by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
At 9:10 a.m., a Fokker Super Universal monoplane piloted by W.J. Buchanan, lifted off from the Western Canada Airways (WCA) field in Winnipeg. The airplane carried four bags that held a first-of-its-ki...
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by Bruce Cherney
On display in the Western Canada Aviation Museum, 958 Ferry Rd., is a Fokker Super Universal monoplane with a storied career in Canadian aviation history that spans the decades from the 1920s to...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The perils of early aviation in Canada’s Far North was made abundantly clear just two days after two
airplanes lifted off from Winnipeg on
August 24, 192...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s Far East Show wasn’t Colonel William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s “last and only appearance” in Winnipeg as p...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The entire crew for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s Far East Show was scheduled to arrive in Winnipeg on August 21, 1910, with the twice daily shows (2 and ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
With the arrival of Major John M. Burke in town, Winnipeggers knew that Buffalo Bill and his troupe of entertainers were finally making an appearance in the prairie city along the banks...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
James Buller, the fugitive sought since November 11, 1920, for the murders of Manitoba Provincial Police (MPP) Chief Morality Officer Alexander McCurdy and MPP Constable James Uttl...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The greatest unsolved mystery of the shootings of the three Manitoba Provincial Police (MPP) morality officers at the Stockyards Hotel in St. Boniface on November 11, 1920, was the iden...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Thanks to a popular television show and a multitude of movies, Treasury agent, or T-man, Elliot Ness and gangster Al “Scarface” Capone are familiar figures from the Pr...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
The following spring, Alec Gudziak, a plant scientist with the University of Manitoba, announced that despite the dire predictions of experts, the Wolseley Elm had indeed survived the winter. Only...
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