Download or read book Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Book 6 in Colour Photos written by Barbara Raue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnipeg is located at the confluence of two rivers, the Assiniboine River and the Red River. The city sits amidst a vast flatland surrounded by hundreds of parks and lakes. The capital city of the Canadian province of Manitoba, Winnipeg has survived battles, uprisings and floods. It has come a long way since its days as a community of trading posts to become one of the most diversified economies in Canada. The city has a number of heritage sites which have earned it the title of Cultural Capital of Canada. One of the most loved fictional characters, Winnie-the-Pooh originated in Winnipeg. In 1914 an orphaned bear cub stole the heart of Canadian Lieutenant Coleburn, who bought it for $20 from a hunter who had shot the cub's mother. The cub was named Winnipeg and became the regimental mascot. When Coleburn travelled to Europe during World War I he smuggled "Winnie" into London, England. He left the bear at the London Zoo to avoid the stress of taking the cub back to Canada. A short time later English author A.A. Milne saw Winnipeg during a visit to the zoo and was struck by the cub's personality. Winnipeg the cub was Milne's inspiration for the creation of the character called WINNIE-THE-POOH. The statue of Winnipeg, the bear cub and Lieutenant Coleburn, can be found in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg. Academy Road runs from Maryland Bridge to Wellington Crescent, and intersects with Wellington. This is Winnipeg's business improvement zone and also one of the most exclusive districts in Winnipeg. This is where you can find exclusive designer boutiques, specialty food shops, luxury bath and beauty products, European fashions and footwear, among other things.
Download or read book Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Book 5 in Colour Photos written by Barbara Raue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnipeg is located at the confluence of two rivers, the Assiniboine River and the Red River. The city sits amidst a vast flatland surrounded by hundreds of parks and lakes. The capital city of the Canadian province of Manitoba, Winnipeg has survived battles, uprisings and floods. It has come a long way since its days as a community of trading posts to become one of the most diversified economies in Canada. The city has a number of heritage sites which have earned it the title of Cultural Capital of Canada. One of the most loved fictional characters, Winnie-the-Pooh originated in Winnipeg. In 1914 an orphaned bear cub stole the heart of Canadian Lieutenant Coleburn, who bought it for $20 from a hunter who had shot the cub's mother. The cub was named Winnipeg and became the regimental mascot. When Coleburn travelled to Europe during World War I he smuggled "Winnie" into London, England. He left the bear at the London Zoo to avoid the stress of taking the cub back to Canada. A short time later English author A.A. Milne saw Winnipeg during a visit to the zoo and was struck by the cub's personality. Winnipeg the cub was Milne's inspiration for the creation of the character called WINNIE-THE-POOH. The statue of Winnipeg, the bear cub and Lieutenant Coleburn, can be found in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg. Academy Road runs from Maryland Bridge to Wellington Crescent, and intersects with Wellington. This is Winnipeg's business improvement zone and also one of the most exclusive districts in Winnipeg. This is where you can find exclusive designer boutiques, specialty food shops, luxury bath and beauty products, European fashions and footwear, among other things. The Manitoba Legislative Building, erected in 1913-20, is a monumental reinforced concrete, steel and stone structure on a formal landscaped site between Broadway and the Assiniboine River in downtown Winnipeg. The pinnacle of Beaux-Arts Classical architecture in the province is an imposing seat of government symbolic of local strength and vitality and of the import of the official functions that occur within its walls. The solid, massive edifice, which dominates its expansive site and is visible from various vantages, is a disciplined expression of classical Greek Revival styling crowned by a symbol of youth and enterprise, the Golden Boy, graced by allegorical and historical ornament, and proudly wrapped in local Tyndall limestone.
Download or read book Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Book 1 in Colour Photos written by Barbara Raue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Gateway to the West' and 'The Chicago of the North' were two of the phrases used to describe Winnipeg's future in the heady days of the late nineteenth century. Especially important in Winnipeg's phenomenal growth was its role as middleman between eastern Canadian manufacturers and their new markets in what would become Alberta and Saskatchewan. As waves of homesteaders from central Canada and many European countries poured into Canada's prairies, dry goods, hardware and groceries all became increasingly important for the consumers, the manufacturers and Winnipeg's warehousemen and wholesalers, and it became increasingly important for Winnipeg's wholesalers to have railway connections both to receive raw materials and stock and to ship goods to western markets. The Exchange District is a well-established and vibrant neighborhood in Winnipeg. It features a large and well-preserved collection of heritage buildings which include huge stone and brick warehouses, elegant terracotta-clad buildings, narrow angled streets and cobblestone paths. The Exchange District is an arts and cultural hub which features a thriving film, arts and music scene with many studios, art spaces, festivals and events. The Exchange District is in downtown Winnipeg just north of Portage and Main. It derives its name from the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, the center of the grain exchange in Canada. The Exchange District is the historic center of commerce in Western Canada. The District developed from the banks of the Red River at the foot of Bannatyne and Dermot Avenues. Most commercial traffic came along the Red River from St. Paul, Minnesota where the nearest rail line passed. Goods were shipped to Winnipeg by steamer during high water in spring. The Canadian Pacific Railway built its transcontinental line through Winnipeg which arrived in 1881. Thousands of settlers came west from Europe and Eastern Canada to farm the land. Winnipeg business developed quickly to meet the needs of the growing western population. The Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange was founded in 1887 and within a few years Winnipeg was one of the world's fastest-growing grain centers. Winnipeg was also one of the largest rail centers in North America with twelve lines passing through the city by 1890 and there were over eighty wholesale businesses located in the District. Wholesale goods were shipped in from Lake Superior ports in the spring and grain was shipped out from Winnipeg to the Lakehead in the fall. The Exchange represented Canada throughout the world and it largely financed Winnipeg's growth. Together with a strong world economy supported by an increase in gold reserves, the Exchange attracted many British and Eastern Canadian banks, trust, insurance and mortgage companies to the District to do business.
