by Bruce Cherney
Sometimes the turn of an ill-advised phrase can have a detrimental impact on the historical record if it is picked up and repeated over and over again.
One such phrase was uttered a few decades ago and though ...
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by Bruce Cherney
An open space enclosed by a wall of brush was cleared in preparation for a day of feasting and celebration. In the centre of the enclosure, a huge fire burned and over the flames hung a kettle.
Inside the encl...
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by Bruce Cherney
A crowd gathered around Neepawa telegraph operator Paterson as he read the messages arriving minute-by-minute from Winnipeg. Finally, the expectant people were rewarded with good news from Paterson and then spilled o...
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by Bruce Cherney
Just after 6:08 a.m. on June 22, 1894, the bells of St. Boniface Cathedral began to ring — not to signal the celebration of the expected golden jubilee of the Grey Nuns, but as an expression of the profound sor...
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by Bruce Cherney
The shattering of the “big dream” was all too common during the early years of settlement in Manitoba. Many communities were founded with great expectations for their future, flourished for a time but suc...
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by Bruce Cherney
Seas said to be as high as mountains pounded the ship from stem to stern. The fury of the sea was compounded by a fierce wind driving the rain so hard that it seemed to bite at exposed flesh. With waves and rain lash...
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by Bruce Cherney
A day-long festival at The Forks last Saturday marked the 125th anniversary of professional fire and rescue service in Winnipeg. The special event celebrated the city’s first full-time paid fire department whic...
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by Bruce Cherney
When Rodmond Roblin arrived by train in Carman a week after the Conservative Party’s overwhelming July 20, 1903, election victory over the Liberals, the band struck up the tune See the Conquering Hero Comes.
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by Bruce Cherney
When Rodmond Roblin arrived by train in Carman a week after the Conservative Party’s overwhelming July 20, 1903, election victory over the Liberals, the band struck up the tune See the Conquering Hero Comes.
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by Bruce Cherney
“Shortly after 5 o’clock the central room of Hon. Hugh John Macdonald began to fill with an anxious and expectant crowd of citizens, eager to hear the first news that would lead to the success of the popu...
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