by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
During 1874, the “year of the locusts,” millions, if not billions, of individual insects, acting as groups of giant super-organisms, descended on settlers’ fields acro...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
Drops in elevation encountered further up the Winnipeg River by the 1823 American military-scientific expedition were called Petite Point de Bois and Jack’s Falls by William ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
When the cornerstone for Winnipeg’s first city hall and civic market was laid during a ceremony on August 17, 1875, it contained a casket which included among its contents numerou...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
The military-scientific expedition, commissioned by U.S. Secretary of War John C. Calhoun and led by Major Stephen H. Long, began its canoe trek down the Winnipeg River on August 20, 1823, taking the f...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
William H. Keating, a member of the 1823 American expedition that had surveyed the 49th Parallel near Pembina, when travelling north to the Red River Settlement aboard a barge, observed...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
On the orders of United States Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, an invasion of Canada was launched in 1823, the first since the War of 1812. While successive invasions of Canada had been repulsed dur...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The residents of Emerson were greeted by a scene more reminiscent of Venice, Italy, than a community situated in the midst of a prairie landscape. But instead of a gondola, ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The massive blizzard that struck on Thursday, March 24, and Friday, March 25, 1904, was noted by old-timers as being the worst to hit Manitoba in 22 years. The snow storm, accompan...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
According to the age-old adage, if March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb, and vice versa.
After years of weather observation, old-timers might swear by the...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
With New Brunswick skip Nick Thibodeau’s errant last rock striking one of the boards dividing the ice sheets at Winnipeg’s Amphitheatre Arena, Saskatchewan scored two a...
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