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Friday 1 January 2021

My most popular blog posts of 2020

© 2021, Christian Cassidy

At the end of each year I like to take a look back and see what "dumplings" attracted the most attention.

It's no surprise to me that my most viewed post is one written back 2008, predating West End Dumplings, and has been updated a few times since. It is about Ken Leishman, a.k.a. The Flying Bandit.

There's so much interest in this guy more than 50 years after his big gold heist! Earlier this year, I was part of an Audible podcast about his capers.

Here's a rundown of my most visited posts of 2020. Those with asterisks were written in 2020:

1. Kenneth Leishman: The Flying Bandit

2. ***Lives lived at 514 Wellington Crescent

3. ***Brandon’s Art Deco Gem for Sale

4. Budweiser’s Clydesdales and their Winnipeg origin

5. Put your trash into Orbit

6. Len Fairchuk, The Western Hour, and the Rex Theatre

7. ***Sunday Movie: Ted Baryluk’s Grocery

8. ***Tragic Ending: Manitobans Who Died fighting Spanish influenza Part I

9. ***The West End’s Cumberland Corridor turns 50

10. A belated bye-bye to Blue Ribbon Tea

11. Manitoba Black History: Percy Haynes

12. ***Plagiarising Winnipeg History - part 3

13. ***Farewell to The Bay’s Portage Avenue Flagship

14. The Titanic's Manitoba Connections

15. ***Tragic Endings: James A Boyd of Young Street

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