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Newspaper
Rivers Banner
Location
Rivers, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 24, 2009
Page
7
The April 18 windup of the men’s curling league honored the Les Wedderburn rink as A-side champions and Jarrett Wood’s rink as B-side winners. Wedderburn’s team was pictured earlier in Carberry at the Dominion Club playoffs, with Harvey joining Wood’s squad for playoffs.
April 22 to 26 anniversaries highlight pivotal events. The Canadian 13th Battalion held firm at Ypres under brine gas and shelling until reserves arrived on April 23. Falconbridge Nickel shut its Sudbury operation in 1974 over air pollution, a first for industry. The 1928 Persons Case ruled women were not persons, later reversed by the Privy Council in 1929. Miners reached Victoria in 1858 en route to the Fraser River Gold Rush, reshaping native populations and BC politics. Baldur Stefansson, key rapeseed developer, was born in 1917 in Vestfold, Manitoba.
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