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On the afternoon of September 20th 1954
9/20/2010 at 8:05 AM
Radio Station CKX first “Sod turning ceremony” took place.
In the following evening city council met to discuss city-planning regulations.
Alderman Burneski asserted: “If the Board disapproves of our actions we have the right to over-ride them … I can’t see the area south of Number One Highway as anything but commercial.”
Mayor Creighton said, “We should have asked … before selling the land and granting options to others.”
Alderman Veale sighed: “Our whole zoning bylaw needs revamping.”
Council decided to refer the matter to town planning consultant Mr. Eric W. Thrift for a review of the Zonal Scheme.
Some time later, after Mr. Thrift had considered the situation he stated that the land transferred to Western Manitoba Broadcasters Limited was an “outright sale.”
It was his opinion that the wisdom of permitting further commercial or industrial expansion would devalue the city’s best potential home building region.
Alderman Boreskie foresaw “tremendous developments” and averred: “We can’t confine the business section to Rosser Avenue as merchants want it, but must prepare outlying areas”.
Note: It is my belief that in 1954 what we know today, as Highway A1 was then the Trans Canada Highway.
Source: Brandon a City by G. F. Barker