamrocks took the only route available to them to keep playing hockey and went to Edmonton to compete for the Fit-Reform Cup, emblematic of t...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
A blow to the The Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL) came in the first week of January when both the Brandon and Kenora franchises dropped out after playing just one game each. ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Acting Stanley Cup trustee William Foran was in the centre of the controversy involving the Montreal Wanderers’ challenge against the Kenora Thistles for the Stanley Cup. He wired that the dates ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Following the end of the Manitoba Professional Hockey League (MPHL) regular season, the Brandon Wheat Cities were scheduled to face the Kenora Thistles in a play-off series to determine...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Decades before the Jets returned to Winnipeg, professional hockey was played in Manitoba, although only over a brief timeframe. From the very beginning of the league in 1907, teams strove to attract hi...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 6 of 6)
After lunch, the Canadian Press Association excursionists departed for the next stop of their journey at Portage la Prairie, a community with a significantly longer history than Br...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5)
When the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) decided to erect its station at Regina, the company claimed its own chunk of land, leaving the acreage owned by the North West Territories’ Lieutenant-Gove...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
A correspondent for the (Emerson, Manitoba) Gateway Express, who was part of the Canadian Press Association tour of Winnipeg in 1882, commented that, despite the “chilling wind and mud,” wh...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
In his address to the 1882 Canadian Press Association excursionists (read by town clerk John McDougall), Selkirk Mayor James Colcleugh included the typical welcome, but he also told the story about the...
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