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West Central Streets Newspaper

  • westcentralstreets
  • Corporate body
  • 1995-2011

West Central Streets was a newspaper conceived in 1995 by Erika Wiebe and Tammy Sutherland. The idea arose after the community newspaper Inner City Voices, which highlighted stories about Winnipeg's inner city and North End, stopped publication. Along with writer Tanya Lester and others, they envisioned West Central Streets with a similar theme, except that it would focus on the western part of Winnipeg's inner city and the everyday people living there. Part of its purport was to highlight the personal and positive aspects of the neighbourhood as a counterpoint to the generally negative stereotypes about it in Winnipeg's mainstream media. The first issue was published in October 1995.

The newspaper was funded primarily by Bill and Shirley Loewen, who had also funded Inner City Voices. It received further funding through LITE (Local Investment Towards Employment) from November 2001-April 2010. Erika Wiebe was the Coordinating Editor and worked with a small (five or less members), rotating Publishing Committee. The newspaper also brought in Guest Editors; each issue focused on a different street in the neighbourhood, with a Guest Editor residing on that street. Six Youth Editors were also employed over the course of the newspaper as part of the funding through LITE.

West Central Streets stopped publication mainly due to the loss of its LITE grant; as well, the Coordinating Editor was unable to continue work on the newspaper through her job as Community Development Worker. The West Central neighbourhood had also changed significantly since the newspaper began in 1995. The Publishing Committee decided, therefore, to cease publication, and the last issue of the newspaper was published in January 2011.

Wesmen Athletics

  • Wesmen
  • Corporate body
  • 1966-2017

The athletics program at the University of Winnipeg traces its roots to the intercollegiate sports leagues formed among Winnipeg’s schools starting in 1889. Both of the University’s forerunners Manitoba and Wesley College participated in these leagues, which included football, track, basketball, and hockey. Manitoba College included a gymnasium in the expansions to its building in 1894. Wesley College, in turn, had a small gym in the basement of its original 1896 building as well as the advantage of Wesley Park – the land stretching from behind the building to Ellice Avenue – for a field in the summer and a rink in the winter. Further gym facilities were included in the basement of Sparling Hall, opened in 1913. The Intercollegiate leagues engendered friendly competition and school spirit among Winnipeg’s early colleges, and the colleges included sport facilities for their students from the beginning.

In 1962, United College appointed its first professional Athletics Director, Blue Bomber player Raymond Jauch, in anticipation of its new Riddell Hall gymnasium that opened the following year. These changes allowed United College to take its athletics program more seriously. In 1966, as the reality of becoming an independent University began to take shape, the United College Student Council held a public competition and vote to name its sports team. The winning entry was Wesmen, a “pluralized” combination of Wesley and Manitoba. The new University of Winnipeg, with an Athletics Director, a good gym, and a brand for its sports team, was set to participate in the national University sports scene.

Shortly after the University of Winnipeg’s incorporation, the Wesmen began to compete with other University teams across Canada as a member of two sports governing bodies: the Western Intercollegiate Athletic Association (later Great Plains Athletic Conference, and Canada West Universities Athletic Association) and the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (later Canadian Interuniversity Sport, and U Sports). The main competitive sports of the Wesmen were basketball, volleyball, and hockey, although the latter discontinued after 1984. The University had both men’s and women’s teams in basketball and volleyball – the women’s teams are known as the Wesmenettes or the Lady Wesmen. In addition to the seasonal games of sports governing bodies, the Wesmen hosted invitational tournaments – most notably the Wesmen Classic (previously the Golden Boy Classic, 1967-1976) and others; and was invited to play in similar tournaments hosted by other institutions.

Having long since outgrown the Riddell Hall gym, the University opened its much-needed Athletics Centre in 1984. The facility gave the Wesmen the resources and space they needed to remain nationally competitive. That building has remained the cornerstone of Wesmen sports to the present day; in 1992, it was renamed to the Duckworth Centre in honour of the University’s past President Henry Duckworth, a proponent of athletics. 2008 saw an expansion to the building, the Bill Wedlake Fitness Centre, named after long-time basketball coach and retiring Athletics Director. Finally, in 2014, the building was complemented by the Axworthy Health and RecPlex, an adjoining fieldhouse for soccer and sports education.

The Athletic Directors at United College and the University of Winnipeg, to date, include: Raymond Jauch (1962-1964); Edward Vidruk (1964-1966); David Anderson (1966-1984, covered by Glen Conly during a leave of absence in 1973); Aubrey Ferris (1984-2000); Bill Wedlake (2000-2008); Doran Reid (2009-2015); and Dave Crook (2015-present).

