by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
Golfers are noted for eagerly anticipating the return of spring and their first opportunity to head out to the golf course and send a few balls aloft. “There is no stopping an enthusiastic golfe...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
The course along Roblin Boulevard and Haney Street built by the Winnipeg Golf Club (WGC) was taken over by the Alcrest Golf Club, which at the time only had about 10 members, the remnant of those who didn&...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Members of the Winnipeg Golf Club (WGC), established in 1894 as the city’s first club dedicated to the “royal and ancient game,” proved to be wandering spirits, who were never content to ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part2)
The Winnipeg Golf Club’s Norwood nine-hole golf course, the first ever links in the city, officially opened on Saturday afternoon, July 21, 1894. To mark the occasion, a large tent was erected a...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
With driver in hand, the golfer swung, striking the ball and sending it soaring upward. When it hit the ground, the ball bounced once, twice and then disappeared. Cursing, the golfer had observed his ball&...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 5of 5)
The detrimental effect of combines on the Harvest Excursions was evident as early as 1928. The Manitoba Free Press reported on August 30 that “a considerable number of the harvesters brought to t...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
During the years just prior to the outbreak of the First World War, there was an ever-increasing demand for Harvest Excursionists to help with the grain harvest on the prairies. Farmers were expanding thei...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
At the turn of the 20th century, it was projected that Manitoba would each year require over 10,000 eastern labourers for the harvest, but Manitoba farmers claimed they were receiving far fewer men than ne...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Golden fields of grain swaying majestically in a prairie breeze, ripe for harvest and befitting the commonly-proclaimed rank of “King Wheat” was big news in Winnipeg and Manitoba, as was the thou...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The first of four trains scheduled to arrive at the Canadian Pacific Railway station in Winnipeg from St. John’s, New Brunswick, was late. The train had been slated to pull into the Higgins Avenue de...
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