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People: The SJF History |
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(B Sir John Franklin Community Centre has recently joined together with River Heights and Crescentwood Community Centres to form the Central Corydon Community Centre, also known as C4. We welcome you to our a new chapter in our history with this new site, and look forward to your visit at any of the three sites we operate from. Sir John Franklin Community Centre has a long and proud tradition in Winnipeg. We have been through some major changes, too. A fire devastated the original SJFCC years ago, for instance. We hope to provide a more complete historical picture of our community centre here in the future. We have been adding a lot of photos of our teams. If you have some interesting trivia about our community centre, or details, please send them to us! |
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But, who was Sir John Franklin, anyway?
For more information on Sir John Franklin (1786 - 1847), visit www.sirjohnfranklin.com. Franklin has a firm place in history partly because of the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of his last voyage, to find the elusive North-West Passage that would secure a very profitable trade route across the Canadian Arctic. Here is a selection from that web site: The Franklin expedition of 1845 is by far the biggest Arctic maritime disaster known. It is mainly popular in a few Commonwealth countries, curiously not so in England and the USA. Sir John Franklin and his crew of 130 men disappeared in the Canadian Arctic with nothing but a few remnants and bones as proof of their passage. Another excellent web site on Sir John Franklin is one by Dr. Russell Potter. He also provides some excellent links to further reading. |
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