Browsing all posts in June, 2010.
A celebration of Winnipeg's storied North End
The mosaic village
A celebration of Winnipeg’s storied North End
HARAPIAK PHOTO COURTESY OF PETER TITTENBERGER Enlarge Image
Selkirk Avenue, the heart and soul of the North End, near its intersection with McGregor Street, 1960s.
WINNIPEG writer Russ Gourluck, whose specialty is local social history, launches his latest book tomorrow.
It’s called The Mosaic Village, and it documents Winnipeg’s colourful [...]
Explore Manitoba: Gimli 1st Avenue
This is the 1st Gimli Avenue Looking South which was taken in September 1968.
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York Boat
It was named for the Hudson’s Bay Co’s York Factory; one of 3 types of inland boats the (the others being scows and sturgeon-heads) used by the HBC, and the most suitable for the lake travel. Boatbuilders recruited from the Orkney is built the first boat about 1749, for use on the Albany R. In [...]
Explore Manitoba: Gimli Street
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Explore Manitoba: Gimli
Look at the old version of the Gimli Street of Manitoba in the year 1968.
Famous People of Manitoba
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Winkler
Winkler is located in the Pembina Valley region 115 km SW of Winnipeg and 22 km N of the international boundary. Winkler began in 1892 with the establishment of a CPR siding on land owned by Valentine Winkler, a businessman and politician. Nearby were agricultural villages in the NW part of the West Reserve, one [...]
