Browsing all posts in December, 2011.

Shanty Town (cont)

By the end of 1885, the odd shanty still remained in the area of the HBC Flats, but their extinction was imminent. Starting in 1886, the rail yards of the Northern Pacific and Manitoba Railroad, the Canadian Northern, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad and the Canadian National Railway took over the Flats and largely eliminated [...]

Shanty Town

In December 1884, Winnipeg Fire Chief William O. McRobie reported to city council that he abstained from enforcing the city bylaw compelling occupants of shanties to build brick chimneys. He said “if it is a hardship to evict them, it was equally a hardship to compel them to build chimneys, which in most cases would [...]

The Gefreiter Story

Erwin and I moved to the Rosser district at the beginning of September, 1964. We had been living with my parents at McCreary, Manitoba, but it was now time to be on our own again.
I had come out of the hospital at McCreary a few days earlier after giving birth of our youngest son, Dale, [...]