Notable Manitoba settler Alexander MacKenzie’s sweeping ventures
The passage narrates the life of Alexander MacKenzie, a dominant Manitoba figure who built wealth through land, cattle, and trade. Starting with 800 acres of cod hay land near Arden, he expanded across the prairie, buying and selling farms, supplying settlers, and moving ventures from Canada to Cuba before dying and requesting burial at Burnside. It highlights frontier hardships, road work taxes, and the boom of settlement along the North Trail in Manitoba.
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Manitoba
Hudson's Bay Company
MacGregor
Gladstone
Nan
St. Paul
Arden
Edmonton
Carberry Plains
Victoria
Cuba
Burnside
Alexander MacKenzie
Russian Festival To Play Winnipeg Concert Hall
The 1969 edition of the Russian Festival of Music and Dance brings 110 artists from the USSR to Centennial Concert Hall Winnipeg for four nights April 30 to May 3 at 8 30 p.m. nightly. The Piatnitsky Ensemble anchors the program with 20 encores, joined by Leningrad Kirov Opera and Ballet stars and the Obratsov Puppet troupe. Host Boris Brunov will perform in French and English city by city.
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U.ss.r
Winnipeg
Centennial Concert Hall
North America
U.S
Sol Hurok
Montreal
Calgary
Edmonton
Saskatoon
Vancouver
Victoria
Fort William
London
Toronto
Ottawa
Sherbrooke
Quebec City
Piatnitsky
Us.s.r
Paris
Canada
Winnipeg police plan to curb use of improvised shanks
Police Chief George Blow told the police commission about a plastic toothbrush molded into a weapon by filing the handle on a cement floor. The commission debated reducing toothbrush handles to about an inch of bristles, with Mayor Stephen Juba voting in the majority as in favor.
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Winnipeg Police Department
George Blow
Police Commission
Commission
Commiss
Stephen Juba
Journal Cuts Publications Mail Costs Up
The Canadian Medical Association Journal will halve its issues due to higher postal rates. From July 1, it will publish biweekly, with a circulation of 23,000. Mail cost per copy rises to 13 cents from 1% as the journal shifts to third class. The 18 year old weekly since 1960.
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Canadian Medical Association Journal
Arthur Kelly
Kelly
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North Saskatchewan Trail
Batoche
Hitsory
Louis Reil
Sul
Ontario
Macgregor Herai
MacGregor Herald
MacGregor Memorial Hall
Rev. R. Boyum
Prairicable Institute
Three Hills
Alberta
Chamber OF Commerce
Garry Leckie
MacGregor Bakery
Abe and
John Boschman
Four Way Motor Products Ltd
Earl and
Ron Erickson
Oliver Schneider
East End
Elephant Brand
Erler
George Ole Area
Journal
Macgregor A.C.W
MANSE
Penman's Music & VarIety Store
Royal Road North
Safeway
Portage LA Prairie, Man
Sparton Swimmming Pools
McLaren
Rupert
General Motors
MacGregor, Manitoba
Oldsmobile
Four-Way Motor Products Ltd
Pontiac Beaumont
Acadian Firebird
BUICK
Motor Products Ltd
General Motors OF Canada Limited
Oshawa, Ontario
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