Looking back - 1978: Viscount Centre Administrator returns from Banff

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Published on Wednesday, September 19, 2018

By Cassandra Wehrhahn

Neepawa Banner & Press

110 years ago,

Tuesday,

September 15, 1908

A party of 250 mechanics arrived from Great Britain to take the places of C.P.R. strikers.

In an engagement between French troops and Beraber tribesmen at Bondemb, the casualties numbered 3,000.

C.P.R. surveyors are said to be locating a line through the Pine pass in the Rocky Mountains, with a branch to Dunvegan.

During the first six months of 1908, Chinese immigrants paid $547,500 head tax to the Canadian customs officers at Vancouver.

100 years ago,

Friday,

September 13, 1918

The C.P.R. steamship Missanabie is reported “attacked” by a German submarine but there are no details.

It is estimated that there are 2,000,000 aliens of military age in the United States and it is planned to conscript half of them for overseas service.

A British steamship carrying United States soldiers to France was torpedoed by a German submarine off the British coast, but the ship was beached and all on board saved.

Candy manufacturers in Canada have used in the past eleven per cent of all the sugar consumed in Canada. This has been reduced to a maximum of 5 ½ per cent by the Canada Food Board, owing to the sugar situation.

90 years ago,

Friday,

September 14, 1928

The Spanish dictator has jailed 2,000 revolutionaries.

An airplane express service between Winnipeg and the larger cities of the prairie provinces began yesterday.

Vera Figner, the Russian Nihilist who plotted the assassination of Czar Alexander the Second and a number of other Royalist figures, is now writing her memoirs. This woman, one of the most remarkable in the entire history of Europe, spent 20 years in the dungeons of the fortress of Schlusselburg and 10 more in a penal colony in Siberia. But nothing could induce her to reveal the secrets of the Nihilists and she refused to talk about them even after she had been pardoned. It was in 1881 that she accomplished the Czar’s assassination.

80 years ago,

Tuesday,

September 13, 1938

France has 1,200,000 men under arms to meet eventualities in the Czecho-Nazi crisis.

Italy, siding with Germany, has advised Czechoslovakia to heed the autonomy demands of her Germanic minority.

Production of war planes in Canadian factories to speed up the British rearmament drive will get under way with minimum delay.

Hitler is now definite. He says that nothing less than annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudeten German area and its 3,500,000 inhabitants will satisfy him.

70 years ago,

Thursday,

September 16, 1948

Following an organization meeting in June, the Neepawa Business and Professional Women were presented with their Charter Wednesday evening at a meeting and banquet in the Masonic Temple. The officers; President, Miss A. Orton; recording secretary, Miss E. Ames; corresponding secretary, Miss M. Musgrove. Miss Ruth Faryon was named delegate to the BPWC convention at Regina in July.

60 years ago,

Friday,

September 12, 1958

The canoe routes which served the early fur traders as waterways of commerce are being marked for Canadian tourists by the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources.

Hon. Alvin Hamilton, Minister of Northern Affairs and National Resources has accepted the recommendations of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada that the historic canoe routes of the country be declared of national historic importance and that the markers be placed on certain routes.

50 years ago,

Friday,

September 13, 1968

Louise Card, immediate past president of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women, has been appointed chairman of the International Federation of Congress planning committee, the congress to be held in Edmonton in July, 1971.

Miss Card returned Sunday following a national convention held in Quebec City, which was attended by 400 delegates from across Canada. She was a delegate to the recent IFBPW Congress held in London, England, in August, and then toured Southern Ireland.

40 years ago,

Thursday,

September 14, 1978

Viscount Centre Administrator Marlene Siatecki recently returned from a very intensive management seminar, Banff, Alberta. The three-week seminar, Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, was the first ever in Canada, the only other in North America taking place at Harvard University. Mrs. Siatecki, the only rural community representative in a class of 30, she learned techniques on how to be a better manager, how to run an organization more smoothly and there was also discussion about union and labour relations. Mrs. Siatecki received a $1,500 scholarship for the course from three sources: $500 from Viscount Centre and the Holiday Festival Committee, $500 from Manitoba’s Department of Tourism, Recreation and Culture and $500 from the Banff Scholarship Fund, which receives assistance from the Canada Council organization.

30 years ago,

Monday,

September 12, 1988

Neepawa was in the top ten for “most total money raised” in support of the Terry Fox Run, ranking ninth with a total of $4,645.85.

20 years ago,

Monday,

September 14, 1998

Don Fowler, the national leader of the Elks of Canada will be in Neepawa on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1998.

Fowler will attend the regular meeting of the Neepawa Elks (Lodge 398) that night.