Famous People of Manitoba » Winnipeg Free Press http://famouspeopleofmanitoba.kirks-office.com Winnipeg Canada Persons of Note Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hannah Steiner http://famouspeopleofmanitoba.kirks-office.com/508/hannah-steiner/ http://famouspeopleofmanitoba.kirks-office.com/508/hannah-steiner/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:08:35 +0000 admin http://www.famouspeopleofmanitoba.ca/?p=508 Hannah was born on February 7, 1923 in Whitemouth. Hannah settled in this area with her parents in 1946. Her father, Ferdinand Kuhn was born on March 2, 1893, and her mother was born on March 7, 1904.

Mrs. Steiner’s father settled at Lonely Dale where his family farmed. Hannah’s mother came to Whitemouth in 1922 where her family settled by where Harvey Endler now lives. In 1946, Hannah’s parents started farming in Whitemouth. They shipped cream and raised chickens. Her father also cut cordwood for extra money.

Hannah attended Lonely Dale School where she got up to grade 6. The family got their first car in 1939. It was an Essex. Her family traveled by horse in and before the 40’s.

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Actual construction on the aqueduct began after the opening of tenders on September 19, 1914. Three major Winnipeg-based companies — Tremblay McDiarmid Company, Thos. Kelly & Sons Ltd., and the Winnipeg Aqueduct Construction Company — were awarded the contracts for the aqueduct. The first phase involved the diversion of the Falcon River, which had previously flowed into Shoal Lake at Indian Bay. The diversion was a key to the project as it allowed the development of the Indian Bay source without the need for treatment based on aesthetics (colour), ac cording to Ron Sorokowski and Duane Griffin, from the city’s water and waste department, and Chris Macey and Ken Skaftfeld, of UMA Enìgineering Ltd., the authors of the 2008 article Winnipeg’s Aqueduct.
On July 5, 1915, the Free Press re ported that prior to the diversion, the Falcon River discharged dirty-looking water into a corner of the bay, as a result of swamp water draining into the river.
Before construction on a gate house and pumping station at Indian Bay commenced large boulders at the intake site were removed by blasting and a dike was built near the entrance of the bay to divert the Falcon River.
Fuertes and Chace were on-hand when the first earth for the Falcon diversion into Snowshoe Bay was lifted by a steam shovel on June 17, 1914.
The Winnipeg Free Press on March 13,1918, reported building the 7,000 foot long (2,133.6 metre) dike required “about 230,000” yards of material, all of which was obtained from a borrow pit and quarry located at the north end of the dyke (sic).
“A large number of drainage and offtake ditches were necessary in order to drain the country properly before actual construction of the aqueduct was commenced” on May 15, 1915.
Although the route for the aqueduct was over swamp, muskeg, sand and rock, overall construction was alleviated by the fact that it was downhill for most of its length with the exception of 14 kilometres from Indian Bay. A deep cut several metres down in the rough land was made during this initial phase of the aqueduct construction.
The aqueduct was built under the Whitemouth and Falcon rivers using inverted siphons. In total, four rivers were burrowed under at six locations by using inverted siphons, a process used in Roman aqueduct construction.
The trench running the aqueduct’s length was rough-cut using steam shovels, dredges and dragline scrapers with workers trimming away the remaining 150 millimetres by hand. By the end of the project, 1.65 million cubicmetres of earth had been excavated.
Less than a year into the project, the First World War intervened. The March 13, 1918, Free Press, when reporting on the history of the aqueduct, said the war had the “effect of making it much more difficult to secure money and also causing a scarcity of labor.”
Despite the pressures of the war effort depleting the available labour pool, over 2,500 workers would be involved at the peak of the project’s construction phase.
The Free Press said over the course of the first year, 21.4 kilometres (13.3 miles) of the aqueduct were built, or 14.6 percent. During the 1916 season, 37 kilometres (23 miles) were built, so that the project was by then 41.6 per cent complete.
The method used to build the aqueduct was cut-and-cover. A one-metre trench was dug and a horseshoe-shaped conduit, averaging about 2.7 metres in height, was poured between steel forms. When the concrete cured, the forms were stripped and the pipe was covered by earth, which was necessary to prevent the water from freezing during Manitoba’s cold winters.
Every 1,524 metres, manholes were installed to allow for maintenance inspections. Surprisingly, early inspections of the aqueduct’s interior involved lowering the water level and men then boating through the sections.
