by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The “Wild Women,” who successfully defended the Wolseley Elm from being felled by saws and axes, became international celebrities. Life magazine on October 7, 1957, featured...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
For 26 minutes, a raucous debate pitted those who supported saving a lone tree on a single street against those who believed that their mission was to have it hacked down in the name of...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In the same year that the Kitty was lost in Hudson Strait, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) ordered its first largescale freight consignment from St. Paul, which was the initia...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The ill-fated Sir John Franklin expedition is the best known of the Arctic tragedies that have claimed ships and crews. While Parks Canada continues its search for the ships HMS Erebus ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
After reaching Jimmy Robinson’s Sports Afield Lodge along the shore of Lake Manitoba on Friday, September 23, 1938, Clark Gable put on a pair of slippers and made himse...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
It was a year before the movie-going public would hear him utter the famous line to Vivien Leigh in the role of Scarlet O’Hara, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In the prelude to the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a massive artillery barrage managed to take out much of the enemy's artillery. As a result of the lack of German artillery, the Cana...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Sir Arthur Currie wasn’t your run-of-the-mill REALTOR®. In fact, he is now regarded by most historians as Canada’s most successful general of the modern era. ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
On May 27, 1899, hangman John Radcliffe pulled the lever and the trap door swung open. The ropes became taut and Wasyl Guszczak and Simeon Czuby were hanged for the brutal murders of Wasyl Bojeczk...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
One day before his execution for the murders in Stuartburn of Wasyl Bojeczko and his four children, Wasyl Guszczak told his guards that it had never been his intention to make good his ...
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