University of Winnipeg Library

  • library_uw
  • Corporate body
  • 1938-

The University of Winnipeg Library traces its roots to the libraries of Manitoba and Wesley Colleges. These institutions, founded in 1871 and 1888, respectively, included libraries in their first permanent facilities that opened in 1882 and 1896, whose collections were built up and overseen by devoted members of the Colleges’ faculty.

Much of the history of the library is one of inadequate space and expansion. Manitoba College sold its building in 1931 and mostly transferred its facilities to Wesley College, including its library collection. Due to limited space, the books mostly wound up in Wesley’s attic. Wesley constructed a two-storey expansion for its library in 1934. When the two colleges joined to form United College in 1938, so did their library collections. After World War 2, the influx of returning soldiers caused an enrollment boom that necessitated the construction of the Library & General Theological Building – later renamed Bryce Hall – in 1951. Ashdown Hall opened in 1959 as another expansion, as increasing space was allotted to the library in Bryce. Finally, in 1972, the library moved to its present home in the upper floors of Centennial Hall.

University of Winnipeg Foundation

  • foundation_uw
  • Corporate body
  • 2003-

The University of Winnipeg’s official fundraising began in 1990 with the formation of the Fundraising Office and the “Strengthening the Links” campaign, a part of University Relations or its variants. In 2001, the University conducted a Feasibility Study to determine the possibility of a separately incorporated fundraising body. Using insight gathered through this study, the University of Winnipeg Board of Regents approved the idea of an incorporated private fundraising body in 2002. The University of Winnipeg Foundation was incorporated with charitable tax status 2 August 2002, and publicly announced 1 April 2003. The Foundation was guided by a Board of Directors, to whom a CEO reported along with a contingent of financial, administrative, and donor relations staff. The Foundation took custody of assets, investments, and scholarship and bursary funds from the University, and was given offices in Wesley Hall. Shortly after, the Foundation undertook its University of Winnipeg Campaign, a fundraising and investment effort that would continue until 2011. The campaign was launched publicly in November 2007 as the “A World of Opportunity” Capital Campaign with an initial goal of $70 million, exceeded by the time the campaign came to a close in September 2011 by over $7 million.

The Foundation’s financial support and fundraising has played a major enabling role in the University’s campus expansions and program development since its incorporation. Some notable examples include the restorations to Wesley Hall; the Aboriginal Student Centre; the Canwest Centre for Theatre and Film; and the Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex. In addition to campus and curriculum, the Foundation also provided over $1 million per year as scholarships and bursaries.

University of Winnipeg Club

  • university_club
  • Corporate body
  • 1975-

The original idea for the University of Winnipeg Club began to form during the University’s campus expansion in 1970. The club was intended to be a dedicated lounging, dining, and entertainment space for faculty and staff to form a community that the proposers felt was lacking in the new University’s rapidly developing campus. The first plan, officially proposed in 1971, was to renovate a space in the basement of the neighbouring Mall Hotel. While that plan never took shape, the second, approved by the Board of Regents in 1974, was to refit the fourth floor of the University’s historic Wesley Hall for the purpose. The University of Winnipeg Faculty and Staff Club was then officially incorporated in 1975. The Club obtained a liquor license the following year, notably as the first institution in the University’s history to do so on a permanent basis.

After the initial remodeling when the Club first opened, the space has undergone only a single major change. In 1984, Professor David Hewlett drafted a design to renovate a section of the Club modeled after an English-style pub. The renovations, called the Pub and Snug, were completed in 1985 and the design has not been altered to the present day.

The Club is guided by a Board of Directors; originally the Board was nine, but in 1990 it was expanded to 12. In all cases, all but one of those are elected from among the Club’s membership, and the remaining one is appointed by the President of the University. The President of the Club is, in turn, elected from among the Board in one-year terms. Membership in the Club was at first available to full-time employees of the University, the spouse of a member, or alumni; and was later expanded to include part-time employees and retirees. In 2011 membership was further broadened to alumni, students of the 55+ Program, and employees of the University of Manitoba, Red River College, and CBC.

The Faculty and Staff Club’s membership came to be comprised of a significant proportion of members who were not faculty or staff. At the end of 2012, therefore, the Board discussed the idea of a different name. In 2013 the vote was passed, the paperwork penned, and the name was changed to the University of Winnipeg Club.

