History & Museum
Historical Stories
Ron “Hopper” Bilton takes on the World
- researched & written by John Burchill, Vice President, Winnipeg Police Museum and Historical Society
Canadian Wrestling Champion - Constable W.L. McIntyre
- researched & written by John Burchill, Vice President, Winnipeg Police Museum and Historical Society
A Grow like no other
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Andy Golebioski
Dick Tracy Gets Smacked Down: Comic Crimes in Winnipeg
- researched & written by John Burchill, Vice President, Winnipeg Police Museum and Historical Society
Mary Ellen Dunn - Service's first police woman hired in 1916
- researched & written by Constable Randy James (retired)
History of the Winnipeg Park Patrol
115 Years of policing Winnipeg's Parks 1897-2012
- researched & written by Sergeant John Burchill (retired)
The Murder of Constable Len Shakespeare
(July, 1969)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
"The
Pervert Murders" (circa 1946)
- researched & written by Patrol Sergeant Mark
Hodgson
Constable Erling Walter
Hansen #194-B (June, 1944)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
Lest We Forget
- The Murder of Edwin L. Pearse (November, 1943)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
The Julia Johnson Mystery
(April, 1928)
- researched & written by Patrol Sergeant Mark
Hodgson
Bad Luck Bank Robbers
(June, 1944)
- researched & written by Patrol Sergeant Mark
Hodgson
The Martin Silver Story
(April, 1944)
- researched & written by Patrol Sergeant Mark
Hodgson
Bloody Jack (November,
1913)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
Wordless Westgate
(February, 1928)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
Manitoba Provincial
Police (circa 1871 to 1932)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
An
Un-Auspicious Beginning (February, 1874)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
The Death of A Chief
(July, 1880)
(Death of Chief Robert Power - Manitoba Provincial
Police)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
The Rat Portage War
(circa 1883)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
Two Can Keep A Secret -
If One Is Dead (January, 1896)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
James Dodds - An
Arsonist's Flame (March, 1912)
- researched & written by Constable Scott
Taylor
The Forgotten Policeman
(January, 1913)
(Murder of Constable Charles Rooke - Manitoba
Provincial Police)
- researched by Patrol Sergeant Albert Apostle &
written by Staff Sergeant Jack Templeman (retired)
Of
Badges, Bullets and Brothels (August, 1913)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
The Rape of Florence
Stuart (January, 1919)
- researched & written by Patrol Sergeant Mark
Hodgson
Murders In St. Boniface
(November, 1920)
(Murder of Constables Alex McCurdy & James Uttley
- Manitoba Provincial Police)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
Booze, Banks
and Bullets (circa 1921)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Strangler (June,
1927)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
Whiskey & Orphanages
(January, 1929)
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
Murder On the Prairies
(October, 1935)
(Murders of Constable William Wainwright - Benito
Town Police, Constables John Shaw & George Harrison and Sergeant
Thomas Wallace - RCMP)
- researched & written by Constable Scott
Taylor
Police Commission Medal
(circa 1947)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Murder of
Detective Sergeant James Sims (July, 1950)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Man From
Nowhere (January, 1975)
- researched & written by Patrol Sergeant Mark
Hodgson
At the End of the Rope
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill
The Death of Constable
John Beattie (April, 1911)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Murder of
Constable Bernard Snowdon (April, 1918)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Murder of
Constable John McDonald (February, 1940)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Murder of
Constable Charles Gillis (January, 1936)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Murder of
Sergeant John Verne (July, 1934)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The Murder of
Detective Ron Houston (June, 1970)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
Policewomen
In Winnipeg
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
The First
Chinese Detective (May, 1910)
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
Police
Gallantry - The Kings Police Medal
- researched & written by Staff Sergeant Jack
Templeman (retired)
Back To the
Basics
- researched & written by Detective Sergeant John
Burchill