“The invert slabs were poured in alternating 4.5-metre-hng sections and screeded to a smooth surface,” said the authors of Winnipeg’s Aqueduct. “Once these sections were cured, closure sections were poured. Following immediately after the completion of the invert slabs, the arch was built in 13.7-metre- long sections, also in an alternating pat tern, using an inner and outer slip form. The forms were advanced along sets of rails on the middle and outside edge of the completed invert. Several reinforced crossings were provided within the up per reaches in anticipation of future road crossings
“The specifications also required that between the walls of the trench and the aqueduct select earth backfill would be tamped carefully in 150 millimetre lifts to a depth of 1.2 metres. As the designers explained, this precaution was taken in conjunction with a. moderately light design of arch.”
However, the arch was “quite safe against the pressures of earth backfill even without packed earth at the haunches.”
A steam shovel was then used to place the remainder of the backfill over “the aqueduct to a depth of 1.2 metres in the case of solid material or 1.5 metres in the case of peaty material.”
The GWWD supplied all the cement required for the aqueduct, but contractors were charged for any wasted cement.
“All aggregate (mixed with the cement to make concrete) is supplied by the district (GWWD) and delivered to the camp sites of the contractors,” reported the Free Press. “This is obtained from gravel pits along the route of the (Greater Winnipeg) Water District rail way. Machinery is maintained at the pits to crush and mix the pit run gravel, so that the aggregate is graded in such a manner to make the densest and most watertight concrete.”
By controlling the cement and aggregate, the GWWD was ensuring the concrete used in the aqueduct was of the highest quality.
As was the case in aqueducts serving ancient Rome, water from the Shoal Lake aqueduct was channeled to a massive reservoir. At Deacon, 13 kilometres east of Winnipeg, water from the cistern was distributed via pipelines to the city and the several municipalities making up the GWWD. Over the years, the main Winnipeg reservoir has been expanded to the point that it now can hold 8.8-billion litres of water, the equivalent of a 20-day supply, according to the city of Winnipeg.
The February 1,1919, FreePressre ported figures on the performance of the aqueduct: “Eighty-five million gallons (386.4 million litres) would fill Portage Avenue between the building lines from Main Street to Sherbrook Avenue to a depth of 20 feet (six metres); the con tents of the (Deacon) reservoir … combined with the contents of the reservoir now owned by the city of Winnipeg (McPhillips), would fill this same area to a depth of 63 feet (19.2 metres), or to the height of the fourth story (sic) windows.”
Chief engineer Chace explained at a meeting of the Winnipeg Rotary Club on October 2, 1918, how the water was to be piped under the Red River. “As you know, we broke through the last portion of rock bore under the Red last Saturday night. The bore, which was made through the uneven starts of lime stone rock, will be lined with cast-iron pipe 60 inches (1.524 metres) in diameter, the joints of which will be caulked from the inside. On the St. Boniface (then a separate municipality) side this will be connected with the 66 inch (1.678.4 metres) reinforced concrete pipe forming that portion of the aqueduct; and on the Winnipeg side it will be joined up with the 48 inch (1.219.2 metres) reinforced concrete pipe running along Pacific Avenue to McPhillips Street (then the site of the only reservoir within the city’s boundaries).
“After the pipe is laid along the (24- metre-deep) tunnel, we propose filling in the overbreak, which has been fairly regular, by pouring in concrete, in its thin state, from the surface of the ground down a shaft, guiding it by pipes which can be shortened as the overbreak is gradually filled.”
The scope of the project was such that a motion picture was advertised to run at the Dominion Theatre in February, “showing the construction, engineering, works, aqueduct and district from Indian Lake (sic) right through to Winnipeg.”
The advertisement said every resident of the city should view the film to obtain “a proper understanding of the importance and magnitude of Winnipeg’s great water scheme. It ranks among the major undertakings of the world.”
By the end of March 1919, the aqueduct was essentially completed.Wesley College and Students Quarters Winnipeg MB
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Actual construction on the aqueduct began after the opening of tenders on September 19, 1914. Three major Winnipeg-based companies — Tremblay McDiarmid Company, Thos. Kelly & Sons Ltd., and the Winnipeg Aqueduct Construction Company — were awarded the contracts for the aqueduct. The first phase involved the diversion of the Falcon River, which had previously flowed into Shoal Lake at Indian Bay. The diversion was a key to the project as it allowed the development of the Indian Bay source without the need for treatment based on aesthetics (colour), ac cording to Ron Sorokowski and Duane Griffin, from the city’s water and waste department, and Chris Macey and Ken Skaftfeld, of UMA Enìgineering Ltd., the authors of the 2008 article Winnipeg’s Aqueduct.

