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Sp
* The world's
first renowned
serial killer Earl
"The Strangler"
Nelson criss-crossed
the States until
he landed in
Winnipeg in
June 1927.
After killing
two local
Fort Garry Hotel,
women, he
Photo Courtesy The
Centre
Spa and Conference
fled to Regina
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and back to the
sy Gerry Kope
low
Manitoba-U.S. border
Opened in 1928, Winnipeg
hoping to evade
James Armstrong Richardson
capture. Police and
International Airport, then called
citizens caught Nelson,
Stephenson Field, was the first
who had by that time
international airport in Canada. In
killed 26 people in 20
2011, the airport opened Canada's
months. Nelson was
first LEED-certified terminal, and
shipped by train back
it was named one of the world's
to Winnipeg
iconic airports by Travel Channel.
where he was
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convicted and hung.
* It is said that
quirks & oddities
The Fort Garry Hotel
is haunted by a ghostly
woman in a ball gown,
a phantom diner and
a mysterious ghost
light that traverses
the hallways of this
grand hotel.
