March 6: Winnipeg supply; Speaker Bird tarred and beaten.

March 6, 1904 - The Winnipeg Supply Company is incorporated by a Toronto-based consortium of lime manufacturers and contractors. The company began as a fuel distribution business and ran a limestone quarry at Stonewall. It is now part of Service Experts.

March 6, 1873 - Dr. Curtis James Bird, speaker of the legislature, is lured from his bed in the middle of the night on a false medical call. He is seized, beaten unconscious and smeared in warm tar. It was retribution for a procedural call that he made that prevented the first City of Winnipeg Act to pass.