On July 5, 1915, the Free Press re ported that prior to the diversion, the Falcon River discharged dirty-looking water into a corner of the bay, as a result of swamp water draining into the river.

Before construction on a gate house and pumping station at Indian Bay commenced large boulders at the intake site were removed by blasting and a dike was built near the entrance of the bay to divert the Falcon River.

Fuertes and Chace were on-hand when the first earth for the Falcon diversion into Snowshoe Bay was lifted by a steam shovel on June 17, 1914.

The Winnipeg Free Press on March 13,1918, reported building the 7,000 foot long (2,133.6 metre) dike required “about 230,000” yards of material, all of which was obtained from a borrow pit and quarry located at the north end of the dyke (sic).

“A large number of drainage and offtake ditches were necessary in order to drain the country properly before actual construction of the aqueduct was commenced” on May 15, 1915.

Although the route for the aqueduct was over swamp, muskeg, sand and rock, overall construction was alleviated by the fact that it was downhill for most of its length with the exception of 14 kilometres from Indian Bay. A deep cut several metres down in the rough land was made during this initial phase of the aqueduct construction.

The aqueduct was built under the Whitemouth and Falcon rivers using inverted siphons. In total, four rivers were burrowed under at six locations by using inverted siphons, a process used in Roman aqueduct construction.

The trench running the aqueduct’s length was rough-cut using steam shovels, dredges and dragline scrapers with workers trimming away the remaining 150 millimetres by hand. By the end of the project, 1.65 million cubicmetres of earth had been excavated.

Less than a year into the project, the First World War intervened. The March 13, 1918, Free Press, when reporting on the history of the aqueduct, said the war had the “effect of making it much more difficult to secure money and also causing a scarcity of labor.”

Despite the pressures of the war effort depleting the available labour pool, over 2,500 workers would be involved at the peak of the project’s construction phase.

The Free Press said over the course of the first year, 21.4 kilometres (13.3 miles) of the aqueduct were built, or 14.6 percent. During the 1916 season, 37 kilometres (23 miles) were built, so that the project was by then 41.6 per cent complete.

The method used to build the aqueduct was cut-and-cover. A one-metre trench was dug and a horseshoe-shaped conduit, averaging about 2.7 metres in height, was poured between steel forms. When the concrete cured, the forms were stripped and the pipe was covered by earth, which was necessary to prevent the water from freezing during Manitoba’s cold winters.

Every 1,524 metres, manholes were installed to allow for maintenance inspections. Surprisingly, early inspections of the aqueduct’s interior involved lowering the water level and men then boating through the sections.

“The invert slabs were poured in alternating 4.5-metre-hng sections and screeded to a smooth surface,” said the authors of Winnipeg’s Aqueduct. “Once these sections were cured, closure sections were poured. Following immediately after the completion of the invert slabs, the arch was built in 13.7-metre- long sections, also in an alternating pat tern, using an inner and outer slip form. The forms were advanced along sets of rails on the middle and outside edge of the completed invert. Several reinforced crossings were provided within the up per reaches in anticipation of future road crossings

“The specifications also required that between the walls of the trench and the aqueduct select earth backfill would be tamped carefully in 150 millimetre lifts to a depth of 1.2 metres. As the designers explained, this precaution was taken in conjunction with a. moderately light design of arch.”

