Bonspiel Week in Hamiota Serves Up Heavy Ice Action
Current Comments notes a busy Bonspiel week with 256 men in granite throwing and many women helping feed the participants. A mixed rink led by Bob Coombs of Flin Flon clips, with Mundell and Gray as other horses, and a jab at Delmar McConnell’s crew. The piece also includes a humorous long letter from a Newfie mother detailing family misadventures and a trailer court closing line about laughter as sun.
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Hamiota
Bob Coombs
Flin Flon
Charlie Mundell
Frank Gray
Delmar McConnell
Paul August
Baldy Mathison
Keith Ritchie
Heritage Day call and RCMP shifts in Hamiota page tease
Recounts of political opinions and a mosaic of quotes mix with RCMP staffing shifts and transfers in the Hamiota detachment. The 1973 to 1974 roster lists Corporal Wayne Lymburner Dick Fogarty Graham Archibald and others with transfers to Flin Flon Rossburn Brandon Dauphin and Thompson.
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RCMP
Hamiota
Wayne Lymburner
Dick Fogarty
Graham Archibald
Flin Flon
Bruce Kineshanko
Ashern
Rossburn
Bruce
Brandon
Marty Kerelchuk
Dauphin
John Davidson
John
Maritimes
Joanne
Thompson
Ottawa Historic Office Wing Seen As Wasteful Heritage Debate
Peter Ward argues the wartime three story federal justice annex in Ottawa should not be preserved as a heritage building. He recalls it as a temporary, overcrowded office block from the 1940s and questions spending public funds to save a relic on prime real estate.
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Ottawa
Federal Civil Service
Trudeau
Hull
Federal Justice
Justice Department
Local Architecture Advisory
Justice
Io Pong
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Jack Coombs
Mary
Amos
Dominion Brewery
Kate
Grand Falls
P.S
Trailer Court
loTiw
Reggie
Joe Clark
King
St. Laurent
Diefenbaker
Pearson
Canada
Toronto
Stanley Knowles
Winnipeg North End
Allan Cumming
Mary Bull
Bessie Houck
Kae
L.L. Brown
Wimp
Bruce Lemon
Peter Ward
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