30 Years Ago: A 52-thousand ton Japanese freighter, called Nikko Maru, docked in Churchill at the start of the port's 50th shipping season.
Eight Metis protestors from Norway House vowed to live on bannock and water and continued their sit-in outside the Manitoba legislature, calling for a $1 million aid package to deal with their community's high unemployment rates and help them establish a sawmill and a fish processing plant.
20 Years Ago:
There were 190 forest fires continuing to burn in the North, with a new blaze starting about half a mile from Poplar River, which was contained quickly.
Dwayne Archie Johnson, the convicted murderer of Helen Betty Osborne, turned down the chance to testify at Manitoba's native justice inquiry into Osborne's 1971 stabbing death.
10 Year Ago:
Infrastructure renewal was a hot topic with city council as Finance Minister Harold Gilleshammer notes in a letter to council that the province is committed to continue its efforts in renewing national infrastructure and developing a national highway initiative.
Youth-4-Youth, a teen organization based out of the Ma Mow We Tak Friendship Centre, prepared to clean up one graffiti site a day around Thompson.
