After retiring from his career as a school principal and teacher, Russ Gourluck decided to write a book about Winnipeg’s iconic Eaton’s department store, but he had no formal training as a writer or historian and knew very little about how to write a book and get it published. Since then, Russ has written three Canadian Bestsellers: A Store Like No Other: Eaton’s of Winnipeg (2004), Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg’s Portage Avenue (2006), and The Mosaic Village: An Illustrated History of Winnipeg’s North End (2010) as well as Picturing Manitoba: Legacies of The Winnipeg Tribune (2008) and two corporate histories. His next book, Silver Screens on the Prairie: An Illustrated History of Motion Picture Theatres in Manitoba will be published in the fall of 2012.
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