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Fher: The First Family Immigrants in Steinbach, Manitoba
It was in Schoneberg, Chortitza Colony in Imperial Russia where Jakob Fher’s life had started, exactly in the year 1809. Genealogist Henry Schapansky has written that Isaac de Fher of Nieder-Chortiza, Chortiza Colony appears to be Jakob Fher’s father. Their family was headed by Benjamin De Fher, Jakob Fher’s grandfather, was listed on the Wirtschaft [...]
Max Labovitch New York Rangers
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Maxwell Labovitch (born January 18, 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Canadian ice hockey player. His physical measurements are 5’11″, 165 pounds.
Career
Labovitch played professional hockey for ten years and missed two seasons due to military service (1942–43 and 1944–45). In 1941-42 he [...]
Have you been to Churchill?
Vintage Manitoba Photo showing yet another view of Victoria Beach East Shore Lake Winnipeg, Province of Manitoba Canada.
This Photo was apparently taken in the year 1930, at the location where Einfeld Bakery was built and has been operated until now by its original family. Victoria Beach is located on the [...]
Gabby relieves the Adventure
Delgado was a university student in Veracruz when he first met the Starkells nine years ago. Jeff Starkell, who had come that far with his brother and father, had just returned to Winnipeg, convinced that to continue the canoe trip would be suicide.
Their first attempt at crossing the Gulf of Mexico had nearly killed the [...]
Grey Nun's Convent – St. Boniface National Historic Site of Canaday
The Grey Nun’s Convent , Winnipeg’s oldest building houses the St. Boniface Museum . Built for the “Grey Nuns” who arrived in the Red River Colony in 1884, the structure is an outstanding example of Red River frame construction and historic construction methods and procedures.
The museum presents an impressive collection of artifacts that reveal both [...]
Manitoba Welcomes the Queen for Its 100 Year Anniversary of Confederation with Canada
July 15, 1970 was the celebrated event when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh , rode a carriage from the CNR (Canadian National Railways) station in Winnipeg down wide Broadway Street. In the following carriages were both Prince Anne and Prince Charles. [...]
Manitoba Lotteries MS Walk
Join the new Manitoba Lotteries MS Walk which takes place this April and May 2009 across the Province of Manitoba Canada. This event has been reenergized and will enable Manitobans to help MS . The website is www.mswalks.ca . Or you can simply call the toll free phone number 1-800-268-7582 to register by phone.
It [...]
Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature
The Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature is one of the Province of Manitoba Canada’s largest attractions welcoming more than 500.000 visitors annually.
The museum holds in trust more than 2.5 million artifacts that reflect both the human and natural history of Manitoba and the world. The collections are both used for reference and [...]
Breadth and Width of Manitoba History , Geography and People of World Wide Fame
It can well be said that both Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba , Canada have a remarkable history as well as historical record. Indeed both can be said to have had a thriving and prosperous historical growth and record of their growth.
Whether this is the result of geography , its placement on the map [...]
