Even Losers Must Celebrate Upper Fort Garry

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HOW TO BE POOR LOSERS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE "RICH" ...It's been the shivering spring of our discontent. But the sun was shining and the temperature was summer-like at noon Monday when Premier Gary Doer stood in front of the Upper Fort Garry gate to make a surprise announcement that brought a warmth all its own.

The Friends of Upper Fort Garry -- a collection of the province's business and political elite who carried on a fundraising campaign to save the province's symbolic birthplace from being overshadowed by an apartment development -- had finally secured all the park property they'd dreamed of acquiring for the citizens of Manitoba.

Without their passion and persistence we wouldn't be planning a downtown provincial park on the land where the Hudson's Bay Co. once ruled most of northwestern North America and where the "Father of Manitoba," Louis Riel, declared a provisional government that led to the creation of Manitoba.

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Even Losers Must Celebrate Upper Fort Garry

HOW TO BE POOR LOSERS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE "RICH" ...It's been the shivering spring of our discontent. But the sun was shining and the temperature was summer-like at noon Monday when Pre...

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