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Manitoba Legislative Building: Fossils, Secrets and the Golden Boy
There’s a room in Winnipeg where a whisper comes back louder than a shout. It’s a round chamber beneath the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building, and at its centre, set into the floor, sits an eight-pointed star of black marble — the Pool of the Black Star. Stand on it, speak softly, and your…
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Duff’s Ditch: The Joke That Saved Winnipeg (Red River Floodway)
They laughed at it for years. They called it Duff’s Folly, and said it would be about as useful as building the pyramids — a giant, expensive monument that would never protect a single home. The plan sounded crazy: dig Winnipeg a second river, just in case. Decades later, that joke became the only thing…
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The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: The Six Weeks a City Shut Down
On the morning of May 15, 1919, an entire city clocked out — and stayed out for six weeks. Winnipeg was one of the biggest cities in Canada, a booming railway hub on the Prairies. But that spring, more than thirty thousand of its workers walked off the job together: factory hands, firefighters, postal clerks,…