15 Friday May 2020
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One more historical photo before boating season begins for 2020.
The year is 1960 and Ralph Miller (left) is presenting the clubs first lifetime membership to Chas Harvey who was the original secretary of the club and signed the first lease for the property. Ralph was the treasurer in those early years.
02 Saturday May 2020
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This photo would have been taken in the mid sixties in front of the new clubhouse. I will guess that that is the Commodore raising the triangular R flag. There is another photo that shows a large Canadian flag that was also flying on that pole.
09 Thursday Apr 2020
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Late in 1963 a building appropriate for use as a club house was found and a plan to acquire it was put in place.
A temporary office for the Toronto Dominion bank was available and the club raised the funds in part by selling shares to members. In the previous 3 years the membership had more than doubled to almost 200.
The share paid off by paying part of the membership fees over the next 7 years.
05 Sunday Apr 2020
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In December of 1958 the Redboine Boating Club signed a lease with the city of Winnipeg for land at the club site to build a ramp to improve the club members access to the river.
16 Sunday Feb 2020
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An extensive report on the state of the Red River and what should be done for its redevelopment within the city of Winnipeg was written in 1960 by T. Atkinson from the U of M school of architecture. A copy of the full report is still kept by our club. In the report there are descriptions of all the existing features along the river including this paragraph about the Redboine Boat Club.
02 Sunday Feb 2020
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Today we share the typed minutes from a meeting at what was most likely a cold day in February of 1956. It would be a while before the club procured a clubhouse of their own own so these meetings were held at the St. Vital hotel. I like the details of the raffle and the signatures of the President and Secretary.
11 Saturday Jan 2020
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The precursor to our boating club that was mentioned in the last blog was the Greater Winnipeg Boating Association that was formed in the early fifties. A poster advertising for memberships at 3$ per year has been saved and is shown below. The large lettered RIVER FILTH attracts your attention, how was it not more successful?
04 Saturday Jan 2020
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Welcome to midwinter. For the enjoyment of members and to possibly encourage new members to join there will be the occasional post coming to share some of the artifacts that have been preserved concerning the history of the club.
Today the item to be shared is a typed one page history of the club that was written some time after 1964.
29 Sunday Sep 2019
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With record rainfall in September the waters of the Red River have risen to the point where it was dangerous to have our boats attached to the rising docks, so the boating season came to an abrupt end last week. Thank you to all members who helped out and got their boats out of the water on short notice.
09 Monday Sep 2019
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The Club is offering docking only until the season end, which is scheduled for the weekend of October 6th. All boats, including members boats will have to have to be out by then. This special will cost $100.00.
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