Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post at remote and tiny Wabowden, Manitoba, the Hudson's Bay Company had a new fur-trade clerk. Rupert Brace Tinling, 21-year-old Royal Canadian Navy veteran from Winnipeg, had signed for a three-year apprenticeship. He liked fishing and hunting; he would have ample opportunity for both. Besides, his mother said, "he'd rather wear a parka and old trousers than the best dress suit...
...trading posts that stretch from Labrador to the Mackenzie basin, the company needed about 60 more men with Rupert Tinling's tastes. Last week, in Dominion newspapers, the company advertised for them. At Winnipeg 300 young Canadians and Newfoundlanders quickly filed applications for places with the "Company of Adventurers" that since 1670 has been "trading into Hudson's Bay." Accepted applicants will follow the sort of life already begun for young Tinling, who is destined for a post on Baffin Island, possibly Arctic Bay at the northern...
...Veteran Winnipeg Free Press Reporter Frank Williams stumbled into a printing-shop holdup. He stared down a revolver barrel, was frisked of $25.50, then trussed up. Always the reporter, Williams inquisitively asked one of his captors...
Born. To Deanna Durbin, 23, thrush from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who flew to Hollywood stardom on wings of song; and Felix Jackson, 43, producer who helped guide her flight: their first child, a daughter. Name: Jessica Louise. Weight...
...Toronto University, 60 students staged a sophomorish sitdown in protest against having to travel 50 miles a day to & from applied-science classes at Ajax, Ontario. The strike lasted one hour. In Winnipeg, 124 Tribune and Free Press printers who had struck last November (TIME, Dec. 3) and had subsequently been fired for "absence from work," claimed they were still on strike. But the two papers had long since trained new printers and were publishing regularly...