by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
When the fire broke out on December 3 in the Manitoba Parliament situated in the home of A.G.B. Bannatyne, hundreds of people — Winnipeg’s population was just 3,500 in 1873 — surrounde...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Five years after the disaster, the Quiz newspaper was still perpetuating the myth that former Manitoba Attorney-General Henry Clarke was somehow responsible for the fire that swept through the province&rsquo...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
The 1872 federal election, which ran from July 20 to October 12, was fraught with political intrigue, especially in the context of Métis leader Louis Riel seeking election in Provencher riding an...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
When lawyer Joseph Dubuc stepped outside the courthouse on Main Street near Upper Fort Garry, he didn’t expect to be a victim of violence arising from animosity that had contributed to a riot dur...
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by Bruce Cherney
According to many financial market commentators, the worst of the recession is now over in Canada, and the economy is now poised for recovery. Even in the United States, the heartland of the recession, the news appea...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Mounted on a Red River pony Colonel Garnet Wolseley, on August 24, 1870, led his advance force of green-coated British regulars from Point Douglas toward the village of Winnipeg. Although the marchers w...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, one of its most memorable songs contains the lyric, “I am the very model of a modern Major-General.”
When they wrote the oper...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
It was reported that William Whyte had gone to the Canadian Pacific Railway shops in Winnipeg to recruit the special constables, and that anyone who refused had been told they would be fired. About 250 ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Up to Their Old Tricks was the headline in the Manitoba Free Press, with the accompanying article describing how the Canadian Pacific Railway was attempting to block the laying of tracks for a new rail line ...
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by Bruce Cherney
To date, four Manitobans have died after contracting H1N1 influenza A virus. The latest victim was an adult over 18 years, according to a provincial government bulletin.
Another government bulletin...
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