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Under regent old kub bakery park lanes My mom went there

You mentioned paul martin. I believe it is the same one as the one that lived on Kildare and Brewster St.he was a war veteran,also a deacon at st. Joseph the worker parish school on Brewster.

It's a shame there's no history to the Transcona News paper and his people related to it 😢

35:15 That appears to be a two-piece transposition, not "physically altered." Fantastic video!

I would like to hear this presentation. I am sorry, but I cannot stand listening to a string of sentences all of which begin with "UH." It just grates on me. So I am clicking off after 4 minutes.

Bravo! Excellent presentation and thanks for sharing and the very best of luck!

mr parrish as fine aman you would ever meet

Its interesting to see a couple of people that I went to school with

I’ve been feeling nostalgic watching a number of your 60s & other videos, I’m in Calgary. My family bought our first home on the 100 block of McMeans Avenue East in the fall of 1959, just before I was born. We moved from Transcona to Charleswood in 1975, I obtained my accounting degree at the University of Manitoba in 1982 and moved to Calgary the following fall, where I have been ever since. Thank you for your videos on the history of Transcona!

The train caboose on the flat deck may have been headed for the Old Oxford Heights Community Club between Day St. & Dowling just north of McMeans Avenue East, there was a similar caboose setup up around that time just west of the community hall building and just in front of the main rink along the back lane. It was a God send to have a place to warm up when the outdoor skating weather was frigid…. 🧊

I was raised in Transcona near the old Oxford Heights Community Club - my family bought our first home in north Transcona on the 100 block of McMeans Avenue East, I attended Margaret Underhill & Central Schools before Arthur Day Junior High just before the mid 70s. The principal of the junior high, Fred Algera, started a World of Work program in which I volunteered in the Transcona Museum while it was in the Roland Mitchener Arena building. He was ahead of his time with that initiative, it was a quiet work stint at the museum in ‘73 or ‘74 but a very good start for my future employment prospects…

beautiful is she gonna be steamed.

The failure was caused by the soil at ground level testing better than the soil in a very similar looking, but much lower capacity layer thirty feet down.

too much echo. can barely understand you.

I miss John & the resturant. Always could get a good ukranian meal & good conversation.

The fact they up righted it is amazing.

Solid presentation, thank you. The passion of the presenters made this enjoyable as well as informative.

Very interesting

The soils throughout much of the Red River Valley and the Winnipeg area are generally quite poor due to being the bottom of Lake Agassiz. You have to dig quite deep like 15-20 feet deep depending on where you are to get good firm soil. This is the reason why so many larger buildings and even houses are built with pilings beneath them.

Very educational, indeed. But the speaker became very annoying when every 3rd or 4th word was "Um".

Such a beautiful steam locomotive ❤️🇨🇦🚂

An almost identical collapse June 1955 Fargo ND

Only a couple of the roads look paved back then.

Why didn't they make it part of the new library when they built that chunk of glass and cement across the street from the engine.

Mr Hamburger--- at the Millilumen towers in San Fransisco California- the leaning towers

Wow, this is on par with building the great pyramids.

Very nice presentation. Thank you.

The CD162s, aka Signals, shown are commonly seen on household electrical service drops, railroad signal lines, and basically a general purpose low voltage (up to 2,400 volts) use piece. Pioneering electric distribution systems used these on their 2,400v/4160D systems. Modern distribution is at 7200v, 14,400v or another similar voltage. As a side note, the one you show after the blobtop Brookfield is also called a signal insulator. A cd133 or 134.

Was that Derrick Jesse James?

15:03 The purple one is actually the bottom part from a 2-piece transposition style insulator.

Very interesting and glad you were able to find out some info on your insulators. Some additional info: The purple insulator is actually the bottom half of a 2-piece "transposition" insulator (CD 191), which was used to cross telephone wires every few poles to eliminate cross-talk between circuits. CD 190/191. (like in slide at 21:15) The top is a bit chipped but can see some original molded contour left. This went on the wood pin first, then the top piece was screwed on second. Mostly these disappeared by 1900 in favor of single-piece styles, or use of a crossover bracket mounted on the crossarm, with 4 insulators. Ohio Brass was based in Mansfield OH, and are actually still in business today, under the Hubbell organization. OB makes mostly polymer strains, lightning arresters, and cutouts these days. Fred Locke started making porcelain in the 1890s and was one of the first in the US to make higher voltage porcelain in quantities for early power projects. His early insulators were made by Brookfield Glass in NY/NJ until he got the porcelain mfg process developed. In the 1930s he is credited for inventing "borosilicate glass", aka "boro-porcelain", aka Pyrex high temperature glass. Corning acquired the patents and started making cookware as well as insulators out of the glass. The date May 9, 1893 refers to the patent granted to Hemingray for the drip points on the skirt. The skirt(s) themselves were referred to as "petticoats" since they resembled the petticoats on the dress skirts of the time. I believe they also introduced the inner petticoat/skirt style on insulators also. The grooves on the Montreal insulators (Withycombe) were intended to reduce damage to the body of the insulator from rocks or other projectiles thrown at them. There is a similar design patented by Bain, which intended to increase surface area of the lower skirts and increase the leakage path, to reduce current leakage from the wire. The yellow-green Brookfield is an early telegraph insulator, CD126, referred to as a "blob top". Early telegraph insulators are pretty rare in such bright colors. Almost all were light aqua glass at that time, after 1865. Manganese was added to glass as a "clarifying agent", to make the clear glass more clear. Problem is manganese reacts with sunlight and turns the insulator purple eventually. "Surge" insulators I believe were made by Hemingray but marketed as a private system for insulating electric fences. Thus the small size.

You have many rare ones there, but there are a few that were common. And there are some insulators that are basically worthless (Hemingray 42s 9s and 17s) the purple broken one is frost popped meaning it was upside down water got into it and froze and broke it, but that is one of the most desirable colors. If it says petticoat that is to show that there are multiple skirts, and Dominion was a Canadian company that made knock-off Hemingray styles. And the glass insulator made by Locke is very rare, as almost all Locke insulators are porcelain.

Hold on what!!

Great presentation. I really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing this!! One thing I might add is present day photos to show the difference or the similarities. Just my two cents :)

thank you for sharing

I have a better quality photo of the baseball team @56.40 if you're interested! Let me know if you want me to send a copy!

Brilliant!

Miss Transcona!! I hope everyone is safe at museum in pandemic!

Really interesting and great presentation!!! Thank you

At 48:59, that is the underground bowling alley on Regent at Brewster that is now the Transcona Banquet Hall........

At 39:41, that would be a printing press from Transcona News by Sevalas..

At 27:47, it is a shame that CN sold out to the Americans. No pun intended with the 2747 Locomotive. Employees could no longer answer the phone "Canadian National Railway". They had to answer "CN".

At 22:34 that is the Municipal bldg on Pandora at Madeline St. which was the Fire and Police station.

At 11:51 it is definitely on the 100 block of Regent West and I suspect behind the Roco Station across the street from the Royal George Hotel. The building in the distance could be Porco's Barbers Shop.

At 51.05 is Roger TychoniK (pronounced Ty-kon-ic) who was the designer of Hi Neighbor Sam. At 57.25 that is the Queens Court........

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Fascinating!!! Amazing what they could do without all the equipment that we have nowadays

Painting all done and it looks great...................

The photo of Margaret Underhill School with the cornerstone was 1965.