Article: Looking Back: January 3, 2009

SIXTY YEARS AGO

The mean temperature in Brandon for December was 2.65 above zero with a high of 41 and a low of 37 below. In the month, there were 30 inches of snow and 86.6 hours of sunshine.

FIFTY YEARS AGO

Fidel Castro's rebels completed their victory sweep across Cuba and Castro is headed for Havana with armoured forces and troops.

Business in Brandon ended the year 1958 well on the road to recovery from a nation-wide recession that struck the city in the spring of 1957, interrupting a post-war boom. The year just ending witnessed a complete reversal of the recession trend and despite a drought scare last spring, Brandon - the shopping centre of western Manitoba's agricultural community ...

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