Download or read book Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Book 7 in Colour Photos written by Barbara Raue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After European contact, the Assiniboine, Western Cree, Ojibwa and Sioux Indians all considered The Forks as their own territory. The Indian disputes and the fur trade rivalries made fortification necessary for occupation. 1730-1760 - The fur trade brought the French into the region. Their only attempt at a permanent settlement near The Forks was Fort Rouge built in 1738. The Forks continued to serve as a rendezvous and distribution point for the fur trade but the site was only moderately important compared to other fur trade places in the West. 1810 - The North West Company of Traders out of Montreal built Fort Gibraltar. 1813 - The Hudson's Bay Company formalized their competition by building Fort Douglas. It also served as protection for the Selkirk Colony which arrived in 1812. The fort was destroyed by the Nor'westers and their Metis allies in 1815 and rebuilt in 1816. 1816 - Fort Gibraltar was dismantled and burned by Governor Semple just prior to his death in the Seven Oaks Massacre. It was rebuilt in 1817. 1813-1819 - The Hudson's Bay Company built at least three trading posts at The Forks including Fidler's Fort. 1821 - The amalgamation between the Nor'westers and the Hudson's Bay Company ended the time of conflict. The focus of trade returned to Fort Gibraltar which was renamed Fort Garry. 1824 - Fort Douglas remained the residence of the Governor until 1824 when it was moved alongside Fort Garry. 1826 - Both forts were seriously damaged by the flood and were abandoned. 1831 - Lower Fort Garry was built twenty miles north of The Forks. 1834 - Work started at Upper Fort Garry which was the last fort to be constructed at The Forks. By the early 1850s Upper Fort Garry was at its peak of activity. York boat brigades arrived and departed, trade goods were produced and sold, and around it the settlement grew. To meet the increased demands on the facilities, in 1853 the walls of the fort were extended north to enclose the site of two large stone warehouses. Unlike the original walls which were made entirely of stone, the northern extension was of large oak timbers. Despite the Upper Fort's expanding role as a major transhipment center, the Hudson's Bay Company's jurisdiction in Rupert's Land increasingly came under attack. By the 1860s within the settlement itself, the small 'Canadian Party' became a vocal supporter of annexation to Canada. Meanwhile the Metis feared an influx of Protestant, English speaking Canadians if they were legally and politically absorbed by Canada. In October 1869 the Metis organized a "National Committee" led by Louis Riel and John Bruce. A month later the Metis seized Upper Fort Garry without a shot being fired. From the transformed mess house, Louis Riel led his provisional government and negotiated with the Canadian government. Riel and his followers remained in occupation of Fort Garry for the duration of the winter and well into the summer of 1870. Although forced to flee upon the arrival of the Wolseley expedition in August 1870, Louis Riel and his supporters had laid the groundwork for the admission of the new province of Manitoba into the Canadian Confederation. A large bend in the Assiniboine River creates the relatively isolated residential district of Armstrong's Point which was developed as a suburban haven for well-to-do families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The land was granted by the Hudson's Bay Company to Joseph Hill, who came to Red River in 1849 at the head of a group of pensioners. The first home was built on what is now East Gate in about 1882. Between that year and 1920 most of the large, stately homes that give the district its distinctive atmosphere were built.
Download or read book Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Book 4 in Colour Photos written by Barbara Raue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winnipeg sits in the south of the province of Manitoba at the confluence of the Assiniboine River and the Red River. The city sits amidst a vast flatland surrounded by hundreds of parks and lakes. Lake Winnipeg is one of the largest lakes in the world. The province is bordered by Ontario on the East and by Saskatchewan on the West. Winnipeg is the capital city of the Canadian province of Manitoba; it has survived battles, uprisings and floods. Winnipeg's downtown areas are centered on Portage Avenue and Main Street, bounded by Balmoral and Colony Streets, on the west and Logan Avenue, and Princess Street on the north. The Assiniboine River runs along the south and the Red River on the east. The area known as "muddy waters" or Winipek to the Algonquin was populated by North American Native tribes long before Europeans set foot on the land. The natives used the land for basic survival by fishing and hunting, agriculture, tool making and trading. When Europeans arrived, French and British settlers set up trading posts and fought to defend their interests. The union of Europeans and the local natives resulted in mixed race offspring known as the Métis. The role of the Métis as interpreters and mediators was fundamental for the development of the colony. The Métis and the British were in competition over the trade. When all uprisings were eventually subdued and disputes were settled, Manitoba became a province in the three-year old Canadian Confederation. Winnipeg grew rapidly when the Canadian Pacific Railway was built and by 1911 it was the third-largest in the country. Over the years Winnipeg's economy has had to face several challenges, the 1980s recession and the impending threat of flooding from the Red River and yet it has managed to maintain a strong economy.
