by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
Well after the polio epidemic had peaked in most of Manitoba, Bowsman closed its school toward the end of October, “owing to the high incidence of polio in the district.”
Wading...
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by Bruce Cherney (part1)
Peter Thompson* had been married for just two years when he became “so sick and so bewildered,” by what he felt at the time was a “mysterious” ailment.
After visiting with his w...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
Ninety years ago, Canada’s most famous outbreak of labour unrest created such widespread panic that it was feared to be the first stage of a Bolshevik-style revolution that would sweep across...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
Following the tax riot by a mob of 500 primarily Ukrainian farmers at the Bifrost municipal office in Arborg, the Canadian Farmer, a Ukrainian-language weekly newspaper based in Winnipeg, called on its ...
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by Bruce Cherney (Part 1)
Premier John Bracken should have realized the delegation in his Manitoba legislature office was merely the harbinger of things to come. If he had, Bracken would have listened with greater sympathy to their d...
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by Bruce Cherney
“As we write, the waters of the Red River have almost rolled in at doors,” so began the first newspaper account of a flood in Manitoba. James Ross and William Coldwell, who wrote the account, we...
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by Bruce Cherney
A so-called town in Manitoba in the 1880s earned a reputation similar in nature to the scam associated with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. As “selling the Brooklyn Bridge” is now known as an American me...
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