September 24 - 27 In Manitoba History
9/24/2007 at 6:18 PM
September 24 1811: An advance party of workmen for Lord Selkirk reach York Factory aboard the The Edward and Ann after having departed from Scotland two months before. The men are headed by Miles Macdonell. A chronology of Lord Selkirk’s achievements:
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/07/selkirkchronology.shtml
Sept 24 1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson in 9.79 seconds breaks his own world record to win the 100m Olympic gold medal.
September 25 1873 – The first recruitment drive for NWMP officers begins. Eventually 9 officers are hired under the command of Lt. Col Osborne Smith.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/history/highlights_e.htm
September 25, 1971 The current Winnipeg Art Gallery opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret.
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/CA/MB/WinnipegArtGallery.html
Construction pic:
http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/tribune/photos/WinnipegArtGallery1.jpg
September 25 1925: work begins on the Portage and Memorial HBC store. Construction pics:
http://www.virtual.heritagewinnipeg.com/gallery_comm.php enter “Bay” in the search engine box
September 26 1941, the first HMCS Brandon joins the Newfoundland Command leaving St. John's September 26 for her first convoy to the UK.
http://www.naval-museum.mb.ca/ships/brandon.htm
September 26 1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson stripped of the 100 m Olympic gold medal he won two days earlier.
September 26, 1898 Winnipeg's Isbister School cornerstone is laid by Joseph Carman, School Board Chairman. He commented "the walls that you see rising before you are an expression of the universal desire of our citizens to give their children who will succeed them such a training as will enable them to carry on worthily the work of nation building which their fathers have so well begun."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiansphotos/870564853/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiansphotos/870564907/in/photostream/
http://www.wsd1.org/waec/history2.htm
September 27, 1972 Clara Hughes, born in Winnipeg. She won two bronze medals in cycling at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games and a bronze in the 5000m speed skating event. This made Hughes the only Canadian and fourth ever athlete in Olympic history to win medals in both Winter and Summer Games.
http://www.clara-hughes.com/about-clara/