December 18: Dr. Duckworth; CKX FM on the air; Shragge the scrap king.

December 18, 1963 - CKX-FM Brandon goes on the air broadcasting from noon to midnight.

December 18, 1989 - It is announced that smoking on Canadian commercial flights is prohibited. CBC Archives story.

 

December 18, 1861 - Benjamin Schragge is born in Austria. In the 1880s he came to Winnipeg and by 1890 was operating a scrap yard at King Street and Dufferin Avenue. In 1913 he had the Schragge Warehouse built on that spot.

December 18, 1957 - The Brandon Generating Station, the first coal-burning generating station built by the Manitoba Hydro Energy Board, goes into initial service with one 33-MW unit.

December 18, 1893 - Bishop Robert Machray is elected the first Anglican Primate of Canada.

December 18, 2008 – Dr. Harry Duckworth dies.

Born in Brandon in 1915, he attended Wesley College and received his PhD in physics from the University of Chicago. After a successful research career in nuclear physics, much of it at McMaster University, he returned to Manitoba to serve as vice president of the U of M (1965 - 70), president of the U of W (1971 - 78), and chancellor of the U of M (1986 - 92).