Browsing all posts in May, 2010.

Explore Manitoba: Gimli Park

This is the 1967 face of Gimli Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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The strike right after WWII, Windsor Strike

September 12, 1929 marked the day where more or less 17,000 workers walkout from Windsor, Ontario, plant of Ford Motor Co. It was the first and most significant of the many strikes occurring immediately after WWII as Canada’s unions attempted to capitalize on their great wartime advances. The main issue that triggered Windsor strike— uniform [...]

Windsor

Located in central NS, at the mouth of the Avon and St. Croix rivers. Its short distance from Halifax (66km) has long made Windsor a town of commuters. It was first settled by Acadians in 1684 and was called Pisiquid, a name of Micmac origin. The English township of Windsor (after Windsor, Eng) was established [...]

Explore Manitoba: Arborg

This is one of the earlier faces of Arborg, Manitoba back in September 1971. The name of the town was driven from the an Icelandic word that means “town by a river.” This is located in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost in Manitoba’s Interlake Region, 103 kilometres north of Winnipeg. The world’s largest curling rock [...]

Canada’s Wine Industry

The cultivation of grapes to produce wine occurs in only 2 areas of Canada; Southwestern Ontario and the Okanagan Valley of BC. In Canada, historically, the basis of wine has been grapes from N. American Vitis labrusca vines; in Europe V. vinifera wines are used. However, there has been a dramatic change in the past [...]

Explore Manitoba: Winnipeg

The name “Winnipeg” originated from the Cree words meaning muddy water, referring to the dark water of the rivers and lakes in the region. It is the largest city in Manitoba and serves as the capital too.
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Fort Garry in Ruins

“Fort Garry in Ruins,” announced a headline in the Manitoban, dated May 27, 1871. “Not exactly the entire Fort, reader, but a considerable portion of the stone wall fronting on the Red River. It has been threatening a tumble down for a long time, and lest it might fall into the Fort, some men were [...]

Explore Manitoba: View of the Auditorium, Cenotaph, Parliament Building and University Building

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Portage, a way by land around an interruption in a water source

Until the early 19th century most inhabitants of what is now Canada traveled mainly by water. Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser demonstrated that it is possible, by portaging 100 times, to canoe from the St. Lawrence to the Arctic or Pacific oceans.
The first trails around waterfalls and rapids were often made by moose. Then Indians [...]

The 1921 Willys Knight

The origin of this car has begun just when J.N. Willys met up with Charles Y. Knight whilst on a trip to England. Knight has convinced Willys that the sleeve valve engine had some very desirable features over the poppet valve motor. As soon as he reached England, J.N. Willys hired a [...]