Church column previews rapid changes in rural Manitoba
A parish column notes ongoing church happenings in and beyond the Min iota district. It urges outreach to non churchgoers, highlights the need for change to serve all, and mentions two official board meetings about reform. It ends with a Good Friday service at Isabella at 11 a.m. for everyone on the charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miniota
Manitoba
Actu‘y
The
United Church
Isabella
Prairie Trails and the Railways That Shaped Western Canada
The arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882 transformed settlement patterns across the prairies. Railways linked isolated homesteads, spurred townsites, and shifted ambitions as financiers and governments battled debt while promoters built networks like the Manitoba and Northwestern and Canadian Northern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Canada
Red River
Prairies
Winnipeg
Company of Sifton, Glass and Fleming
Fort Pelly
Northern
Saskatchewan River
Canadian Pacific Railway
C.P.R
Saskatchewan
Portage la Prairie
Portage, Westbourne and Northwestern
GTP
Edmonton
Canadian National Railway
Lake Manitoba
United States
Western Canada
Reggies Ramblings on Plane Trip and Assembly Singalong
Hon Stewart McLean notes Manitoba Hydro guests insured at 25 dollars per person on MLA flight to Kettle Generating Station Nelson River trip. Governor-General Roland Michener address prompts MPs to sing God Save the Queen. Ob servers recall vocal harmony of present Assembly. A sit-in by about fifty hippies blocks Hudson Bay store basement in Victoria. Winnipeg worries over greasy longhairs gathering in Memorial Park disturbing the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart McLean
Kettle
Nelson River
Manitoba Hydro
Roland Michener
Manitoba
Legislative Assembly
God Save the Queen
Hudson’s Bay
Victoria
Winnipeg
Memorial Park
Many Things and the Great Industrialists Past
The piece laments modern labor leaders as puny compared to pioneers like Sam Gompers and Carnegie. It argues freedom of enterprise erodes as options shrink to socialism, dictatorship, or a new system, warning there is little time to craft a better societal order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labour
Sam Gompers
Carnegie
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S Up
By Jack Nield
Hamiota Echo
Regu-Natel
Smith St. Ph
J. W. Millham
Reggie
Virden
Ivelaces
Phonograph Records
Bissell Electric
Bissell
Rent& Save
AUB Cleaning Center
Chapman's
Allied” Hardware
Hamiota
Denwal Pharmacy
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