by Bruce Cherney
In today’s world, the word “newsboy” is an anachronism, replaced first by “paperboy” and more recently by the gender neutral term “paper carrier.” Today, paper carriers actua...
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by Bruce Cherney
Gold! That shiny yellow and elusive precious metal has caused good men and women to lose all sense of reason in its pursuit. That’s what happened when gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in California in 1849...
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by Bruce Cherney
So, we’ll be having a federal election during the depths of winter on January 23 to the chagrin of political pundits. But, there’s really nothing new about politicians hitting the hustling when the weathe...
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by Bruce Cherney
It’s hard to say why Fred Bender saved an issue of a newspaper from Cardiff, Wales, dating from the Second World War. His reason will remain a mystery since he is among the many veterans of the conflict who hav...
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by Bruce Cherney
While Canadians may be celebrating the Year of the Veteran, most are probably unaware that the seeds of world conflict that ended 60 years ago were planted on September 30, 1938, with the signing of a piece of paper ...
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by Bruce Cherney
Great-grandson and Winnipeg city councillor Donald Benham said Edward Lancaster (E.L.) Drewry’s first visit to Winnipeg was in 1875, when he travelled to the then two-year-old city via canoe, paddling down the ...
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by Bruce Cherney
Prime Minister Paul Martin recently announced that an agreement-in-principle had been signed with Canada’s Ukrainian community to articulate “a shared vision for the acknowledgement, commemoration and edu...
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by Bruce Cherney
In 1799, 416 of the 530 men working for the Hudson’s Bay Company came from the Orkneys, a collection of wind-swept islands forming a county of Scotland. The numbers employed by the HBC presents an extreme...
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by Bruce Cherney
An 1880 photograph found in Alan Artibise’s Winnipeg: An Illustrated History depicts the Northwestern and Transportation Co.’s stagecoach office at the corner of Rorie and Post Office (Lombard) streets. A...
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by Bruce Cherney
One event accelerated the prominence of the Red River cart in Canada’s West. Prior to the trial of Guillaume Sayer, the Red River cart had only been used in great numbers during the annual Metis buffalo hunts, ...
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