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Manitoba's urban history by the day from West End Dumplings
May 27, 1882 - The Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company was incorporated. May 27, 1919 - In Winnipeg General Strike news .
May 27 / 28, 1928 - The Winnipeg Flying Club officially opened its airfield in the R.M. of St. James. It was named Stevenson Aerodrome after Captain Fred J. Stevenson , a decorated war pilot and pioneer bush pilot in Manitoba. It was the forerunner to what is now the Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport .
From Mowat and Beyond | Exploring ancestry from Manitoba and beyond.