George Babington Elliott wrote in his promotional pamphlet, Winnipeg as It is in 1874: And as It was in 1860, that mid-city properties had reached their highest limit in value.
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Alexander McMicken established a private bank in Winnipeg, which George Babington Elliott, a transplanted journalist from Eastern Canada, said was “a two-storey wooden building” on Fort Street.
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Elliott described in detail the buildings comprising 1874 Winnipeg. The dismal conditions of Winnipeg's streets partially contributed to the movement toward incorporation as a city.
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With the bold official declaration of the town-sized community as a city, the citizenry began to envision prosperity and sought to promote Winnipeg to the outside world.
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David Jones, a missionary with the Christian Missionary Society and an eyewitness to the 1826 flood, wrote in his journal on May 1, 1826, that the settlers were wishing for warm weather, but when it arrived it made them apprehensive.
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This year's heavy snowfall again brings to mind the flooding that can happen in Manitoba.
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Manitoba's first Lieutenant-governor, Adams Archibald, had concerns about mail service.
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For decades, residents of the Red River Settlement lived upon the bald prairie in virtual isolation, deprived of regular contact with the outside world.
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An RCAF board of inquiry investigated the 1963 crash that killed Morin, who had only been a Red Knight pilot since May that year, and decided to continue the Red Knight program after making some safety recommendations.
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It may seem a little strange today, but the butchers' stalls in the Old Market Square building were regarded as one of the city's main attractions during the city's early Christmas celebrations.
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