Winnipeg Free Press: 150 Years
Sources
Murray Donnelly, Dafoe of the Free Press. Toronto: Macmillan, 1968.
Christopher Dafoe, In Search of Canada. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2014.
James H. Gray, Troublemaker. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978.
Manitoba Historical Society articles on the Free Press and on William Fisher Luxton
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, “Sir Clifford Sifton.”
Winnipeg Free Press, “History.”
The Winnipeg Tribune, “Why W.F. Luxton has been expelled from the Free Press and despoiled of the fruits of his life’s work“
And the Tribune and Free Press archives, obviously!
The Luxton expulsion! [microform] : why W.F. Luxton has been expelled from the Free Press and despoiled of the fruits of his life’s work (Via Peels Prairie Provinces)
Manitoba Historical Society, John Wesley Dafoe
Cora Hind
The Canadian Encloypedia, Ella Cora Hind.
Madeline Day
Eva Wasney, “Domestic Diva”, Winnipeg Free Press.
Frank Morris:
Frank Morriss’s articles in the Winnipeg Free Press between 1936-1959 were used for this section.
We don our birthday hats and bust out the noisemakers to discuss some highlights of the Winnipeg Free Press’s past 150 years.
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