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Brian K. Darragh

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http://www.streetcarsofwinnipegbook.com

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My parents immigrated from Northern Ireland to Winnipeg in the summer of 1927. I was born in November 1928. I was an only child. It was the start of the depression years and jobs were scarce. As a 4 year old I remember riding the streetcar downtown with my mother. If I behaved while she shopped at Eaton’s she would take me to the Woolworths store and buy me a 10 cent toy! By 1933 my father couldn’t obtain any kind of work in the city, so we moved to a vacant farm about 100 miles west of Winnipeg in the district of Keyes. My parents, city slickers, knew absolutely nothing about farming but we survived. I attended a one room school. One teacher taught all the subjects from grade one to 10. There were never more than 20 to 25 kids in the whole ...more

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The Streetcars of Winnipeg - Our Forgotten Heritage: Out of Sight - Out of Mind

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I had the idea to write about the history of streetcars after I realized what an impact they had on the growth of the city. Areas of the city expanded and developed much faster because of the link to a service that could move large numbers of people and do it fairly quickly. Businesses flourished because of the larger number of people that could visit and support them.
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