Manitoba 150
Guy Hansen, Public Relations Chair
T
he province of Manitoba joined
in memory of the 1919 Winnipeg
Confederation on May 12,
General Strike.
1870, with the passing of the
We did the same in the Labor Day
Manitoba Act.
Parade, again with MTS, and we
Our name, Manitoba, is from the
were there at the Climate Change
Ojibwe word manidoobaa or the Cree
rally. On that day, my wife, Faye, and
manitou-wapow, or perhaps other
I carried our flag. (Ray Job, the PR
similar sounding words from other
man for MTS, took the photo. That’s
First Nations groups who lived here.
probably why it is so crisp and clear.)
Each of these words have some
You, too, can carry this flag, our
relationship with our word “water.”
colors. Check our website for our
L-R: James Bedford, President of Manitoba
Teachers Society, Lloyd Thomas, earlier
They identify the Narrows of Lake
policy on borrowing it, RTAM will
an
electronics
teacher;
Guy
Hansen,
Faye
Winnipeg, or they are used in the
supply it to you. So, hopefully,
Hansen
more general phrase “ water of the
we will be visible at a number of
prairie.” These, and other similar
country fairs next summer.
ancient words help remind us of the long, long past
Check out the e-site Manitoba 150. It’s interesting, and
of this place, our province.
more events are being announced as we enter our 150th year.
Next year, 2020, Manitoba will formally be 150
The next announcement is to be December 12, 150
years old.
years and 150 days from the initial signing date of
And we, RTAM, will try to celebrate this birthday.
May 12, 1870.
The Public Relations Committee started with a small
Maybe you want to initiate an event locally. Let
preparatory role as it walked with the MTS contingent
us know. Go for it.
In Memoriam
April 2019
Rita M. Fisher, Qualicum Beach, BC
June 2019
Gail Marie-Anne Cochrane, Portage la Prairie, MB
July 2019
Aubrey A. Asper, Winnipeg, MB
Marie A. Ayotte, Winnipeg, MB
Bernice R. Blakeman, Winnipeg, MB
Ronald Bruce Bodie, East St. Paul. MB
John Albines Gray, Winnipeg, MB
Jack Kaplan, Winnipeg, MB
Sophie Kominetsky, Saskatoon, SK
Robert Denis Lovatt, Winnipeg, MB
Richard Charles Pugh, Vancouver, BC
Margaret H. Putnam, Winnipeg, MB
Marion K. Stevens, Winnipeg, MB
Irene Olga Stevenson, St. Andrews, MB
Gwendolyn Doreen Streich, Clandeboye, MB
August 2019 September 2019
Frances-Mary Brown, Winnipeg, MB
Arthur T. Bryant, Winnipeg, MB
Cecil Edmund Grant, Winnipeg, MB
Nestor Gylywoychuk, Winnipeg, MB
Katherine Elizabeth Kennedy, East Selkirk, MB
Jeannette Rollande Martin, Winnipeg, MB
Olga A. Nahirniak, Winnipeg, MB
Hildegard Sen, Winnipeg, MB
Bruce Howard Silversides, Winnipeg, MB
John Ross Skabar, Winnipeg, MB
Archie Stone, Winnipeg, MB
L.J. Maxwell Taylor, Qualicum Beach, BC
L. Jean Thiessen, Winnipeg, MB
S. Jesmondine Thompson, Whitehorse, YT
Mary Veenhuyzen, Winnipeg, MB
Phyllis M. Wolfe, Brandon, MB Mark William Bishop, Winnipeg, MB
Kathleen Blanche De Pape, St. Claude, MB
Sherry Louise Evans, Winnipeg, MB
Francis Gerard Fontaine, Winnipeg, MB
Walter O. Fuller, Dauphin, MB
Luc Albert Gamache, MacGregor, MB
Ronald C. Kirbyson, Winnipeg, MB
Harley Alvin McKellar, Sanford, MB
James Richard Partridge, Winnipeg, MB
Deo Harry Poonwassie, Winnipeg, MB
Edward P. Reimer, Steinbach, MB
Donald J. Soutter, Winnipeg, MB
Maureen Karen Wiebe, Portage la Prairie, MB
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