To maintain this industry during its 7 years of operation at Little Stony Mountain were many employees, 164 recorded in November of 1904. Together with their families most of them lived in and around the site of the quarries. According to the memory of J.L. Mac William, there was located in this village 2 blacksmith shops, a post office, a store operated by Mr. L.P. Brault, a dance hall believed to be among the first halls built north of Winnipeg. Miss Ford’s boarding house, a number of dwellings, a pool hall and bootlegger! The number of school age children proved to be too many for nearby Little Mountain School to handle, so the overflow, at the suggestion of Mr. W. MacWilliam, was taught in the dance hall in the quarry village. Classes were held on the stage of the hall. James MacWilliam attended here, coming from his family farm about one mile north. He recalled that there were about 25 children enrolled.

A spur line railroad track to haul the store was constructed, running from near the present Moore siding, northeast adjacent to the road allowance past Little Mountain School on ¾ of a mile to the quarry. In the spring, the stony bed of this track, long since lifted can be clearly seen across the summer fallow fields.

Now, on the hill between the 2 remaining excavations, no sign remains of this unincorporated village which had its own mayor where a busy industry had been and where many rollicking good times were spent in old dance hall, by the residents of the village and the district.

The excavation north of the road allowance is owned party by the RM Rosser. The excavation south of the road allowance, known as the Egan Pit, recently became the property of the Metro Winnipeg. During the depression of the 1930’s the Municipal. The work was divided among the residents of the area, to give employment.

-Reprinted from Rosser Ripples

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On July 30 to Aug 2 marks the day of the Mynarski Memorial Avro Lancaster Mk 10 Bomber headed by the Western Canadian Aviation Museum. This has been their second year of visit to the museum, following their previous visit in 1989 and 1990.

For the executive director of the museum, Shirley Render, the aircraft signifies a living history that has touched many lives. She received a letter regarding the plane last year that almost brought her to tears.

The Lancaster was active during the Second World War during the raids on the Ruhr dams in May 1943 and the sinking of German battleship Tirpitz in November 1944.

Over 7000 people saw the Lancaster and its crew last year. Render in anticipating a bigger number this year.

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These are the teams he played for:

New Haven Eagles (Right Wing) 1941- 1942
New York Rangers (Right Wing) 1943-1944
Vancouver Pros                1945
Los Angeles Rambles      1946-1947
Toledo Mercurys              1947-1948
Toledo Mercurys North 1948-1949
Toledo Mercurys South  1948-1949
Toledo Buckeyes                1949-1950

This canadian hockey player had garnered 43 points in 49 games under the Toledo Buckeyes of the NHL. Due to his commemorable achievements he was inducted in the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001. He retired from his sport around the year 1950.

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Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz and Shoal Lake No.40 Chief Kelvin Redsky signed

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a letter of intent to explore economic opportunities under the new proposed management model for Winnipeg’s water and waste utility.

Winnipeg Mayor  and Shoal Lake No.40 Chief Kelvin Redsky signed a letter of intent to explore economic opportunities under the new proposed management model for Winnipeg’s water and waste utility.

This is a far cry from what occurred when the Shoal Lake aqueduct was originally proposed and built. At the time, no consultation was conducted with nearby aboriginal people. In fact, any concern they may have expressed were completely ignored the construction proceeded without an assessment of the impact of neither the aqueduct on their lives nor how they could benefit from its construction.

The letter of intent would allow the construction of the reserve’s own water treatment plant, training for band members to become certified to maintain and operate the facility, and the development of a business model that provides First Nations communities with the opportunity to construct and operate their own sewage and water treatment facilities.

The people of Shoal Lake Band No. 40 First Nation in partnership with the city of Winnipeg, will have the opportunity to create and make a  worthy change for their  children’s future. Their goal is to create a long term and meaningful employment as well as establish sound investment opportunities.

Previous agreements with Shoal Lake No.40 included a memorandum of agreement declared in 1989, which curtailed cottage development in the region in exchange for the sustainable development expertise and a $6 million trust fund an a memorandum of understanding in 2008 in which city council agreed to explore economic opportunities beneficial to both parties. The protection of the water is their top priority, and by working together with their partners at Shoal Lake No.40 we will continue to encourage clean economic development.

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It was only when municipally-owned electricity was flowing through the city’s power lines that the water question re-emerged, with. Deacon leading the debate by again emphasizing Shoal Lake as the best option.

The Voice of April 22, 1910, ran an extensive interview on the condition of Winnipeg’s water supply from artesian wells with S.J. Andrews, who was mayor at the time the Winnipeg Water Works Company was purchased. In the interview, Andrews recollected that Rudolph Hering recommended to city council to use artesian wells, despite many people expressing doubts that such a source was adequate for a growing city.

