by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The Friends of Oak Hammock Marsh were supported by powerful allies also expressing opposition to the revised Ducks Unlimited (DU) Canada project at the former St. Andrews Bog, such as the American Orn...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
You probably hear them before they are seen. But gazing skyward, searching for the source of the plaintive calls, one of the more common sights of a Manitoba fall is soon revealed. Geese at this time of ye...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 pf 4)
Anyone travelling across the plains during the years of mass destruction would come across a landscape littered with rotting buffalo flesh, as most commercial hunters only took the hides and tongues f...
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“‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
“‘To talk of many things:
“‘Of shoes — and ships — and sealing wax —
“Of cabbages — and kings R...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Archaeological evidence shows that aboriginal hunters were driving buffalo over steep riverbanks in the Hartney, Lauder and Melita areas along the Souris River in Manitoba. But by the 1860s, only scattered...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The presence of buffalo was the primary reason early aboriginal hunters came to the Assiniboine and Souris river valleys of Manitoba. In the summer, vast herds of buffalo aggregated on the Northern Plains,...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
At one time, they numbered in the millions. As a herd migrated to new grazing grounds, the beasts stirred up an all-enveloping cloud of dust, and their hooves made the prairie echo with a sound similar to ...
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by Bruce Cherney
Former Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin was among a generation of politicians who had been elected under a proportional system. Before he passed away on May 30, 2010, Roblin told the Winnipeg Real Estate News, he was n...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
Englishman Alfie Shrubb spent the day advising workmen on how to prepare the track in the Arena Rink on Bannatyne Avenue, “just west of the General Hospital,” for his race against Canadian...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
After easily defeating J.F. Fitzgerald, Alfred “the Little Wonder” Shrubb’s next race was against 24-year-old Paul Acoose, an Ojibway runner from the Sakiway First Nation in the Qu’...
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