June 13: The Mall Centre opened; remembering Andrew Mynarski.

June 13, 1906 - Clifford Thomas "Cliff" Crowley was born in Winnipeg. Crowley was a member of The Winnipegs hockey team that won the gold medal at the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. He died in 1948.

June 13, 1912 - In a money referendum, Brandonites voted 93 per cent in favour of their city borrowing $300,000 to fund a municipal street railway system.

June 13, 1944 - Winnipegger Andrew Charles (Andy) Mynarski V.C. died at the age of 27. He was the first RCAF member to receive the Victoria Cross in WWII. To read his V.C. citation.

June 13, 1964 - The Mall Centre, which contained Winnipeg's new bus depot, opened. It is now the U of W AnX.

June 13, 1984 - The Archway Warehouse, Jail and Powder Magazine remains in Norway House was designated a Provincial Heritage Site.

June 13, 1985 - Nearly 4,000 Manitoba laws were declared invalid by a Supreme Court ruling. The laws, written in English only, must be translated into French.


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