by Bruce Cherney (part 5 of 5)
An important detail General Sir Frederick Stephenson failed to mention when promoting the overland Suakin-Berber route to relieve the siege of Khartoum, Sudan, was the lack of camels and water in ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 4)
Colonel Willian Francis Butler felt the telegram reprimand he received from General Sir Garnet Wolseley, the British commander of the Sudan campaign, for not awaiting orders, was “a slap in the face.&r...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Lord Melgund wrote to his superior, Canadian Governor General Lord Lansdowne, about Colonel Frederick Denison’s reluctant approval of William Nassau Kennedy’s participation in the Nile campaign. ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
British Prime Minister William Gladstone’s original instructions to General Charles “Chinese” Gordon were “not for the purpose of conquering the Soudan (sic) or to persuade its chiefs...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Sir William Francis Butler was one of a number of British adventurers and soldiers who played a brief, although important, role in the early history of Manitoba and Canada.
Similar to Garnet Wolseley ...
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by Bruce Cherney
When the First World War ended with the Armistice on November 11, 1918, tens of thousand...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
When the ballots for mayor were tallied on January 5, 1874, lawyer Francis Evans Cornish held a 383-179 margin of victory over W.F. Luxton, the publisher of the Manitoba Free Press. But there were obvio...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
For years, according to a Manitoba Historical Society 1969 article, it was believed the inaugural meeting of Winnipeg’s first city council was held on January 19, 1874, in a store at the corner of Port...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3)
Symptomatic of the sentiment that saw protest against Emanuel Hahn’s winning design for the cenotaph was the suppression of Ukrainian and German language newspapers, as well as political and social org...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
The cenotaph committee announced on December 23, 1925, that the winning entry was submitted by Toronto sculptor Emanuel Hahn.
“This design (entry designated No. 33) adopts the cenotaph form sugg...
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