<I>I am happy to say that I am starting up a blogspot blog for the "Day in History" stuff. I find blogspot easier and quicker than either posting it in detail here and or my wordpress blog. At some point, when I have the time, I will go back to my old blog but for now .... I am also posting each entry BY DATE so, as the database grows, you can click on a specific day for all the entires. It will include texts, photos, maps etc. and I will continue to post just the text here on nw: http://thiswaswinnipeg.blogspot.com/ <a href="http://thiswaswinnipeg.blogspot.com/"> http://thiswaswinnipeg.blogspot.com/</a> </I> <br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">July 1, 1957 </span>- The City of East Kildonan is incorporated.
<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2626248005_da26f55852_o.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 387px; height: 234px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2626248005_da26f55852_o.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Free Press July 2 1957: Premier Campbell Presents Mayor George Suttie with the Charter.
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" year="1914" day="1" month="7" st="on">July 1, 1914</st1:date> - <a href="http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/juba_s.shtml">Stephen Juba</a> is born in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Winnipeg</st1:City></st1:place>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:date style="font-weight: bold;" year="1906" day="1" month="7" st="on">July 1, 1906</st1:date><span style="font-weight: bold;"> -</span> the Town of <a href="http://www.gilbertplains.com/">Gilbert Plains</a> is incorporated. </p>
Your new blog looks good MrC. The index (navigating by day) is intuitive. Not sure what else you're looking for (if anything) in the way of feedback but here I go anyway...
* white is right (I'm not a big fan of the black background) * create an index for uber-important days * consider frequently changing the banner to reflect those uber-important days (e.g. The Winnipeg Strike, IF Day...)
Thanks. I'm still kicking the tires on it so an feedback is appreciated. I am trying to include links in each post to other sources of material so that if people are really are interested in something they can link off and check it out in more detail than just my blurb. There are lots of great little museums and sites that people can get to. <br> <br> I will add the links (i have about 200 of them) and the posts of the important days and my little essays for June and then see what a full month looks like before I get too far down the road ! <br> <br> I like the daily thing because often times while looking for something completely different I find a new tidbit or additional information on something already posted. This way I can zero right in on the post, add the information at the time I find it. It would make my messy office and hard drive look a lot cleaner if can just dump stuff as I find it !
<B>July 1, 1996 </B> - The Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes. <br> <br>
<B>July 1, 1886</B> - the first Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental train arrived in Winnipeg from Montreal. It would reach Port Moody BC on July 4 marking the first transcontinental voyage.<br> <br> <B>July 1st, 1941</B> - Helen Marianne Hansford 34 was the first Winnipeg-born woman to join the Winnipeg Police Service. She is also seen to be the first “real” officer as she patrolled streets. She served for 30 years. <br>
Some more history ! I don't want to html all the links etc. in so if you want to see it with links intact:<a href="http://thiswaswinnipeg.blogspot.com/"> my history blog</a> . For some reason the html I get from there doesn't cut and paste nicely into here. <br> <br> July 3 1961 - A 19 year old singer from New York named Barbara Streisand comes to the Town ‘n Country Restaurant and cabaret on Kennedy Street (and Ellice). She played to critical acclaim but her avant-guard style was new for Winnipeggers. The audience watched her quietly, some say it’s because they didn’t get it, others said they were in silence due to her amazing voice. Either way, it was not the type of act the Town and Country wanted and her stint ended on July 16 when the manager of the cabaret suggested that she would not make it as a cabaret singer.<br> <br> It was after this that Streisand changed her first name from Barbara to Barbra to seem more exotic.
<br> <br> <br> <br> Streisand's first tv interview in 1961 - to give you an idea what she was like !<br> <br> Within the year she would be on the road to stardom on Broadway. On her first appearance on the Tonight Show she talked about her recent Winnipeg gig saying she liked it but that the audience was very casual: "I worked in Winnipeg. This was a beautiful nightclub, very posh, except the people wore short shirt sleeves. They didn't wear ties to come to the nightclub"<br> <br> A fan site has a great page dedicated to the Winnipeg stint. http://www.barbra-archives.com/Performances/streisand_towncountry.html There you can also hear an audio clip of her Tonight show interview about Winnipeg, no video exists.<br> <br> Within a couple of years the Town ’n’ Country club would be at the forefront of Winnipeg’s home-grown music scene headlining Lenny Breau, Neil Young’s Squires, Chad Allan & the Reflections sometimes all on the same night http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/guesswho.html<br> <br> The Town ‘n Country would burn down in 1972.<br> <br> For a great overall look at the music scene in Winnipeg in the early 60’s check this out. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/detour/story/4192501p-4783420c.html<br> <br>
July 4 1932 - MacArthur Transportation Company Limited http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/alltime/brandon-mb.html , forerunner to Brandon Transit, begins operations. It changed its name to Brandon Transit in 1955.<br> <br> July 4 1944: Dave Konvalinka of the band Bobby Kris & The Imperials http://www.canadianbands.ca/Bobby%20Kris.html is born in Gimli. <br> <br> July 5, 1889 - Carberry News-Express http://www.carberrynews.ca/ begins life as the “News and Norfolk Intelligencer and Advertiser”. In October 1910 it merged with the Carberry Express to create the current version of the paper. <br> <br> July 5, 1967 - The Queen invests GG Roland Michener with the first Order of Canada http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/07/07/, signaling the creation of the Order http://www.gg.ca/honours/nat-ord/oc/index_e.asp.<br> <br> July 6 - 14 1990 – The Western Canada Summer Games are held in Winnipeg. <br>
<blockquote><cite>Posted By: mrchristian</cite>Oh and July 6th 1874 is also the day that vol 1, issue 1 of the Manitoba Free Press rolled off the line.</blockquote>rosen worked on that press that day. And J2F was the editor.
The Town and Country was owned by Aubrey Galpern (anyone remember Galpern Chocolates). He was the one who informed her that she wasn't cabaret singer material..how little did he know! She went on to bigger things obviously...He went nowhere!) Doesn't surprise me that it burned down. It was a rabbit warren of rooms and additions. According to some sources the place was an electrical nightmare just waiting to cause a fire.
It burned in 71 or 72. In the Western Canada Pictoral index there are two photos listed for taht year. January the 'charred remains' of the TnC and in April or so one of the demolition of the remains. Sadly the index is not on-line so I can't tell what it looked like.
The Town and Country had been enlarged and modified several times over the years, once when Manitoba liquor laws first loosened up to permit liquor with meals and also when cabaret licences were granted. There was a large lounge on the upper level. The original building before the many additions had housed the "Little Gallery" which was an art shop and long before that had been a residence .
<p>Jan 28, 1890. The Winnipeg Tribune publishes its first paper.
<p>Later that year <p>August 1890, Wednesday 06: <p>At Auburn Prison in New York, the first execution by electric chair is performed, with murderer William Kemmler as the subject.
Ahhh...read in the Portage Avenue book...Auby Galpern built an addition to Town and Country in the 60's called The Towers. He then sold it in 69 to the Ginakes bros (Jimmy, John and Perry) In 1970 the original part of the building burned (the T n C) and three years later that part reopened as a cabaret in 73. Entertainers included Chubby Checker, Fats Domino, the Four Lads. In 78 they converted it to Studio 44, a high end disco club. In 1980 it became Stage West Dinner Theatre - I was there, then. My parents had season tickets and I went to see a show when I was really little. It was expropriated for Portage Place.