by Bruce Cherney
Dr. John Rae differed significantly in one aspect from his contemporary Arctic explorers in that he was willing to learn from the Inuit how to survive in the harsh climate of the Far North. In addition, while on his ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
According to Percy Davis, John Wesley Anderson said he had heard Galt died three weeks earlier and the secret of the $62,000 Molsons Bank robbery died with him. It was alleged by Davis that Anderson sai...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Just one of the six “Galicians” from Immigration Hall understood some English and he believed the only explanation for why the two men had hired them to dig in a field two ki...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In the 1891 Canadian Census, Alfred Perry Stewart declared he “employed” two people — Tommy and Hilda Blake, who were listed as “Dom.” (Domestics) with their professi...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
It had all the elements of sensationalism that extraordinary crime stories dripping with venomous jealousy, sleazy sex and murder receive on cable news networks today. In the absence of 24-hour electron...
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by Bruce Cherney
As the eight people boated down the Red River during the late afternoon of Saturday, August 11, 1906, Ernest Brown belted out the lyrics of My Blue Bell. The young lad was heard to sing, “good-bye, my blue bell...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Apparently, the first flight in Western Canada was only witnessed by a handful of people, since most left as the day grew late and few expected Eugene Ely to rise into the air in his flying machine. Tho...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
On February 23, 1909, aviator and airplane designer John Alexander Douglas McCurdy made the first controlled heavier-than-air flight in Canada and the British Empire when he took the Silver-Dart aloft n...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
When the Daily Nor’Wester reporter visited the docks, he saw 14 steamers and tugs, as well as smaller craft which brought to Selkirk, “so much wood, timber, fish, minerals, and farm products...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
Long before the all-encompassing term “perimeteritis” was first heard, Selkirk residents had every right to believe their community had been shafted by politicians giving undue weight to Win...
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