by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
A reporter’s trip to and from Manitoba’s newest resort was leisurely in the extreme, as it took 54 hours to go just 160 kilometres. Two years later, a one-way trip to the new resort, 8...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In the confusion at Happyland amusement park, the chief trainer of the Sells-Floto Circus received a blow to the right temple from someone blindly wielding a weapon to corral the elephants which had bro...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
The evening of August 10, 1907, would not be a happy time in Happyland. At Happyland, Ringling Brothers’ “Greatest Show on Earth,” was wrapping up its closing performance of a two-day ...
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by Bruce Cherney
The same steamer returning Father Noel-Joseph Ritchot to Winnipeg as a conquering hero, left the city with William McTavish as an unheralded passenger.
When the International arrived in Winnipeg, its whistle s...
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by Bruce Cherney
“Going, Gone.” so began an article in the Winnipeg Daily Sun, November 3, 1881. The article related the tale of “an hour in an auction room” at the height of the most spectacular land boom in ...
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by Bruce Cherney
It had all the hallmarks of an old-time Western movie — a drunken brawl in a brothel, gun play on the street, a murder leading to a flight from the authorities, a posse in hot pursuit, a reward offered for the ...
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by Bruce Cherney
In his Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857, Henry Youle Hind related the finding of “great bones” along Shell Creek in Manitoba.
Hind said the bones “ha...
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by Bruce Cherney
At one time, Broadway didn’t abruptly end at Main Street but continued on to the Red River. Where Broadway met the Red a bridge was built connecting the picturesque avenue with Provencher Boulevard on the St. B...
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by Bruce Cherney
The paddle cut into the water and with a strong stroke, the man propelled the birch-bark canoe toward the riverbank. Along the shore of the Red River, people gathered eagerly waiting to see what treasures the travell...
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by Bruce Cherney
For decades, residents of the Red River Settlement lived upon the bald prairie in virtual isolation, deprived of regular contact with the outside world. During the initial years of the community established by Lord S...
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