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The Old Winnipeg City Hall

The very first Winnipeg City Hall was constructed through the concert aid of the Winnipeg General Hospital in 1876. It was built at a cost of almost $40,000.

The plan for second City Hall appeared in the daily papers on June 16, 1883.However; the whole construction process was surrounded by lots of controversies. Nevertheless, [...]

Personalities behind the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce (1991-1993)

Steve Childerhouse (1991)
“I was the bad cop, and Sandy (Hopkins — incoming president) was the good cop,” says Steve
Childerhouse, who admits as Chamber president he was often in “attack mode.”
The memory is painful, but relations with City Hall soured after he was accused of calling the mayor a liar during a rally on the steps [...]

"The" Winnipeg Blizzard – March 4 , 1966

THE MARCH 4 1966 BLIZZARD
The Day Winnipeg was Paralysed
by George Siamandas

I remember that storm–(Dave Sawatzky)
If you are over 40 and have lived in Winnipeg your whole life you likely remember the Blizzard of 1966. It occurred on Mar 4, a Friday and it shut down Winnipeg like it had never been shut down before. The [...]