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Transcona Grain Elevator

The Transcona Grain Elevator in Winnipeg was opened on October 18th, 1913. Within hours of receiving its first load of grain it developed a 28.53 degree list. Source. Watch a video about it.

The First Winnipeg/Ottawa Hockey Games

The Coming Winnipeg Hockeyists

    The Ottawa hockey team have received a letter from Winnipeg saying that the picked Winnipeg team which is coming east expects to leave Winnipeg Feb 6, and wants to play the Ottawas here on Monday, Feb 13, and the Rebels on Tuesday 14.

    The scheme so far arranged embraces matches with the following clubs:

    New Fort Granites, Victorias, Torontos and Osgoode Hall, all of Toronto; Queen's College of Kingston; Ottawas and Rebels of Ottawa; Victorias of Montreal; and Quebec of Quebec. Several other matches will likely also be arranged for in Western Ontario. The Winnipegs will bring ten men. They think they have a first class lot, and say they will only play their weaker men against the teams they may meet which are not supposed to be in the first class. Some of their players' names, such as Ashe, formerly of Quebec and the Montreal Vics, are those of men who were really among the best down this way.

Ottawa Journal, Tuesday, January 31, 1893.

WINNIPEGGERS VANQUISHED

They Bow Before Ottawa's Crack Hockey Team

    The Winnipeg hockey team can play good hockey. This they demonstrated at the Rideau Rink last night. But they do not know all about the game yet, a fact which they discovered at the same time.

    The match last evening between them and the Ottawas resulted, as expected by all but the men from the Prairie City, who seemed confident of winning before the match, in favor of the Ottawas. The play was closer than anticipated, however, and the score, four goals to one, about tells the tale. The men from the Manitoba capital are exceptionally fast skaters and good stick handlers and understood the game pretty well, but they lack in team play, and it was in this the Ottawas showed their superiority.

    Mr. P. D. Ross was referee, Messrs. P. D. Bentley and C. H. Beckett umpires, and the Winnipeg team -- Stowe, Higginbotham, Anderson, Armitage, Girdlesleeve, Howard and McDonald.

    Howard showed himself to be one of the fastest forwards playing the game.

    Morel and Russell played their positions to perfection, while Weld. Young showed his lacrosse training on how to stop a home player to advantage.

    At 4:30 this afternoon the visitors play the Rebels. The team of the latter will be Lay, Jenkins, Grant, Kilcoursie, Ross, Watters and Adamson.

Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, February 14, 1893.

The Rebels Played Well

    The hockey match between the Winnipeggers and the Rebels, yesterday afternoon, resulted in favor of the visitors by a score of 3 goals to 1. The Rebels put up a good game.

Ottawa Citizen, Wednesday, February 15, 1893.

Jets Sens

Source.

    Ottawa versus Winnipeg in Stanley Cup challenge games:

1903/12/30    Ottawa HC 9 - 1 Winnipeg Rowing Club

1904/1/1        Ottawa HC 2 - 6 Winnipeg Rowing Club

1904/1/4        Ottawa HC 2 - 0 Winnipeg Rowing Club

    Ottawa Nationals versus Winnipeg Jets (I):

1972/11/9      Ottawa 1 - 4 Winnipeg        regular season

1972/12/1      Winnipeg 3 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

1973/1/28      Ottawa 4 - 5 Winnipeg        regular season

1973/3/6        Ottawa 5 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

1973/3/16      Winnipeg 1 - 6 Ottawa        regular season

1973/3/18      Winnipeg 2 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

    Ottawa Civics versus Winnipeg Jets (I):

1976/1/11      Winnipeg 6 - 5 Ottawa        regular season

    Ottawa Senators (II) versus Winnipeg Jets (I):

1993/2/1        Ottawa 4 - 4 Winnipeg         regular season

1993/2/22      Winnipeg 6 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

1993/2/23      Ottawa 2 - 8 Winnipeg        regular season

1993/11/5      Winnipeg 6 - 7 Ottawa        regular season

1994/1/8        Ottawa 2 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

1994/3/4        Ottawa 1 - 6 Winnipeg        regular season

1995/11/22    Ottawa 1 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

1996/2/8        Winnipeg 6 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

    Ottawa Senators (II) versus Winnipeg Jets (II):

2011/9/26      Ottawa 1 - 3 Winnipeg        exhibition

2011/10/20    Ottawa 4 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

2011/11/29    Winnipeg 4 - 6 Ottawa        regular season

2012/1/16      Ottawa 0 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2012/3/26      Winnipeg 4 - 6 Ottawa        regular season

2013/1/19      Winnipeg 1 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

2013/2/9        Ottawa 0 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

2013/3/17      Ottawa 4 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

2013/9/15      Winnipeg 1 - 3 Ottawa        exhibition

2014/1/2        Ottawa 4 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

2014/3/8        Winnipeg 3 - 5 Ottawa        regular season

2014/9/30      Winnipeg 2 - 1 Ottawa        exhibition

2014/11/8      Ottawa 1 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2015/3/4        Winnipeg 1 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

2015/9/29      Winnipeg 4 - 3 Ottawa        exhibition

2015/11/5      Ottawa 3 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2016/3/30      Winnipeg 1 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2016/10/3      Winnipeg 4 - 2 Ottawa        exhibition

2017/2/19      Ottawa 2 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

2017/4/1        Winnipeg 4 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2017/9/27      Winnipeg 5 - 3 Ottawa        exhibition

2017/12/3      Winnipeg 5 - 0 Ottawa        regular season

2018/4/2        Ottawa 5 - 6 Winnipeg        regular season

2019/2/9        Ottawa 5 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2019/2/16      Winnipeg 3 - 4 Ottawa        regular season

2020/2/8        Winnipeg 5 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2020/2/20      Ottawa 1 - 5 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/1/19      Ottawa 3 - 4 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/1/21      Ottawa 1 - 4 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/1/23      Winnipeg 6 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

2021/2/11      Winnipeg 5 - 1 Ottawa        regular season

2021/2/13      Winnipeg 1 - 2 Ottawa        regular season

2021/4/5        Winnipeg 4 - 3 Ottawa        regular season

2021/4/12      Ottawa 4 - 2 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/4/14      Ottawa 2 - 3 Winnipeg        regular season

2021/5/3        Ottawa 2 - 1 Winnipeg        regular season

[2021/5/8        Winnipeg 2 - 4 Ottawa        regular season]

(Home team first.)

Skating in Winnipeg, 1913

Source.

Lindsay Somers Goes Skating

Lindsay's skating at The Forks in Winnipeg. Source.

Miss Winnipeg 1923

Source. Photo by L. B. Foote (1873-1957).

Winnipeg General Strike

The Winnipeg General Strike began on this day in 1919. As in Barcelona, the first target was the tram cars. Source.

The Manitobans Reached Space in 1959

Bristol Aerospace of Winnipeg have been constructing versions of their reliable Black Brant rocket since 1959 and are presently up to the Black Brant XII.  NASA fires off about a dozen of the suborbital sounding rockets per year from Wallops Island, White Sands, Poker Flats in Alaska, or Andoya in northern Norway, oftentimes with the Black Brant as part of a three or four stage launch vehicle.  In September 1959 the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment began to test the Black Brant at Fort Churchill, Manitoba, on Hudson Bay, and quickly exceeded an altitude of 100 km, the unofficial edge of space.  Hence the shock in 1989 when the headquarters of the new Canadian Space Agency was placed in Montreal.