MHS Archives: This Old Stone

A collection of weekly columns by Manitoba historians Dale Brawn and Charles Brawn, originally published in the Brandon Sun. They are reprinted here with permission of the Sun publisher.

Column

Subject

1

Frederick Philip Grove

2

Walter Gordon

3

Lewis Hickman

4

Charles Arkoll Boulton

5

Lloyd Shield

6

Earle ‘The Strangler’ Nelson

7

Louis Robidoux

8

Olympia Restaurant Fire

9

Alexander Harvest Fire

10

Asylum for the Insane Cemetery

11

Souris City

12

George Robson Coldwell

13

Samuel Larcombe

14

Harry Green

15

Stanley William McInnis

16

Rossburn Mass Grave

17

Thomas Prince

18

Eleanor Eliza Cripps

19

Sir Clifford Sifton

20

Paul Harvey Wolos

21

Francis Evans Cornish

22

Adam ‘The Fabulous Scot’ McKenzie

23

Jack Krafchenko

30

Francis Eugene Chaplin

31

Lord Gordon Gordon

32

One-Arrow

33

George Edwin Tackaberry

34

Robert Stirton Thornton

35

William Curle

36

John Andrew Davidson

37

Paul Gerhardt Hiebert

38

William Webb

39

Harry William Cater

40

William Henry Sowden

41

Dr. Frederick Valentine Bird

42

Manitoba Power Commission

43

Brandon Train Wreck

44

Charles Sankey

45

Earl ‘Sandy’ Graham

46

Doig, Rankin Fire

47

Archibald L. McMillan

48

Louis Slotin

49

Lawrence Lees

50

Lawrence Gowland

51

James Freer

52

Hugh Marshall Dyer

53

James McGrath

54

Abraham Klenman

55

Benito Murders

56

John Machray

57

Thomas Mayne Daly

58

Triple Hanging

59

Samuel Lawrence Bedson

60

Robert Harvey ‘Bulldog’ Brown

61

Sitar Family Massacre

62

Harry Bosnell

63

Tennie Maloney

64

Samuel Benfield Steele

65

David Howard Harrison

66

Albert Victor Westgate

67

Remembrance Day 2007

68

James Duncan McGregor

69

Joseph Michaud

70

Hugh John Macdonald

71

Francis Marion Beynon

72

Nathaniel Francis Hagel

73

Jessie Turnbull (McEwen)

74

Heinrich J. Toews

75

Stuartburn Family Massacre

76

Tobias Crawford Norris

77

John Philpot Curran

78

Joe Poplar

79

John Russell Foster

80

British CATP - MacGregor

81

John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer

82

John William Sandison

83

Knights of Manitoba

84

Not All Killers Hanged

85

Barry Levins - Part One

86

Barry Levins - Part Two

87

Thomas Greenway

88

Samuel James McKee

89

Westman Air Accidents

90

Empress of Ireland

91

Edmund Burke Wood

92

Bagot Airmail Crash

93

Unsolved Murders

94

Manitoba Drownings

95

Westman Accidents

96

Winnipeg Toilers

97

Marie-Anne Gaboury

98

Women Who Murder

99

Kathleen Rice

100

Confessions (Pawluk & Kooting)

101

Thomas Fletcher

102

Dr. James Wilford Good

103

Group of Seven

104

Walter ‘Turk’ Broda

105

St. Boniface College Fire

106

The Mortons of Gladstone

107

Baldwin Jonasson

108

German Prisoners of War

109

Western Manitoba’s Medical Stewarts

110

Lawrence Sylvester Deacon - part 1

111

Lawrence Sylvester Deacon - part 2

112

Lawrence Sylvester Deacon - part 3

113

Father Alfred Quirion

114

The Other Mrs. McClung

115

Brandon’s First Traffic Fatality

116

Frank Leith Skinner

117

Remembrance Day - Part I

118

Remembrance Day - Part II

119

Remembrance Day - Part III

120

Olive Elizabeth Bend Little

121

John Nestibo

123

Walter Gilbert Dinsdale

124

Donald Ewen Cameron

125

Hangmen of Manitoba - Part 1

126

Hangmen of Manitoba - Part 2

127

MacEwan - The Quintessential Westerner

Page revised: 22 June 2018