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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 03/12/2010 (5599 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
I wrote the below blog post yesterday, and today the Wikipedia write up for Garson, Manitoba has been changed. I couldn’t figure out how to do it myself so I’m glad someone did. Although it’s unclear (The Wikipedia entry is at the bottom of this post) if I actually proved anything, it’s at least a step closer to keeping Garson on the map, which makes me proud. Ans satisfied. Stay strong small-town Manitoba.
I was reading some stuff this morning and came across a birthday of a Manitoban I had not heard of but probably should have. Today is the birthday of Stuart Sinclair Garson. He was Premier of this province from 1943 – 1948. I was interested in finding out more about him as I’m a big fan of the town of Garson, and wanted to figure out if it was named for him. Turns out it wasn’t, but what I found was a greater but far more disturbing discovery. According to Wikipedia, the town of Garson is “a dissolved former village in the Canadian province of Manitoba“. Well, Wikipedia, you have done me wrong. Much like I took exception this past summer to The Winnipeg Free Press describing my hometown with following “Even though it’s on the map and its name is on highway signs and even on this story’s placeline, there really is no Cook’s Creek“, I am now at odds with Wikipedia for a small town slight. Garson is no dissolved former village. It is awesome. I have, in the past year, bought beer at the Garson Hotel, purchased gas and a fishing lisence at the store, eaten food from the fantastic Harvest Moon Cafe, and looked back fondly on my time at the greatest daycare in history… Busy Buddies. In Garson. Don’t play me Wikipedia. I take small town Manitoba seriously. I will fight for your rights. Garson is awesome, and as soon as I figure out how to edit Wikipedia that’s what it will say.
***Update*** As of today… the Wikipedia entry reads as follows…
Garson is an inhabited place located within the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead. It has been referred to as dissolved, but that has been disputed. Ace Burpee of the Winnipeg Free Press, in a blog post jokingly criticizing Wikipedia, argued that it is not dissolved and added that in his opinion it is “awesome.”[1] The ePodunk article on the village states it did amalgamate with Brokenhead in 2003 and that the population is/was 350.[2] City-Data, however, placed it at 324.