{"product_id":"9781554880621","title":"A Winnipeg Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinnipeg was Canada’s first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then had a university, newspapers, publishing firms, a major theatre, and a vibrant mass of immigrants who flooded in to open up the West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowing Winnipeg was served with paddle-wheelers on the Red River, Red River ox carts, a Canadian-owned railway to St. Paul, Minnesota, and finally the CPR linking Montreal with the west coast.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Winnipeg Album\u003c\/i\u003e is a pictorial impression of Winnipeg’s colourful, dramatic, and relatively brief history, compiled and with commentary by John David Hamilton and Bonnie Dickie. Over one hundred stunning black-and-white photographs record the early days of the city and trace some of the dramatic events that made Winnipeg \"Canada’s Chicago.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132818768112,"sku":"9781554880621","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554880621_p0.jpg?v=1763758739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554880621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}