by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
A reporter from the Morning Telegram approached a “gentleman ... well up on the doings of criminals,” asking him about Walter Gordon’s chances of eluding the police.
“If Gordon...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
For two years, he was the subject of an intensive police search encompassing Canada and the United States, but before that he was merely one of thousands of Ontarians coming to Manitoba to seek their fame an...
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by Bruce Cherney
Charles Napier Bell was an avid skater who is said to have introduced the sport to Winnipeg.
The Manitoba Free Press on November 13, 1875, noted that Bell “inaugurated the skating season by making ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
On March 5, 1877, Louis Riel executed a document giving his mother, who lived in Manitoba, the right “to sell and convey all my lands of every description in the Province of Manitoba Except my M&e...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
The fame of Louis Riel was recently confirmed when the Manitoba Métis Federation successfully purchased four poems penned by the “Father of Manitoba.”
While Riel remains one of...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
A driving snowstorm made the football and playing field slippery and contributed to a game in which no passing yards were recorded and a fumble led to the only touchdown scored. But the one touchdown wa...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
On November 10, the high ground at Passchendaele was captured, and British Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig finally felt he could call the operation a success and end the Third Battle of Ypres.
&l...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Director, screenwriter and actor Paul Gross has brought the bloody Battle of Passchendaele to the silver screen. The Passchendaele screenplay written by Gross is based on an extraordinary period in Cana...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In an article outlining the history of the many St. Boniface Cathedrals obtained from oral tradition and the written testimonies of old inhabitants — unfortunately, the diocese’s early archi...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Forty years ago, thousands of people watched in horror as flames consumed a beloved St. Boniface landmark.
“For me it’s my whole life,” a 70-year-old Sister of the Order of the ...
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