by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Canadian National Railway (CNR) announced on Monday, August 14, 1950, that the company intended to sell a portion of its property in Grand Beach, the resort community that began life fo...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The fortunes of the Dr. A.W. Hager’s Paris Circus, the first circus ever to perform in Manitoba, were delivered another financial blow when a rain downpour caused shows to be...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It didn’t bear the more famous P.T. Barnum or Sells Brothers names, but Winnipeggers were still excited that a circus was coming to town for the first time in the community’...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
J.W. McLane may have been soliciting public support for his bid to continue operating the Winnipeg-St. Boniface Ferry, but on March 15, 1878, Robert Tait was awarded the ferry lice...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
A reporter for the Manitoban wrote a June 28, 1873, article about his experiences with the Winnipeg and St. Boniface Ferry. “The man at present in charge of the ferry,” rela...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Winnipeg came to life as a child of its two major rivers — the Red and Assiniboine. In particular, it was the meeting of the two rivers that allowed Winnipeg to emerge as the &ldq...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The fact that so many Japanese Fu-Go balloons or balloon fragments and bombs were recovered in Canada and the U.S. was an indication of the failure of all 32 sandbag ballasts to be...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney
The manager of the Hudson’s Bay Company post at Oxford House, Manitoba, 560 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, watched in amazement as an object fell from the sky. He rushed to the scene ab...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
During the “Battle of the Affidavits,” Winnipeg Liberal MLA Thomas Johnson produced an affidavit on February 19, 1914, from William Sutherland of Ashern, an individual ...
View Article
by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Conservative candidate Edmund L. Taylor’s victory was so decisive over his opponent in the 1913 Gimli byelection that Liberal banner-bearer, Arni Eggertsson, lost his $200 candida...
View Article
