When the COVID clock struck midnight
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Monthly Digital Subscription
$0 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*No charge for 4 weeks then price increases to the regular rate of $19.00 plus GST every four weeks. Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
Monthly Digital Subscription
$4.75/week*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Billed as $19 plus GST every four weeks. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
*Your next subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $16.99 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $23.99 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 07/03/2025 (247 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Mask with bead print, designed by Cynthia Boehm, Cree beadwork artist from Norway House.
Schools emptied, restaurants shuttered, offices closed.
A new lexicon was birthed, lessons in handwashing were reinforced and masking up (for most) became the norm.
It’s been five years since a virus — severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) — triggered a global pandemic.
We visited the Manitoba Museum archives earlier this week to check out the modern-day mementos it collected from the public while history was unfolding.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
A collage of floor signs promoting social distancing is part of the Manitoba Museum’s collection of COVID-related artifacts collected in the spring of 2021.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Drawing by artist Gérald Dufault, pastel and Conte crayon, Nature Morte en Eau de Javel / Still Life in Water with Javex, reflects practice of disinfecting their produce in sink full of water with a small amount of bleach.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Cartoon by Christopher Chuckry, an artist and illustrator who began a new daily art practise of creating a political cartoon and posting it to his Twitter account, 10 months later at the time of the donation, he had created approx. 260 drawings.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Rocks painted by Easton Gervais, Age 12.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Wall Hanging by Elaine Filyk, 38 Days & Counting, following a rescue flight home from Phoenix on March 21. Filyk produced hundreds of masks for front-line workers, the work contains pieces of the masks.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Wall Hanging created by Joan Dupuis-Neal inspired by a cartoon by Adam Zyglis, political cartoonist; A Year of COVID 19 Begins.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Crocheted virus models. After receiving one as a gift, Karen Matthews created numerous balls for friends and family across the country. The crochet work helped to cope with a difficult year marked by the loss of three family members, including a grandson to COVID.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Roland Sawatzky, Curator of History at the Manitoba Museum, with their COVID-19 collection of ‘momentos’ that were submitted after they put out a call for items in the spring of 2021.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Gingerbread Man ornament. Mary Anne Buchko made over 200 of these ornaments for Christmas 2020.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS
Print by Mark Walker, created from a Covid-themes painting created by the artist.