“Any shortness of water that has been expressed by the city of Winnipeg has been caused by the failure to carry out the recommendation of CoL Ruttan as to the wells to be put down owing to the unexpected great volume of water found in the first well, the city neglected for a long time to sink sufficient wells, and the result that there was for a time a shortage of water

“Since then the city has been persuaded to sink more wells, with the result that at the present time, though we are using much more than we have ever used before, we have today much more water than is required.”

The supply was so plentiful that Andrews maintained it was adequate for a city 10 times Winnipeg’s size.

He claimed that water obtained from the Winnipeg River would not be drinkable unless treated, as “construction camps along the Winnipeg River have been compelled to forbid the use of the water without being boiled or filtered, because of the typhoid fever -in the camps, caused by drinking it unfiltered.”

Andrews said that since sewage from towns along the Winnipeg River, Lake of the Woods and Rainy River all went into the water, these were not viable options for obtaining a safe supply of drinking water for Winnipeg.

“I became satisfied of the sufficiency of our water supply only after very careful consideration, and instead of having any reason since to doubt the conclusion reached at the time, each year has confirmed my conviction that we have no reason whatever to fear any shortage of water, even if our wildest dreams as to Winnipeg’s growth are, as I trust they will be, verified.”

But Andrews’ views were steadily becoming the opinion of a minority of Winnipeggers. Even as early as 1906, councillors were disillusioned with engineer Col. Ruttan’s “glittering theories.”

A July 17, 1906, editorial in the Telegram deplored the artesian well system as expensive and disappointing. Yet, the same editorial proposed Lake Manitoba as a source of Winnipeg’s water.

A 1913 bylaw for a $1-million pipeline for the city’s Popular Springs artesian well system was defeated in a referendum by ratepayers, which prompted city council to hire Professor C.S. Schlichter of Wisconsin to undertake yet another investigation into the city’s water supply.

In his report to the public utility commissioner, Schlichter indicated he favoured the Shoal Lake option, calling for the city’s use of artesian wells to “be abandoned at the earliest possible date. The water is excessively hard, and is corrosive and destructive to an unusual degree.”

He said if the city decided to use Shoal Lake as a water source, it should ensure the area surrounding the lake “must remain in its present wild state.”

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The 50′th anniversary of the province was commemorated itself on July 15, 1920 , with the grand opening of the new Man Provincial Legislative Buildings .
Interestingly the “scandal plagued building” took seven years to complete, and is now regarded as a major landmark of the City of Winnipeg , as well as the Province of Manitoba and indeed symbolizes Manitoba’s progress as well as inherent stability and continual , constant growth.

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Like the caste system of India , where each group sat in a “pecking order”  and knew it well.  Those below you in stature knew well that “you were better than them”.  There were in addition many newcomers to the city of Winnipeg from Ontario and Britain who while being considered “socially acceptable” ,  had to be vetted  and this either chosen to be welcomed or excluded.

In a city of self made men where almost everyone with money had worked very hard to get it, denying access to the local version of “society”  could well be tricky.   Leaders of local Winnipeg society , for example such as Mrs. Colin Campbell, the wife of Manitoba’s Attorney General, reinforced a system of “door keepers”, controlling in essence who was in …. who was “out”, who was invited and who was excluded.

Thus the parties given by wealthy hostesses like Mrs Agustus Nanton and Mrs. George Galt were described in the society collumns in the local established newspapers of note , so that those lower down in the totem pole pecking order could read about it and relish the tidbits of society gossip thrown in their paths.

Mrs. Hugh  Phillips , the wife of a most successful Winnipeg lawyer in 1912 , recalled many many years later “  I remember Mrs. Sutherland – Lady May we called her because she held her head so high and was so grand.  She had a satin blue dining room.  She told W.F. Alloway to be careful of the chairs.  He had sat down and put his feet up on the other chair.  Mrs. George Galt and her husband also entertained on a grand scale.  Her husband , George, and his brother John Galt where partners in a large grocery which among other things the firms’s popular “Blue Ribbon”  brands.  In January 1912 the Galts moved from their home on the corner of Broadway and Donald. to a beautiful new house at 460 Wellington Cresc.  George Galt had designed many features of the house and made sure that it had plenty of room for entertainment and entertaining. The music room was eight meters long and 5 meters wide .  The Galts daughter Alice recalled , years later “We entertained at home a great deal . We would have sing songs and roll back the rugs id we wanted to dance.  We had any number of small parties of about a dozen people or less .  We had gotten our first gramophone in 1908, but if we wanted to dance mother would play …When we were going to have a dance my sister and I  my sister and I carried up most of the furniture up to the third floor to the would be billiards room so that if people wanted to go up there and sit they could.

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