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External view of the Kamloops Indian Residential School where 751 unmarked graves were discovered. Photograph courtesy of Archives Deschâtelets-NDC, Richelieu.
Wayne Douglas Weedon
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used to live in Holman Island, now known as Ulukhaktok, a hamlet in the Canadian Arctic. In the spring of 1966, on a daily basis, aeroplanes were landing at Holman Island and other settlements, bringing students from residential schools who had never returned home in the ten to twelve years they had been away at school. Also in 1966, Agnes Carpenter, a former residential school student living in Sachs Harbour, came to Holman Island. She was travelling throughout the Arctic to solicit affidavits from residential school survivors.
For several years she had been taking these affidavits to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and to various newspapers, including the Vancouver Sun and the Edmonton Journal, as well as to Ed Ogle from Time (Canada), and to two well-known writers, Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat. Everyone displayed sympathy and gave promises of helping her to have her accusations published; but somehow, none of her stories ever appeared in print. Agnes asked me, “Have you read the fairy-tales that publishers are passing off as factual? The old people are convulsed with laughter when I read to them some of these outlandish stories about us and our way of living.” u 4 ‘Let the people know’
Let us look at a little bit of the history of Roseberry Street
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o celebrate the 100th Anniversary of St. James (starting just west of St. James Street to Sturgeon Road) breaking away from Assiniboia to form their own municipality, I have two Centennial projects. I am doing street profiles. This column features Roseberry Street. I am also asking for public input in compiling a list of 100 Great St. James Citizens. Please send me between 1 and 100 nominations. I acknowledge that any list of 100 great St. James’s citizens will be far too short. The people on the list will not be ranked. Contact me at fredmorris@ hotmail.com or 207-1061 Sargent Avenue R3E 3M6.
Fred Morris
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he Mural on the northeast corner commemorating the former dance hall at 1845 Portage says it all: “Welcome to St. James Village”.
A few of the residents Fred Miguez started in the family refuse business at the age of 14. After serving in World War 2, Fred returned to the family business which he eventually took over and renamed Fred Miguez Trucking. In the early 1960s, Fred had the contract to clear snow at the new open-air Polo Park Center. In 2019, Fred celebrated his 100th birthday. Bob King lived on Roseberry during his adolescent years. Between 1958 and 1965, Bob won 13 times before losing on the CBWT Five Pin Bowling Show. In 1962, Bob King became and remains the youngest person to win the Canadian Five Pin Open Bowling Singles. The Winnipeg Sportswriters and Sportscasters association named Bob the Manitoba Male Athlete of the year. In 1963, the City of St. James presented Bob with the Order of Merit. Between 1962 and u 6 ‘Roseberry Street’
Kangiqsualujjuaq at dawn in March.
Dorothy Dobbie
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ccording to Wikipedia, The Right Hon. Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, has a connection to Manitoba. Her father, Bob May, the manager of the local Hudson’s Bay Company store in the 1950s, was from this province, while her mother, Nancy, was an Inuk from Northern Quebec. Mary was born Mary Jeannie May, in Kangsiqsualuijjuak, a very small village at the mouth of the George River. Her Dad was the first white store em- The Right Hon. ployee to marry an Inuk, but Mary Simon. Mary was raised in the traditional manner including sewing and wearing traditional Inuit clothing and traveling by dogsled. She went to school in Kuujjuak and then to high school in Colorado. Among her varied career pursuits, she taught Inuktitut at McGill University, worked for CBC Northern Services, was involved with the Inuit Tapirisat and served as Ambassador to Denmark and later as Circumpolar Ambassador. She was also involved in the constitutional discussion of the 1980s and 90s, including discussions leading up to the Charlottetown Accord. She is currently married to journalist Whit Fraser. Her Inuktitut name is Ningiukudluk and at her swearing in ceremony on July 26, 2021, she joked to the Prime Minister that this meant “Bossy Little Old Woman”! We wish her all the best and hope she visits our province very soon. -ED
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