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October 2, 1992  
The Edmonton Eskimos set a team record for most penalty yards in a game, getting penalized for 212 yards against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Edmonton won the game 45-25.  
 
October 3, 1981  
Bombers quarterback Dieter Brock sets a CFL regular season record for most pass completions in a single game – 41 in a win over the Ottawa Rough Riders. In 1993 Green Riders’ Kent Austin would tie the record..  
 
October 4 1989  
Opening of the Forks Market, Winnipeg  
 
October 5 1964  
Official opening of Winnipeg’s new "Civic Centre". To see them all:  
http://www.winnipeg.ca/Services/CityLife/HistoryOfWinnipeg/CityHall.stm  
 
October 5, 1899  
the Boissevain Recorder began publishing.  
 
October 6, 1899  
The Treherne Times began publishing.  
 
October 6,1971  
the first council election for the new City of Winnipeg “Unicity”  
 
October 6, 1942  
E. Cora Hind dies in Winnipeg. Born in Ontario, Hind was a lecturer and writer on the topic of agriculture, eventually becoming Canada's first female agricultural reporter and editor and member of the Manitoba Agriculture Hall of Fame. Also a leader of the suffragette and temperance movements in Manitoba. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-205-e.html  
http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/h_profiles/hist_hind.html  
 
October 8 to 9, 2002  
Queen Elizabeth the II and the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Winnipeg during her Golden Jubilee (50th) Anniversary celebrations. Part of her duties were to unveiled the restored Golden Boy.  
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2002/10/09/mb_queen021009.html  
 
October 8 1865  
Stanley William McInnis was born in Saint John NB. He would settle in Brandon after receiving his dentist’s degree and was president of the Manitoba Dental Association and then the first president of the Canadian Dental Association.  
 
Stanley would also be elected as MLA for Brandon for three terms.  
 
A considerable biography when you note that he died in 1907 at 42 years of age.  
 
Stanley Park on Princess Av in Brandon is named for him  
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/images/mcinnis_sw2.jpg  
 
OCTOBER 8th 1871  
Okay, not Manitoba, (but considering the rivalry that would develop between Winnipeg and Chicago over commodity markets, real estate values etc. I thought I would add this in) the Great Fire of Chicago broke out destroying about 17,450 buildings. About 250 people were killed and 90,000 were left homeless  
 
Oct. 11, 1904  
The Bulman Block at Main and Bannatyne burned to the ground. It also destroyed the first Ashdown’s store and the Woodbine Hotel. It was never rebuilt and has been a parking lot ever since. http://www.winnipegfiremuseum.ca/archives/archives04/1904ashdown.jpg  
 
October 11 1905  
Winnipeg’s first library, Carnegie Public Library (William Av), was officially opened by GG Earl Grey.  
 
It was named in honour of American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie who gave $75,000 for its construction. (He would also provide money for the St. John’s and Cornish branches as well.  
 
The building was Winnipeg’s main library until the Centennial opened in 77. Currently the building has a small satellite library and holds the City of Winnipeg Archives.  
 
Carnegie's massive portrait was restored and relocated to the Millennium Library.  
http://wpl.winnipeg.ca/library/images/andrewcarnegie1.jpg  
http://apollo.lib.umanitoba.ca:8080/WBImages/small/CLH-51.jpg  
 
October 11, 1875  
A group of nearly 300 Icelanders landed in Winnipeg. Their final stop will be shores of Lake Winnipeg. They would name their settlement Gimli after the home of the Gods in Norse mythology.  
 
Icelandic People in Manitoba http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/02/icelandicpeople.shtml  
 
October 12 1876  
First shipment of wheat exported from the Province of Manitoba (857 1/6 bushels at 85 cents per bushel). Exported by Higgins & Young of Winnipeg.  
 
October 9, 1877  
C.P.R. No. 1, the "Countess of Dufferin" arrives in Winnipeg. She was the first locomotive in Manitoba and would be put to work the very next day to help build Western Canada.  
 
Note: the Countess can still be seen at the Winnipeg railway museum at the Via Station http://www.wpgrailwaymuseum.com/loco_motives/countess/countess.htm