However, the arch was “quite safe against the pressures of earth backfill even without packed earth at the haunches.”

A steam shovel was then used to place the remainder of the backfill over “the aqueduct to a depth of 1.2 metres in the case of solid material or 1.5 metres in the case of peaty material.”

The GWWD supplied all the cement required for the aqueduct, but contractors were charged for any wasted cement.

“All aggregate (mixed with the cement to make concrete) is supplied by the district (GWWD) and delivered to the camp sites of the contractors,” reported the Free Press. “This is obtained from gravel pits along the route of the (Greater Winnipeg) Water District rail way. Machinery is maintained at the pits to crush and mix the pit run gravel, so that the aggregate is graded in such a manner to make the densest and most watertight concrete.”

By controlling the cement and aggregate, the GWWD was ensuring the concrete used in the aqueduct was of the highest quality.

As was the case in aqueducts serving ancient Rome, water from the Shoal Lake aqueduct was channeled to a massive reservoir. At Deacon, 13 kilometres east of Winnipeg, water from the cistern was distributed via pipelines to the city and the several municipalities making up the GWWD. Over the years, the main Winnipeg reservoir has been expanded to the point that it now can hold 8.8-billion litres of water, the equivalent of a 20-day supply, according to the city of Winnipeg.

The February 1,1919, FreePressre ported figures on the performance of the aqueduct: “Eighty-five million gallons (386.4 million litres) would fill Portage Avenue between the building lines from Main Street to Sherbrook Avenue to a depth of 20 feet (six metres); the con tents of the (Deacon) reservoir … combined with the contents of the reservoir now owned by the city of Winnipeg (McPhillips), would fill this same area to a depth of 63 feet (19.2 metres), or to the height of the fourth story (sic) windows.”

Chief engineer Chace explained at a meeting of the Winnipeg Rotary Club on October 2, 1918, how the water was to be piped under the Red River. “As you know, we broke through the last portion of rock bore under the Red last Saturday night. The bore, which was made through the uneven starts of lime stone rock, will be lined with cast-iron pipe 60 inches (1.524 metres) in diameter, the joints of which will be caulked from the inside. On the St. Boniface (then a separate municipality) side this will be connected with the 66 inch (1.678.4 metres) reinforced concrete pipe forming that portion of the aqueduct; and on the Winnipeg side it will be joined up with the 48 inch (1.219.2 metres) reinforced concrete pipe running along Pacific Avenue to McPhillips Street (then the site of the only reservoir within the city’s boundaries).

“After the pipe is laid along the (24- metre-deep) tunnel, we propose filling in the overbreak, which has been fairly regular, by pouring in concrete, in its thin state, from the surface of the ground down a shaft, guiding it by pipes which can be shortened as the overbreak is gradually filled.”

The scope of the project was such that a motion picture was advertised to run at the Dominion Theatre in February, “showing the construction, engineering, works, aqueduct and district from Indian Lake (sic) right through to Winnipeg.”

The advertisement said every resident of the city should view the film to obtain “a proper understanding of the importance and magnitude of Winnipeg’s great water scheme. It ranks among the major undertakings of the world.”

By the end of March 1919, the aqueduct was essentially completed.

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]]> http://famouspeopleofmanitoba.kirks-office.com/342/the-90th-anniversary-of-shoal-lake-aqueduct-ruote-went-over-swamp-muskeg-sand-and-rock/feed/ 0 Prelude to Arborg tax revolt Farmers’ Army leaves http://famouspeopleofmanitoba.kirks-office.com/231/prelude-to-arborg-tax-revolt-farmers-army-leaves/ http://famouspeopleofmanitoba.kirks-office.com/231/prelude-to-arborg-tax-revolt-farmers-army-leaves/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:28:06 +0000 admin http://www.famouspeopleofmanitoba.ca/?p=231 Premier John Bracken should have realized the delegation in his Manitoba legis1ature office was merely the harbinger of things to come. If he had, Bracken would have listened with greater sympathy to their demands and realized desperate people are prone to perform desperate acts. Instead, the Manitoba premier dismissed the demands of the delegation representing the “Farmers’ Army” as inspired by communist agitators.

