Nov 1-5 in Manitoba History
11/1/2007 at 4:50 PM
Nov 1, 1926 The Portage and Memorial Hudson's Bay opens
Nov. 4, 1995: The Bombers’ Reggie Slack sets a CFL record with 51 pass attempts in a playoff game. The Blue Bombers lose 36-21 to the Baltimore Stallions.
November 4,1907 Dr. Stanley McInnis dies in Brandon General Hospital.
President of the Manitoba Dental Association, first president of the Canadian Dental Association (1906), president of the Brandon Horticulture Society, MLA for Brandon for three terms and holding the portfolio of Minister of Education.
When he died, McInnis had spent only 8 years in Brandon. He was 42.
Nov. 4, 1910: One of Brandon’s largest fires as the then-named “Brandon Asylum for the Insane” burns to the ground. 700 patients would be led into the city and housed for two years in the Brandon Winter Fair building until the hospital is rebuilt. Only one person dies, of exposure, as patient who became disoriented and wandered into nearby fields.
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