by Bruce Cherney
An early Manitoba historian and journalist described the long-anticipated Immigration Sheds as comprising “two separate ranges, capable of accommodating four or five hundred persons, and provided with many conv...
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by Bruce Cherney
The people gathered at the public meeting heard that the recent immigrants to Winnipeg had lived in terror in Russia and had not yet become accustomed to the “blessings of British freedom.”
Accordi...
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by Bruce Cherney
In 1928, the Gordon Hudson rink had an opportunity to claim Manitoba’s first Macdonald Brier Tankard by winning its last game in the round-robin schedule. At that stage in the Canadian curling championship, Hud...
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by Bruce Cherney
A “dastardly outrage," as it was called at the time, was committed in the early morning hours of March 7, 1873.
Dr. Curtis James Bird, the victim, explained in the Manitoba Legislature the day after the ...
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by Bruce Cherney
Manitobans eagerly awaited the arrival of the first ever group of curlers from Scotland. Their landing at Halifax, disembarkation from the steamer Bavaria and progression across Canada en route to Winnipeg was enthus...
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by Bruce Cherney
The Red Saloon was a popular local drinking establishment frequented by militiamen who had arrived on August 24 in Winnipeg with Col. Garnet Wolseley, members of the so-called “loyal” Canadian Party, as w...
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by Bruce Cherney
Joseph Lemay rose from his seat in the Manitoba Legislature and to “roars of laughter and cries of order” pronounced that it would be appropriate for the legislature to be adjourned for a month“as a...
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by Bruce Cherney
General Sir Arthur Currie was far from impressed when British Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig suddenly turned up at Canadian Expeditionary Force headquarters on October 3, 1917. An order personally delivered by...
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by Bruce Cherney
Every evening at 5 o’clock with the chill of autumn in the air, the Winnipeg Shamrocks would head to the practice field to prepare for the first cross-border football match between a Manitoba team and the Unive...
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by Bruce Cherney
The militiamen of the Canadian Mounted Rifles at Lower Fort Garry were spooked. Several days earlier, an apparition had made its first appearance. Subsequently, any soldier on sentry duty was filled with dread that t...
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