Actually, the premier had good reason to be suspicious of Communist influence. At a mass rally in Market Square on Sunday evening, speakers urged workers and farmers to unite to form a “Soviet Canada.”

The crowd gathered outside Bracken’s office in the Manitoba Legislature on Monday was stirred up into vocal resentment of the actions of the police who had prevented another mass rally that day in Market Square, as well as the presence of local labour organizers, some of whom had ties to the Communist Party.

Who ordered the presence of police to prevent the mass meeting is not revealed, but a city law prohibited such gatherings in    afternoon at the square, a throwback to the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. The night-time mass meeting in Market Square on Sun day, October 16, 1932, went ahead as scheduled, but when the farmers and then workers applied for a permit to hold a mass meeting in the afternoon the following day, their request was re fused.

Although they permit, at two o’clock on Monday, October 17, local workers and the marchers from the Farmers’ Army approached the square from William Avenue and King, Albert and Princess streets. They were prevented from entering the square by police, who had cordoned off the en trances to the square.

“The marchers were deployed into streets running south and finally, under police supervision, were re-united on Donald Street,” reported the October 18, 1932, Winnipeg Free Press. “The throng marched along Portage Avenue to Edmonton Street where they were again turned south by a police cordon across Portage Avenue. Continuing down Edmonton to Broadway, the crowd turned on its own toward the Parliament buildings, where a cordon of Royal Canadian Mounted Police barred the entrance against all but the appointed delegates, 11 in number, who presented the grievances and demands to Premier Bracken- and (Winnipeg) Mayor Ralph Webb, the manager of the Malborough Hotel, a seven-time mayor of the city and a long serving MLA at a time when politicians were allowed to be elected and serve in both a municipal council and provincial government.

“Outside on the steps (of the legislature) in the chill northeast wind, a forest banners were erected bearing slogans , denunciation remarks against federal and provincial relief system”.

Speakers haranguing the crowd while Bracken promised the delegates that standing atop a trunk in the parking lot, law and order would prevail and there included local labour leaders Charles Watson, Joe Forkin, James Shaw, Oscar Morgan, Bill Black, Cecil Spence, O. Wade and Aubrey Brock.

“Appeals were made to the assembly make stand fast in the struggle between the workers and the ‘parasitic capitalist’ class who were referred to as being the cause of (Great) Depression and hard times.”

The crowd of about 400 farmers and local workers greeted one speaker with prolonged cheers when he announced the platforms of the Communist Party was still being actively pursued in Manitoba and across Canada.

The people gathered were said to have amused themselves by cheering the speakers, jeering the Mounties and breaking out into The International while they awaited the return of the delegates.

“You have asked to be given everything and play for nothing” said the premier during the four-hour and 20 minute October 17, 1932, meeting. “Do you know of any place on earth where a fraction of your requests are in force? If you do I wish you would tell me where it is.”

Bracken promised the delegates that law and order would prevail and there would be no “give aways.”

Bracken said he would never have agreed to see the delegates if he had known they were going to attempt to make the government a party to sort of propaganda that was being spread outside.

Outside, the shouts of the speakers haranguing them intense agitation “could plainly be heard in the premier’s office’” according to the report in the Winnipeg Free Press.

During the meeting, the premier pestered delegation head, Michael Sawiak of Winnipeg, to admit he was a communist. Bracken was of the opinion he had been tricked into seeing a delegation of farmers who turned out to be led by a Communist sympathizer.

Bracken undoubtedly knew that Sawiak, the editor of Farmers’ Life, a Ukrainian-language weekly publication, had Communist leanings. Sawiak already had a record for supporting Communist candidates and started out in politics as a Communist candidate in school board elections. During civic election meetings, Sawiak appealed to the people to vote communist because the party worked for “‘the overthrow of the capitalist system,’ and demanded employment or full maintenance by the government,” according to the Free Press.

His political views would result in Sawiak being interned during the Second World War as an undesirable enemy alien.

“You have ruined your chance of get ting a hearing here again,” Bracken told Sawiak. “You knew that the government had refused to hear any more deputations.”

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