History
This riding was originally created in 1914 from Winnipeg and Selkirk ridings.
In 1924, it was abolished, and parts transferred to Winnipeg North Centre and Winnipeg South Centre ridings.
In 1997, it was re-created from Winnipeg North Centre and Winnipeg South Centre.
Read more about this topic: Winnipeg Centre
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
—William James (1842–1910)
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—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)