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CommentAuthormrchristian
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
Cool find ES...This summer I plan to go to the old BMHC site in Brandon - the old mental hospital that Assiniboine Community College has now moved into one of the buildings there. They have a graveyard back in the bush of patients that died over the decades. -
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CommentAuthormrchristian
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2008 edited
Actually, Jewish farmers settled in Transocna, there was a small community. See p 224 of <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=ORDFC43PDZwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=canada%27s+jews+a+social+and+economic+study+of+jews+in+canada+in+the+1930s&sig=spC8vBM2NJ7IlSHvb3KnSqjOyYM">
Canada's Jews: A Social and Economic Study of Jews in Canada in the 1930s"</a>" By Louis Rosenberg. I came across this book before and see that Google Books has excerpts of it up - Google and you should get it. Not sure if it's in the library or not. -
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- CommentAuthorwolfboy
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
ah, which makes sense.
that area was thoroughly rural until very recently. as a kid in the 70's, i remember it being a bit farm-ish--like the old guy in the shack on the corner of plessis and springfield who had all the sheep and chickens well into the 90's. -
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CommentAuthorjim
- CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
Also all the Immigrants at the yards working some of them lived in the area I would think and surly some were of the Jewish faith. -
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- CommentAuthorburningdust
- CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
<blockquote><cite>Posted By: wolfboy</cite>ah, which makes sense.
that area was thoroughly rural until very recently. as a kid in the 70's, i remember it being a bit farm-ish--like the old guy in the shack on the corner of plessis and springfield who had all the sheep and chickens well into the 90's.</blockquote>
He's still there; Last week the sheep got out end ended up on Grassie. lol.
And there's also the winnipeg/springfield "Pickton Farm" looking place at plessis and Gunn. Nice!
I like the sign they used to have "Keep out: this area under 24/7 video survalience, Anyone Tresspassing will be caught".
anyone lookin' to steal a trashed 1983 sunbird? -
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CommentAuthorBubberMiley
- CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
But doesn't Sandy Shindleman have plans to pave that bush you were in for parking and stucco-box retail?Thankful People: Jimmytufish -
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- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
This is the first I hear of this, Bubber. I hope you heard wrong, I'd hate to see it developed. That cemetary tucked away in the bush is as it should be. And aside from that where would Canadian Tire dump their old tires then? There were piles of old tires and broken wood pellets back there, no recent tires though, older truck tires. -
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CommentAuthorJimmytufish
- CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
He may not have any plans right now, but it's inevitable isn't it? ;) -
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- CommentAuthorInthePeg
- CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
I believe the plans are there. -
- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
This evening armed with my new old camera I trekked back into that bush to take some photos. You can't get into the cemetary so the best I could do is through the fence shots. Unfortunately me being a very greenhorn amateur I somehow lost a few of the pictures I took....namely the ones of the cemetary sign. Here goes........
First picture is the trail into the cemetary. -
- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
More of the trail......you can actually see faint tire tracks so some sort of vehicle does plow through there. -
- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
The cemetary itself......if you lok closely at the stone you will see the last name Katz.......a relation to our mayor perhaps? -
- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
And what I did not realize the last time is if you walk about 20-25 feet west of my bush trail theres a open field, part of the west side of the cemetery fence is exposed to the field, but very hard to see anything from that vantage point. -
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CommentAuthorjim
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
Went and checked this out for myself awhile back was really neat and sorta humbiling as you wonder what when and who cared then and now. -
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- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeJul 14th 2008
One last shot from the exposed west side, can't really see through the fence at all so the best bet is the trek through the bush! After the skeeters die down I'll go back and get better shots. -
- CommentAuthorEastSider
- CommentTimeJul 19th 2008
I finally got a response from the local museum on the Synagogue in Transcona that I reside in and the cemetary that I thought might be connected to it. Here is the email I received....
Hi Mr. Thiessen,
After looking through our archives we unfortunately cannot find the name of the Jewish synagogue on Melrose, but we do know that the cemetery has no relation to it. The cemetery is the B’Nai Israel (Children of Israel) Jewish Cemetery, and was built in 1883 by the Winnipeg Jewish community who chose the site due to the religious practice of separating the living from the dead, making it the oldest Jewish cemetery in western Canada. The last burial took place in 1933, and the site is now owned by the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact us. Below is also the contact information for the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, who, to the best of my knowledge, has all the cemetery’s records.
Shaarey Zedek Synagogue
561 Wellington Crescent, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3M 0A6
(204) 452-3711
http://www.shaareyzedek.mb.ca/
It really makes me wonder if the historical society knows what they're talking about when they say this was a synagogue...wouldn't the name of it be recorded somewhere??