Loneliness and mail order brides in early Manitoba press
A Winnipeg radio researcher details letters from rural Manitoba about loneliness in the 1980s and the appeal of mail order brides. He reads excerpts from rural readers, notes dating to 1902 and floods, and catalogs community updates from May across 1900 to 1972.
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Philippines
Malaysia
Canada
Manitoba
Ethelbert
G.P
St. Claude
Winnipeg
D.M
Portage la Prairie
D.D. Winnipeg
Western Canada Concept rally notes and prairie party politics
The report tracks Western Canada Concept activity across Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and beyond with rallies drawing hundreds and editors weighing separatism Ottawa-bashing and western representation. It contrasts WCC optimism with editorial skepticism while noting leadership credibility and possible alternatives from Wilfrid Jopp.
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Ottawa
Western Canada
Alberta
Trudeau
Saskatchewan
Unity
Trochu
Vulcan
Peace River
Cochrane
Melville
WOC
Manitoba
WCC
Eckville Examiner
Vulcan Advocate
Cochrane Times
St. Albert
Richard Doherty
U.S
Partridge
Motherwell
Aberhart
Manning
Social Credit
Coldwell
Woodsworth
Douglas
Ccf-Ndp
Wilfrid Jopp
Olds
Reggies Ramblings on Punishment and Painful Pedagogy
A Winnipeg school dispute over corporal punishment prompts debate on gender fairness. An elderly observer recalls a boarding school moment with a wall cane and a stern headmaster. The piece also cites a National Council on Welfare poverty figure for a four person family and questions historical income levels.
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Winnipeg
National Council On Welfare
Ottawa
Limitless Degrees by Bill Smiley shows daughter's education path
The narrator celebrates his daughter earning multiple degrees while pursuing a Master’s and possibly a PhD. She works on two children and begins a graduate course in Psycho-Pedagogy, a field he suspects studies how psyches become educators. He admires her ambition yet admits being pulled into her various academic projects.
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Bill Smiley
Doctor Smiley
Thad
Reluctant researcher dredges memories for Wa lters project
A narrator recounts driving 300 miles to interview retired and near retirement educators from Florida to New Orleans, plus Germany, to fill a ten page questionnaire. He faces postage, envelope costs, long distance calls, and travel expenses, finding old colleagues content in quiet lives yet amused at his effort.
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Walters
Athens
Florida
Bahamas
California
New Orleans
Germany
Alps
Kim
Dad
Sarasota
Fla
England
Shepherd and John Deere Itinerant Service Remembered
A nostalgic piece recalls Shepherd and John Deere in Angusville led by Cliff Shepherd promising good service. It notes as tractors arrived, early implements like binders and mowers preceded them and praises Elmer Shepherd for dependable repairs and long service history across farms in the countryside.
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John Deere
Angusville
Cliff Shepherd
Hris
A.R
Elmer Shepherd
Shepherd
Sentimental Oscars Spark Talent Across Generations
The ceremony highlights a mix of younger and veteran stars as a seven year old actor and a seventy three year old actress win Golden Oscars. Hank Fonda and Kathrine Hepburn are noted as highly deserving for their respective accolades.
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Hank Fonda
Katherine Hepburn
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W.J
T.N. Huddlestone
CPR
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Harrowby
Millwood
C.P.R
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Hamiota
E.R. ‘Long
Mrr
Clive Rea
J. Albright
Endcliffe
Bob "Thom
George and
Logie Smellie
Jimmy Langford
Elmer
Brooks Lamb
Gerald Boulton
Vern Warrian
Russell School Board
John Forsyth
Gerald Lussier
University of Manitoba
Russell Town
Freddie Dunn
Brent Stewart
Ross Dunn
CPA
Station House
John Galatiuk
Clement's
Galatuik
Highway
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Ray ‘Toews
Reggies
Arayle Communications Inc
Jas. L. Flett
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