Jan. 18: Haselemere fire; Art Gallery opens; Transcona Shops open; Plum Coulee becomes a village.

January 18, 1901 - Plum Coulee was incorporated as a village.

January 18, 1913 - The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway's Transcona Shops officially opened. 

January 18, 1916 - Manitoba's first Girl Guide company was registered in Winnipeg. 

January 18, 1925 - James Stuart, considered one of Manitoba's "Fathers of Electrification", died. Also see James Stuart Electrifies Winnipeg.

 

January 18, 1972 - The Winnipeg Art Gallery opened to the general public.

It was officially opened on September 24, 1971 during a Royal Tour of Princess Margaret and her husband the Earl of Snowdon, but due to a series of labour strikes had fallen months behind schedule and much of the building was not yet completed. It was closed after the Royals left to finish the work.

January 18, 1974 - The Haselmere Apartments fire on Ellice Avenue killed nine people. It is the second deadliest fire in Winnipeg's history.

January 19, 1977 - The original Original Food Bar building on Main Street was destroyed by fire.
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