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unusual facts about West End, Winnipeg



1978 Air Canada Silver Broom

The 1978 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 27 - April 2 at the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

201 Portage

Having declared bankruptcy and sold its media properties, Canwest has vacated the premises; its main successor Shaw Media will retain only the lease for the 30th floor, where the Global Winnipeg studios are located.

7th Canadian Infantry Brigade

On the Canadian right the II Battalion attacked the Royal Winnipeg Rifles defending the village of Putot-en-Bessin.

Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius

These include Our Lady's Church, Montreal (1952), St. St. Casimir's Church, Winnipeg and St. Gregory's Church, Toronto (1959), Lithuanian Martyrs' Church, Mississauga, Providence of God Church and Cultural Center, Detroit and St. Thomas Church, London (1978), Corporation Canadien Tire Building, Toronto (1979) etc.

Bill Heindl, Jr.

Heindl began his junior hockey career in Winnipeg, Manitoba, playing for the Winnipeg Braves, and then joined the Oshawa Generals of the OHA for the 1965–66 season.

Black Bridge

The plethora of metal music featured in the film was generously contributed by Winnipeg metal acts Lawsuit and Labyrinth along with Canadian metal acts Goat Horn, Betrayer, Kick Axe, Thor, Anvil, Helix, Brighton Rock, Trained Bears and the American group Geronimo!

Brookside Cemetery

Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg in Winnipeg, Manitoba holds more than 6500 servicemen and women, includes 470 war graves.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The CCPA is based in Ottawa but has branch offices in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Regina, Toronto and Halifax.

Cap-Rouge, Quebec City

Built in 1907-1908 with the participation of Gustave Eiffel, the steel trestle was constructed under the authority of the National Transcontinental as part of the Winnipeg-Moncton trunk.

Centreport

CentrePort Canada, an inland port in Winnipeg and Rosser, Manitoba, Canada.

CIIT

CIIT-DT, a religious television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba

CSLR

Centre scolaire Léo-Rémillard - a French high school situated south of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Dorothy, Minnesota

Dorothy initially was established as a railroad station in 1916-17 after the Northern Pacific Railway extended its line from Tilden Junction to Winnipeg and built a spur through Red Lake Falls.

Eddy Cobiness

Cobiness died in Winnipeg, Manitoba on January 1, 1996 to the effect of complications from diabetic.

Ex-Soldiers and Ex-Sailors Party of Manitoba

In the provincial election of 1920, the party ran Samuel Cartwright as part of the ten-member labour list in Winnipeg.

Fisher River Cree Nation

Fisher River (Ochekwi-Sipi) is a Cree First Nations reserve located approximately 193 km north of Manitoba's capital city, Winnipeg.

George Adam Scott

He prepared for a teaching profession at the Normal School of Winnipeg, after which he taught for seven years, three of which he was the principal of the public schools of Wawanesa, Manitoba.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Jackson Dodds

Born in Hornsey, Middlesex, England, Dodds first went to Canada in 1901, but did not finally settle in Winnipeg, Manitoba, until after serving with the British Army in World War I.

James Henry Ashdown

In 1907, Ashdown was elected mayor of Winnipeg and served for two years before being defeated by William Sanford Evans.

John G. Stackhouse, Jr.

From there, he went to teach Modern Christianity (history, sociology, philosophy, and theology) in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada, rising to the rank of Professor in 1997 and receiving the university's top awards for research and for outreach to the community (via his newspaper column and other media appearances).

KICK

CKIC-FM, a radio station (92.9 FM) licensed to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, branded as KICK-FM

Les Surveillantes

After their success in the Réseau National des Galas de la chanson, the group performed at many festivals, including Coup de Coeur francophone Montreal, and Winnipeg in November 2009, and in 2010 the Festival Vue sur la Relève at Montreal in 2010, the Chicane Albertaine at Nordegg, and the Festival international de la chanson de Granby (out of contest).

Lorne Campbell

That season he played for Winnipeg in its unsuccessful Stanley Cup challenge.

Mark Field

He has run local campaigns on business rates, St Bartholomew's Hospital, assisting the creative industries, the control of rickshaws in the West End, social housing rent rises, the independence of the City of London Police and in July 2011 successfully argued in Parliament for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's continuing control of the Royal Parks.

