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Unusual Father’s Day Gift From Winnipeg Friends
A Winnipeg reader recounts receiving an auctioned Winnipeg police buffalo coat as a Father’s Day gift. Three friends Dick Wankling Cliff Gardner and June Gardner organized the purchase and delivery amid travel for Trappers’ Festival and Greece trips. The coat, large and heavy, recalls a former patrolman’s gear and prompts reflections on local hospital publicity and bureaucratic mixups around the McBryde and McBride names.
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Dick Wankling
Winnipeg
Fort Garry
Cliff
June Gardner
Pas
McBride
Winnipeg Police
Ardher’s
Gardner’s
Greece
Kelsey Bus Lines