by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
A few months after the spectacular collapse of the real estate boom in April 1882, over 100 members of the Canadian Press Association descended on Winnipeg for a tour of the Canadian Pa...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
A year after the first Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) train crossed the newly-built Louise Bridge on July 26,1881, members of the Canadian Press Association travelled on the company&rsq...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
Not all court cases involving prostitutes and houses of ill-fame resulted in the charges being dismissed. Samuel Levi was fined and imprisoned for using his bathhouse at the corner of Dufferin Ave...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
The women in the Langside bawdy houses protected themselves by discharging revolvers through broken windows in the direction of the angry mob amassed in front of their establishments. W...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The January 9, 1904, raid on the Thomas Street red light district ordered by the police commission was organized by Police Chief John McRae and Sargeant-Major Munro. The constables invo...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Winnipeg Alderman (now councillor) John Russell had a valid argument when he asserted during a council meeting that the ministerial association solely persecuted the women involve...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In an earlier era, city police tacitly condoned prostitution by relegating brothels to a specific neighbourhood that was officially referred to as the “segregated district.”...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
Canadian National Railway (CNR) officials said they had made an offer that would have allowed Grand Beach cottagers to purchase the lots they were leasing from the railway in 1958 (Free Press, Aug...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The railway that owned and ran Grand Beach was in financial difficulty by 1918, just four years after the Canadian Northern Railway’s (CNoR) majority shareholders, William Mackenz...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The first Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) summer excursions to the new resort at Grand Beach were announced for June 28, 1915, with three trains leaving Winnipeg at 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m. a...
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