Mark Summer

Looking for alternative genres, he left the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra playing in an assortment of alternative ensembles until, while in Winnipeg, Summer met violinists Darol Anger and shortly after he was invited by David Balakrishnan and Darol to join Turtle Island, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1985 to perform permanently with the band.

Marty O'Neill

Marty O'Neill, born June 6, 1964 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a former lacrosse player and former general manager of the Minnesota Swarm of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).

Milt Stegall

He also was honoured with a street in Winnipeg adjacent to Canad Inns Stadium formerly called Arena Road (in reference to the former Winnipeg Arena) which was renamed Milt Stegall Drive.

Norris Division

The Winnipeg Jets return to the Smythe Division when the Colorado Rockies move to East Rutherford, New Jersey, to become the New Jersey Devils; the Devils are moved from the Smythe Division to the Patrick Division.

Peter Tuddenham

Back home, he won a part in Ivor Novello's The Dancing Years and, following stints in West End revues and farces, worked with Noël Coward in Ace of Clubs.

Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas

The Bahamians accomplished by overprinting 5d Staircase issues with "SPECIAL / DELIVERY" and sending them to Canada, where they were on sale in four post offices (Ottawa, Toronto, Westmount, and Winnipeg) for 10 cents each.

Richard Waugh

Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938), Canadian politician, mayor of Winnipeg

Richmond Sockeyes

After four tough games in four days in Comox, the team had only a couple of days of rest before flying to Winnipeg and boarding a team bus to St. Malo, Manitoba to represent British Columbia at the 2013 Keystone Cup – the Western Canadian Junior B Championships.

Royal Winnipeg Ballet

In 2002, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of the story of Dracula, choreographed by Mark Godden, was filmed in a made for television titled Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary directed by Guy Maddin.

Sand Hill Road

The annual rent in the area around Sand Hill Road peaked at around $144 (USD) per square foot ($1550 per m2) in mid-2000; at the time, this was higher than rates in Manhattan and London's West End.

Santa's Slay

Pastor Timmons is found dead in a Santa suit and is presumed to be the killer, while in fact the real Santa Claus is boarding a flight from Winnipeg to the North Pole.

Sharon Blady

Blady grew up in the neighbourhood of St. James-Assiniboia in Winnipeg, where she attended Buchanan School, Hedges Junior High School, and Collège Silver Heights Collegiate.

Sylvie

This full-length album was recorded with Juno award winning producer Brandon Friesen at Studio 11 in Winnipeg.

Terror in the Sky

Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the book; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree.

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada Museum

The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Museum is a military museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Week Thus Far

Previous guests have included Winnipeg City Councillor Gord Steeves, nationally syndicated agony aunt Miss Lonelyhearts (Maureen Scurfield), CJOB Traffic Reporter Brian Barkley, and legendary children's performer Fred Penner.

TransCanada pipeline

In late 1957, during a high pressure line test on the section of the line from Winnipeg to Port Arthur (today called Thunder Bay), about five and a half kilometres of pipeline blew up near Dryden.

Under Great White Northern Lights

Exclusive components to the box set includes a live 7" single featuring "Icky Thump" on one side and "The Wheels on the Bus" (records live in Winnipeg on July 2nd, 2007) on the other, a 208-page hardcover book of photographs from the tour, one of six possible silkscreen prints, and a DVD of the band's 10th anniversary show in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, entitled Under Nova Scotian Lights.

WDAY-TV

It must conform its signal to protect CBC Television's Winnipeg station, CBWT, which took to the air on channel 6 a year after WDAY-TV signed on.

West End, Dundee

Since 1998, the city council has developed a "Cultural Quarter" at the boundary between the city centre and the West End which is now home to the Dundee Repertory Theatre, the Whitehall Theatre, the Sensation Science Centre and Dundee Contemporary Arts building as well as other commercial galleries and studios, and the university's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.

Wildwood Park

Wildwood Park, Winnipeg, a suburban community in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Wilma Reading

She made numerous appearances on The Morecambe & Wise Show in 1973 and 1974 and played Julie in a West End production of Showboat, taking over from Cleo Laine.

Winnipeg Lucania FC

Winnipeg Lucania Football Club is an amateur soccer club based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg's Most

This record, titled Goodfellaz, featured artists Krizz Kaliko, The Rupness Monster, Ed E Buk, Zeek Illa, Bubblz, Big Slim, and Inez.


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