Winnipeg Manitoba: McNally & Chapters 2011

 Joan and I were rescued from the maze and traffic of this windy city by our 

cousin, Stephanie Hayes. Stephanie runs a wonderful cleaning service, 

Sweepers Keepers, which services many commercial properties, and lots 

of residential along the massive Lake Winnipeg to the north.

  Stephanie's daughter, Kiana, wants at 13 to be a writer, 

and reads voraciously.

 

 Rand McNally, the flagship bookstore of the Middle West, 

put on an amazing display of The Alford Saga. It’s an 

“event-driven” bookstore, so they sure know how to do things.

 Christa introduced me.

 Here, I met the relatives of the famous Ukrainian film-maker, Yurij Luhovy, 

who with his outstanding talents as an editor had helped me on 

many feature films. Prof. Yaroslav, here with Oksana, was a key 

in developing Ukrainian Studies at the University of Manitoba.

 At Chapters, I found the store sells a variety of other things beside books. 

 I was pleased to meet a TV personality: TV Chef Robert Thomas (on facebook 

at facebook.com/chef.rob.thomas) and his pretty partner, Abbey Martin. 

Abbey claims an offspring studying film in Montreal, but she’s far too young.

From our splendid hotel room in the Fort Garry Hotel, we could see 

the huge Viarail station awaiting our next departure. 
The construction behind the station will be the new 
Museum of Human Rights.