Metric change faces resistance in small shops
In interviews with Metric Commission executive director David Beckman, a farmer from the Warren area complains of metric adoption obstacles. He highlights stubbornly Imperial preferences among customers, including a carpet seller who advertises in square feet and a Transcona retailer who abandoned metric trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metric Commission
David Beckman
Warren
Deere
Germany
United States
Winnipeg
Phillip Rosen
R. and
R. Carpet Loft Ltd
Market Ave
East
Beckman
Payfail
Trans‘cona
Manitoba
Passing of Joumiy Stewart Reminds of Canada Leaders
The obituary notes Joumiy Stewart at 67 and recalls a boyhood jab about Joe Clark and Canada’s prime ministers. It mentions PE Trudeau on TV and Premier Howard Pawley optimistic talk of Manitoba’s future while an old-timer relates travel anecdotes and a search for two “magnificent captures.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joumiy
Black Jack
Trudeau Warns Against Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament
In an open letter to Canadians, Pierre Trudeau argues against unilateral Western disarmament and endorses NATO’s two track approach. He defends the strategy of suffocation to slow new weapons while pushing for negotiated removal of Soviet missiles, urging solidarity with Western democracies and cautioning against moral simplifications amid Cold War pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Ussr
West
Canada
Canadian
Soviet Union
Andropov
Free World
United Nations
NATO
Atlantic Alliance
United States
Bandon
Teulon Refuses Education Funding and Sex Education Debate
A Manitoba village council in Teulon defies Interlake School Division demands over education funding and curriculum. The debate touches teacher salaries, by law muzzling of officials, and sex education in schools with regional reactions from Stonewall to Claresholm and Moowomin, highlighting a broad controversy over policy and community standards.
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Sne
Manitoba
Vilage of
Teulon
Interlake
Stonewall Argus
Altona Echo
Moowomin
Three Hills Capital
Triville
Examiner
Claresholm
Tean
Cement sidewalks replace plank paths in town history
A survey of old notes shows plans to substitute cement for plank sidewalks. The community records cover church events, a pastor’s departure, agricultural society updates, horse stable bids, cattle purchases, storm disruptions for telephone operators, wool comforter drawing, a granary fire, graduates, institute elections, new medical offices, and school staff appointments across multiple Manitoba towns from 1908 through 1978, highlighting local governance, education, and civic life.
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Methodist Church
JT. Lyons
Horace E. Hewitt
Hewitt
Claiverack
New York
W.L. Burton
Prairie Nursery Ltd
Estevan
Russell
Rossburn Hockey Club
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Rojiwo “Rommpures
Clayton G. Chaloner
Russell Banner
Russell B
M ‘Sube
CNA Se
Peter Warren
Costa Rica
Howard Pawley
Pierre Trudeau
Fred McGuinness
The
Agricultural Doct
A.W. Jouige
Messrs
Wr. Honey
H.V. Bailey
1.C.C.F. Hall
Rossburn
Harold Beimes
Rossbur
Anthony Pawhuke
Angusville
June Hughes
S.F. Hughes
Emerson
Winnpeg General Hospital
Roblin-Russell ‘Women’s Insitute
Foxwarren
W.C. Honey
Binscarth
J. Yeo
Roblin
R. McCann
Endcliffe
C. Rogers
Makaroff
JH. More
Smellie Bros
Dr. More
Deloraine
Ruth Kli‘mack
Rita Ziprick
Joan Fin‘gas
Muriel Shepherd
Marjorie ‘Way
Reta Dunn
Edith Pettitt
Margaret Chandler
Arnold Geith
Jim Adolphe
Lawrence Kreebaum
Jack Cochrane
Muriel Zemlink
Gwen Nelson
Elizabeth Marshall
Jack Pettitt
Shiela Ro
Pratt Collegiate
Sargent Part
Jim Spears
Mildred Blishak
Hope Gooda
Roger Shatkowsky
R.G
Bob) Murdock
D.R. Baker
Shilo
W.J. Wells
Marchand
Poara
Glen Jackson
Inglis
Eldon
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