The Ballad of Ginger Snooks

Sources

Literally countless Winnipeg Tribune and Winnipeg Free Press Files (a truly embarrassing amount).

Robert “Ginger” Snook, Manitoba Historical Society.

Richard “Dick” Burden, Manitoba Historical Society.

Robert Andrew Bonnar, Manitoba Historical Society.

Ginger Snook, Winnipeg Real Estate News (Bruce Cherney). Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

The Winnipeg Liar, Winnipeg Real Estate News (Bruce Cherney). Part 1 | Part 2

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winnipeg Central Dump / Saskatchewan Avenue Dump / “Garbage Hill” / Westview Park (1 Midland Street, Winnipeg), Manitoba Historical Society.

George H. Ham, Reminiscences of a raconteur, between the ’40s and the ’20s (1921).

James Gray, Booze: The Impact of Whiskey on the Prairie West (1971)

James Gray, The Boy From Winnipeg (1970).

Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell, When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (2010).

It’s finally time for Sabrina to talk about her favourite garbageman: Robert “Ginger” Snook. From city scavenger, eccentric electoral candidate, and absurd local celebrity, Ginger Snook was everywhere in the early 1900s and was remembered (not fondly, but remembered) by many who knew him.

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