Educational and Public Program of the Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg
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The Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg Canada is a cornerstone of the Province of Manitoba’s educational system. Each year fully 90,000 Manitoba school children visit the facility for curriculum based guided as well as student and group leader led programs. Thousands more visit the Museum of Man and Nature in Winnipeg with their families to take part in MuZZeum Sleepovers , Spring Break and Summertime Day Camps and the special event programs during Halloween , Christmas and the school year Spring Break.
April 11th, 2009
Winnipeg Historic Newspaper Notes Noted
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The “Winnipeg Free Press” and the historic Winnipeg “Morning Telegram” both published papers early on in Manitoba’s history.
Notices and information in these papers might include information and notes on ways to entertain one self in early Winnipeg. For example posts might note a hockey game at the auditorium rink , which stood at the south side of York Avenue between Fort and Garry streets. For example the Winnipeg Victorias defeated the Montreal New Edinburghs by a score of 5 to2, in one series of games that wound up the following series on a following Saturday with the Victorias finally capturing the “Allen Cup”.
Again when it came to New Years day many people could be found involved in the sport of curling. All rinks could be busy – the Strathcona , the Granite , the Civic and the Assiniboine Curling clubs were among those notable Winnipeg and Manitoba curling clubs of the day- many still major and noted historic curling seasons in 2009.
For those not involved in sports but rather the arts – the Winnipeg newspapers of the day listed many theatres and arts attractions - be it the “Walker Theatre” , the “Winnipeg Theatre”, or the Winnipeg “Opera House”. One of the newest theatres of the time was “The Orpheum” – a brand theatre at the time – on Fort Street as well as the Empress Theatre which often carried Vaudeville shows. Of course performances of religious based presentations such as those held at First Baptist Church in Winnipeg could be found hosted on a regular as well as ongoing basis.
Manitoba Farmers – Historic Double Murder Trial
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Continuing on with the Brandon Manitoba held double murder trial – it appeared that under cross examination that in actuality witnesses could not absolute provide proof that the black coloured notebook in question – could not actually be proved certain that it was indeed the property or even had been in the possession of Mr. Gordon.
Next a new witness was presented to the court. An American soldier named , T.J. Sears, who it was recorded had been stationed as a soldier at Fort Meade. It turned out that Gordon himself was the assistant galley cook under soldier Sears. Sears went on to testify , under oath, that Mr. Walker testified that Mr. Gordon had volunteered in conversations that he had “got into trouble” with two farmers in Manitoba when he had bought a farm from one farmer and animal stock from the other Manitoba farmer. It was later claimed in the newspaper “The Telegram”, after the trial ended , that an article in the newspaper claimed that Gordon had actually told and confessed to Sears that he had in actuality murdered the two “Manitoba farmers”.
Whether this was true or newsman’s license to sensationalize after the fact – no one will ever know.
Historic Boissevain Manitoba
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Walter Gordon took his place in the prisoner’’s box in the Brandon Manitoba courthouse . Justice Joseph Dubec presided. It had transpired that during the two earlier proceedings , neither had Mr. Walter Gordon admitted his guilt nor entered a guilty plea. It was a “not guilty” plea that Mr. Gordon entered. All in all in terms of witnesses who appeared at the trial it was basically the same grouping as from the prelim trial (preliminary) which had been held earlier in Boissevain Manitoba. For the second round of this “double murder trial” it was basically and essentially the same witnesses recounting the same tales and evidence. Too the greatest degree it had been said , heard and presented before.
During the trial sessions , murder victim’s hired hand Mr. Walter Jackson said that had written himself clearly and legibly in a black coloured notebook “ Have got a whisper where Smith and Daw are. I am going to make it most interesting for them always. Do not let it out”.
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Officer Cox testified in court , that he had in his possession an actual letter which was said to have been written by Mr. Gordon to Mr. john Mutch of Powell , which was nearby Medicine Hat of the Northwest Territories ( now the Province of Alberta Canada), which the Officer had turned over to Manitoba Provincial Police Chief Mr. Edward J. Elliot. The letter itself described the animal stock as well as the crop that Gordon had purchased. In the letter itself , Mr. Walter Gordon had asked Mr. Mutch for a loan of $ 200 for two or three months with “ good interest.