HOX. DK. SCHULTZ. 



(Now Lieutenant-Governor.) 



A founder of Winnipeg. 



CHARITIES. 



If to-day Winnipeg is celebrated for her 

 charitable institutions it is because these 

 v ere begun along with the first breath of 

 our infant city. In the summer of 1871, 

 from the crowded state of the boarding 

 houses and improper food, the fever as- 

 sumed of the character of an epidemic. 

 The writer remembers visiting a hastily 

 erected building on the Redriver,near the 

 foot of Broadway where a temporarv hos- 

 pital had been begun in that year. In the 

 following year in December a meeting of 

 citizens was called to consider the matter 

 of founding a general hospital. A wooden 

 building was erected in due time on the 

 block of land still occupied by the hospi- 

 tal. This site on the McDermott estate, 

 was procured largely through the 

 exertions of Mr. Bannatyne. 



THE EARLY NEWSPAPER. 



The scope of the present paper will not 

 justify a history of the newspapers of the 

 early days. The writer is glad to know 

 that another member of the society in- 

 tends giving a paper on the newspapers 

 of Manitoba. The earliest paper was the 

 Nor'- Wester. This goes back to pre- 

 Winnipeg days. A somewhat complete 

 accouut of its sayings and doings 

 is found in Hargrave's Ued River. 

 The Nor' Wester was seized by Kiel in 

 1870. At this time appeared tie New 

 Nation, the organ of the Riel government. 

 Its existence was as shortlived as the 

 sovernrtient of the rebel. In October, 

 1870, Mr. W. Coldwell, oneof the founders 

 of the Nor' Wester, was joined by Mr. 

 Robert Cunningham, who had come to 

 Manitoba as Telegram correspondent, and 



