by Bruce Cherney
During Manitoba’s early years, observing Thanksgiving Day was a hit or miss affair. It depended entirely upon public enthusiasm and the resulting desire to ask the residing lieutenant-governor to proclaim a day...
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by Bruce Cherney
Miss Racine pulled enthusiastically upon the ropes and St. Boniface Cathedral’s bells rang out, joining the shrill of mill whistles and cheers of people lining the riverbanks as the steamer Selkirk chugged down...
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by Bruce Cherney
Miss Racine pulled enthusiastically upon the ropes and St. Boniface Cathedral’s bells rang out, joining the of shrill of mill whistles and cheers of people lining the riverbanks as the steamer Selkirk chugged d...
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by Bruce Cherney
Among the 19 millionaires in 1910 living in Winnipeg — more per capita than any other Canadian city — was James Ashdown.
Just after his death in 1924, the Winnipeg Free Press called him “Winn...
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by Bruce Cherney
Ninety-nine years ago the claim was that not enough members of the St. Peter’s reserve were on hand to make a legitimate vote possible to allow a land surrender. Today, the claim is that not enough member...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
In September 1871, rumours were spreading in Winnnipeg and St. Paul, Minnesota, that the Fenians were preparing to launch a raid into Manitoba. The rumours of an attack by the “murderous ban...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
If the word “terrorist” had been in common usage in 1871, it would have been applied to the Fenians who attempted to invade Manitoba in that year.
But at that time, “terrorism&r...
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by Bruce Cherney
In 1933, Canada and the world were in the midst of the Great Depression. Four years earlier, on Black Tuesday, October 29, the New York stock market had collapsed, which sent a collective shudder reverberating throug...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Last week, the July 17 recovery of the engine, propeller and other smaller artifacts from Fokker Standard Universal G-CJAD was told. The “Ghost of Charron Lake” has rested on the bottom of t...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1 of 2)
It is called the “Ghost of Charron Lake” and until recently had been lost to a watery grave at the bottom of a northern Manitoba lake.
The first photos taken of the Fokker Standard Un...
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