University of Winnipeg Alumni Association

  • alumniassociation_uw
  • Corporate body
  • 1967-

The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association traces its roots to the Wesley Graduates Association, which was organized at a meeting of nearly 150 alumni on February 15th, 1935. Other alumni organizations already existed within Wesley and Manitoba Colleges: such as the Wesley Club, the Wesley Alumnae Association, and the Manitoba College Alma Mater Society. The Alumnae Association joined them at their second meeting on March 14th. The Wesley Graduates Association had an elected President and Executive and served to keep updated information on alumni and distribute College literature to its members i.e. Vox Wesleyana. It also raised funds for scholarships and bursaries. In June 1938, when Manitoba and Wesley joined as United College, the Wesley Graduates Association became the United College Graduates Association and also took over the Alma Mater Society of Manitoba College. United College became the University of Winnipeg in July 1967, and during the academic year of 1967-1968 the United College Graduates Association voted to changed its name to the University of Winnipeg Alumni Association.

The University of Winnipeg Alumni Association increased its membership and involvement with the University after 1967 with several initiatives, such as publishing the Alumni Bulletin starting in 1970 to communicate news and stay in touch with alumni, and campaigning for the Entrance Scholarship Program starting in 1973. In addition to other awards and scholarships offered or funded by the Association, starting in 1990 the Distinguished Alumni Award was established.

Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc.

  • mb-tsp
  • Corporate body
  • 2018 --

Two-Spirited People of Manitoba Inc. is an organization that seeks to improve the quality of life of Two-Spirit (Indigenous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) people. It is run by a volunteer Board of Directors, and its activities include awareness workshops, community events, and activism. It has existed since 1986, co-founded by Albert McLeod; it was registered as a Non Profit Organization in 2007. It is one of seventeen organizations affiliated with the International Council of Two-Spirit Societies.

Stephen Schipper

  • Person
  • 1955-

Schipper was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1955. He began studying at McGill University and transferred to the performing arts program at Bishop’s University. He was then accepted into the National Theatre School of Canada and graduated in 1978.

After graduation, Schipper worked around Canada as a theatre actor and director. From 1985-1987, he joined the Huron Country Playhouse in Ontario as Artistic Director. He moved to the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1987 as Associate Artistic Director, and in 1989 as Artistic Director until 2019. During this position, he also directed and developed plays for other theatres, primarily in Winnipeg but also elsewhere in Canada. In 2019 he moved to Brampton, Ontario as the Executive Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre where he remains to the present.

Schipper has received several awards and distinctions during his theatrical career. These include an Honourary Doctorate from both the University of Winnipeg in 2007 and the University of Manitoba in 2015. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2012 and awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Schneider/Snyder Family

  • schneider
  • Family
  • 1897-

Frederick C. (Fritz) Schneider was born in Emmendingen, Germany in 1897. He served in the First World War before pursuing a doctorate degree in law at the age of 21. He graduated in 1920 from the Albert-Ludwig-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. In the same year, Mathilde (Thilde) Hölscher, born in 1895, completed her doctorate in medicine, also from the Albert-Ludwig-Universität. The two married in 1921 in Herne, Germany, where Thilde was born and raised. In 1922 Thilde gave birth to their eldest son, Hans, followed by their second child, Fred, in 1925. In 1926, Fritz and approximately 20 other families made the group purchase of farmland near Lockport, Manitoba, Canada. Fritz, Thilde and their two children emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1927, where they co-founded the Society Farms and Little Britain community. In 1928, their daughter Marianne was born, and in 1929, another daughter, Edith. Marianne was tragically killed c. 1930-31 in a farm-related accident. Just a few months later, son Wilfred was born. The date of birth for Fritz and Thilde's youngest child, Norbert (Bert), is unknown. From 1939 to 1942, Fritz was interned in four different locations: in Kananaskis (Alberta), City Jail (Manitoba), Petawawa (Ontario) and Gagetown (New Brunswick). During this time, Thilde and Fritz both petitioned for hearings and his release. Sometime after he was released, Fritz and his family relocated to Quebec to start a business venture. An exact date for the name change from Schneider to Snyder is unknown, but likely took place during or shortly after the Second World War. Fritz and Thilde remained in Quebec until Fritz's retirement in 1977, when the two relocated to Mexico. Thilde died in 1980, and Fritz spent much of his time in Mexico, coming back to Quebec sporadically. He was residing in Quebec upon his death in 1992. Four of their five adult children have since died: Hans c. 2003; Edith in 2007; Wilfred in 2012; and Fred in 2013.

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