by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
As he stood on the front steps of the Manitoba Legislature, Premier John Norquay was beseeched by the angry crowd of 4,000 demonstrators to explain the attorney-general’s handling of the “...
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by Bruce Cherney
It is said in ancient mythology that when the Greek sea god Poseidon was in a bad mood, he caused the earth to shake. On Wednesday, April 18, 1906, at 5:12 a.m., the people of San Francisco felt the anger of Poseid...
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by Bruce Cherney
Dan Shaw has in his possession a significant piece of Winnipeg’s early automotive history as well as a memento of the early development of one of Winnipeg’s more prestigious suburbs.
Af...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4 of 4)
With four cars having perfect scores at the completion of the endurance jaunt to Brandon and back to Winnipeg, the decision was reached to stage a run to Portage la Prairie in order to bre...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
As the cars entered in the 1908 Oldsmobile Trophy endurance run
approached Brandon, they had to climb over a steep hill created by the erection of a temporary railway bridge over the Assin...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
When the car tour to Brandon was initiated by the Winnipeg Automobile Club, it was appropriately renamed an “endurance run” due to the extremely poor condition of roads in rural Manitoba. A ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Stones were his sole weapon, but the man was undaunted and prepared to throw his missiles to prevent the “horseless carriage” from spooking his team of horses. Upon encountering the automobile ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
The fate of the Winnipeg headquarters of the Bull Tractor Company of Canada and its factory in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) was decided by the problems confronting its parent company across the borde...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
In 1910, the Gas Traction Company of Winnipeg, a branch plant of the Minneapolis-based Gas Traction Company, was established. The Minneapolis company started out as the Transit Thresher Company in 1906, bu...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Six “agricultural motors” lumbered out from the Winnipeg Industrial Exhibition grounds immediately north of the Canadian Pacific Railway yards to take part in a highly-anticipated plowing conte...
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