Download or read book Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Book 2 in Colour Photos written by Barbara Raue and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Exchange District is in downtown Winnipeg just north of Portage and Main. It derives its name from the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, the center of the grain exchange in Canada. The Exchange District is the historic center of commerce in Western Canada. The District developed from the banks of the Red River at the foot of Bannatyne and Dermot Avenues. Most commercial traffic came along the Red River from St. Paul, Minnesota where the nearest rail line passed. Goods were shipped to Winnipeg by steamer during high water in spring. The Canadian Pacific Railway built its transcontinental line through Winnipeg which arrived in 1881. Thousands of settlers came west from Europe and Eastern Canada to farm the land. Winnipeg business developed quickly to meet the needs of the growing western population. The Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange was founded in 1887 and within a few years Winnipeg was one of the world's fastest-growing grain centers. Winnipeg was also one of the largest rail centers in North America with twelve lines passing through the city by 1890 and there were over eighty wholesale businesses located in the District. Wholesale goods were shipped in from Lake Superior ports in the spring and grain was shipped out from Winnipeg to the Lakehead in the fall. The Exchange represented Canada throughout the world and it largely financed Winnipeg's growth. Together with a strong world economy supported by an increase in gold reserves, the Exchange attracted many British and Eastern Canadian banks, trust, insurance and mortgage companies to the District to do business.
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Download or read book The Art of Wood Inlay written by George Stevens and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inlay is a wonderful way to create flowers, scenes, figures, and other intricate and colorful designs on wood objects--and a great opportunity to work with small quantities of rare and costly woods (also precious metals, leather, mother-of-pearl, and other materials). Today, since veneers and marquetry have come to substitute for inlay, this book helps to carry on the tradition of an almost forgotten art, and shows modern craftspeople how to use it to make plain objects special. Through detailed instructions, diagrams, and photographs, every step in the inlay process unfolds, including a special section on finishing. The spectacular projects feature everything from a pretty floral tray to Christmas ornaments, from a bookstand to a set of nested bowls--even jewelry!
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Download or read book Culinary Landmarks written by Elizabeth Driver and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culinary Landmarks is a definitive history and bibliography of Canadian cookbooks from the beginning, when La cuisinière bourgeoise was published in Quebec City in 1825, to the mid-twentieth century. Over the course of more than ten years Elizabeth Driver researched every cookbook published within the borders of present-day Canada, whether a locally authored text or a Canadian edition of a foreign work. Every type of recipe collection is included, from trade publishers' bestsellers and advertising cookbooks, to home economics textbooks and fund-raisers from church women's groups. The entries for over 2,200 individual titles are arranged chronologically by their province or territory of publication, revealing cooking and dining customs in each part of the country over 125 years. Full bibliographical descriptions of first and subsequent editions are augmented by author biographies and corporate histories of the food producers and kitchen-equipment manufacturers, who often published the books. Driver's excellent general introduction sets out the evolution of the cookbook genre in Canada, while brief introductions for each province identify regional differences in developments and trends. Four indexes and a 'Chronology of Canadian Cookbook History' provide other points of access to the wealth of material in this impressive reference book.
Download or read book Rural Life written by James P. Giffen and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1940s, the Manitoba Royal Commission on Adult Education investigated directions for the modernization of the province in the post-war era of change. It was charged particularly with looking at rural Manitoba’s cultural, educational, and leadership opportunities in the wake of new technologies, dwindling populations, and altered political and social affiliations. The commission engaged Jim Giffen, then a young sociologist from the University of Toronto, to undertake a detailed field study of three rural Manitoba towns in this context.Giffen’s extensive study examined the towns of Carman, Elgin, and Rossburn, all significantly different in terms of their ethnic makeup and level of political and organizational sophistication. He remained in the province for a year and a half, at the end of which his report, an analysis of “education for leadership,” was considered “too revealing” for public release. It remained in the Ontario Legislative Library until it was retrieved, 50 years later, by well-known historian Gerald Friesen, who has written an extensive postscript to the report.As a snapshot of rural agricultural life in prairie Canada at a time of great change, the study is invaluable. Despite the differences in the three towns, they retain some common characteristics that define a particular socio-cultural view of the larger world. Giffen looks at characteristics such as leadership in the community, ethnic differences, hierarchy of roles, participation in organizations, and aims and activities of young people. Friesen’s postscript provides a wider context to this study, and an assessment of what these differences and commonalities meant to the province.
