Saving Jewish heritage in Winnipeg
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The Winnipeg Jewish Theatre is coming to its 22nd season of preserving Jewish heritage in Winnipeg. The Jewish theatre exhibits premium professional artistic performances that mirror the past, present and future of the Jewish culture. Winnipeg Jewish Theatre supports and encourages the production of new Jewish inspired Canadian plays in collaboration with various Canadian playwrights, performers, and producing personnel. The goal of the theater is to promote a better understanding of Jewish culture in the community at large.
January 4th, 2010
Personalities behind the Chamber of Commerce (1980-1985)
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Gerald Reimer
Gerald Reimer (1980)
Gerald Reimer (1980)
Gerald Reimer
At the age of 42, Gerald Reimer became the youngest Chamber president in its history up until then and one of the city’s biggest boosters.Reimer has said that Winnipeg is a great city, yet it is somewhat sad that the media in those days did their best to tear apart the city rather than build it up. The construction of the Bank of Montreal building (the tall building near Portage and Main) was announced when Reimer was president. It was very positive but the The Free Press headline was read as ‘Bank down on Manitoba.’ It was like a totally different event. He went to see the editors and suggested that if his neighbour’s house was burning and he rescued them, the paper would run a headline like: ‘Gerald Reimer breaks into neighbour’s house.’ They told him, oh no, they’d do much worse. They’d likely say: ‘Gerald Reimer rapes neighbour’. There’s been a big improvement in newspaper coverage since then.
As for other memories of his time in office, he fondly recalls being seated at a Chamber luncheon with two provincial premiers, Sterling Lyon and Alberta’s Peter Lougheed. It was an interesting day, he says.
Another event that stands out, but for opposite reasons, was a fire that destroyed The Chamber Club. He was on vacation in Bermuda that time.
Jack Hignell (1981)
Jack Hignell
Jack Hignell will always remember a trip to Japan, at the invitation of the Japanese government, and the insight he gained into how they do business. The Japanese were clearly less confrontational when it came to labour/management relations — yes, there were strikes, but workers would be back on the job within an hour or two. During his term, Hignell would face a prolonged postal strike. They went into competition with them (Canada Post). They had their own postal service between chambers. They’d collect mail (from our members) and send it by courier. They’d sort it and then phone to let members know it had arrived.
“By the end of the strike, they (strikers) were as sick of it as we were,” he laughs.
It was also during his presidency that The Chamber moved into the Grain Exchange Building.
“We were on the lower level of what had been the trading floor,” he says, adding although it was never publicized, there was a suspicion that the fire the year before had been arson— occurring at night and gutting the place.
Dalnavert Museum Winnipeg
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Dalnavert Museum is the restored Victorian era home of Hugh John Mcdonald , son of Canada’s first prime minister Sir John A. Mcdonald. Dalnavert is considered well to be a most fine example of the Queen Anne Revival style of architecture. This style – what is now referred to as the “Queen Anne Revival” era dates to the time around ( circa) 1895.
At the Winnipeg Dalnavert Museum guests can see what it was like for for an affluent family in Winnipeg – in what was considered to be the head ( and certainly the most civilized and major center) of Winnipeg.
Canadian Museum for Human Rights – Preparations Continue to Opening
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights – Preparations Continue to Official Opening
Canadian Museum For Human Rights Near It’s Goal – The donation was motivated by the Museum’s focus on educating youth to the importance of human rights. Winnipeggers should be glowing as the Museum will bring both tourism dollars to Winnipeg, and a sense of pride in providing the world …
Famous People of Manitoba » Canadian Museum of Human Rights … – “It is an honour to be part of the ground breaking for our new Canadian Museum for Human Rights” Manitoba’s Premier Gary Doer said. “We are thrilled to hae such a worthy national institution located in Manitoba , a province with a long …
Winnipeg Free Press – New donation puts museum $2 million away from fundraising goal. Geoff Kirbyson. 2/03/2009 11:43 AM | Comments (6). Print; E–mail. Enlarge Image Enlarge Image icon. The proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Canadian Museum for …
First Exhibit Canadian Museum for Human Rights – The first exhibition for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be an exhibit which premiered at the Human Rights Day Youth Conference – which was organized by the United Nations of Canada , and held at the University of Winnipeg …
Construction of Canada's human rights museum - The Canadian Museum of Human Rights will soon begin construction and will open in 2012. It will be the largest human rights museum in the world.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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At a time when the world was reeling from the great impact of World war 2, Humphrey , who was a legal scholar from new Brunswick Canada, stood up to take action to help make the world a better and kinder place.
Humphrey together with Elanor Roosevelt as well as other committed visionaries around the globe , set out to create a covenant that declare that every person has the right to life, freedom and dignity.
First Exhibit Canadian Museum for Human Rights
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The first exhibition for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be an exhibit which premiered at the Human Rights Day Youth Conference – which was organized by the United Nations of Canada , and held at the University of Winnipeg campus.
The exhibit explored the life of Canadian Peters Humphrey , the principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which was adopted by the United nations on 1948.
Monk’s Harbour
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There also died Francis Nelson , sailing master of the Resolution, and Button gave his name to the strange river coming down out of the unknown land. With him died also many of his shipmates presumably from scurvy , and in the spring of 1612 Button sailed with the survivors of the Discovery, leaving the Resolution to perish by the Nelson. The region of his discovery and costly wintering he called New Wales in honour of his homeland. After exploring the coast northward from Hope Checkt to “Ne Ultra” in sixty-five degrees north, he sailed home to England.
Button made his way back in the most confident hope and hopes, based on observation of the tides , that a passage to the west might yet be found . In 1614, 1615 and the year of 1616 his successors Gibbons, Bylot and Baffin , probed yet deeper into the ice-encumbered waters of both Hudson and Baffin Bays until at length the painstaking Baffin concluded that that there was no passage either way or either means. Others believed however tthat to the north or south of Buttons New Wales a passage might yet be found.
In this belief , Jens Munk, a Danish navigator, sailed into the bay in 1619, and thus followed Button’s course westward. Turning southwest with one ship while the other turned northwards , he discovered and on September 7 , entered the rock bound mouth of a most large river fifty nine degrees , long to be known as “Munk’s Harbour ” and today as “Port Churchill”.
Quest of Human Exploration of the New World Leading to Canada
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At this point a new age indeed had opened up for the modern day explorers. In the “celestial empire’” and the streets of Canton and Ranking were loudly stirring in the rustle and great wealth of the silk trade and trades. A flare with both yellow and scarlet. as in the days of the great explorer Marco Polo. It was the time of the reign of the almost dull Ming emperors. For it was now that a new age had opened . It would leave at rest neither venerable civilizations nor the primitive wildness of what would become British North America , later Canada. The men of Europe in 1612 had for over a century been almost rifting the”New World” for its precious metals and the ancient East for its silks and spices. Yet human nature being what it is in the minds of explorers and rulers , none were all too happy or even satisfied.