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This week is all about the GREAT ELEPHANT ESCAPE of Winnipeg of 1907! Join host Grant Simpson in this recounting of Winnipeg History when one Lion and several Elephants escaped from Winnipeg’s Happyland. All’s well that ends well, and this story has adventure, tension and a love story ending.
Here’s a link to Bruce Cherny’s great article on the event, published in the Real Estate News: Happyland — Winnipeg’s “mammoth amusement park” scene of elephant stampede
1918: An elephant from the American vaudeville stage riding a specially constructed tricycle. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) Spetmeber 1, 1936, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England, UK — Power’s elephants play cricket on the sands at Skegness. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS