Recently added articles from Manitoba History:
"Covenant servants": contract, negotiation, and accommodation in Hudson Bay, 1670-1782.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Throughout its long first century (1670-1782), the Hudson s Bay Company (HBC) drew its labour force almost entirely from the competitive labour "market" of early modern Britain, with the movement of men to and from the Bay reflective of the domestic labour mobility of the period. The ...
The origins of Autopac: an essay on the possibility of social democratic government in Manitoba.
Oct 01, 2008; ... As the title suggests, this article will concern itself with the question of whether or not social democratic government is a real possibility in Manitoba. On the one hand, the question may seem odd. The New Democratic Party (NDP) of Manitoba is a social democratic party. It is currently ...
Life history as a window to understanding the politics of teaching and schooling: Manitoba teacher Sybil Shack (1911-2004).
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Sybil Shack helped define education in the province of Manitoba, Canada, as much as Manitoba and its schools defined her. She was a teacher, teaching principal, textbook writer, educational writer, broadcaster, leader of teachers' organizations, and civil ...
The advancement of knowledge in La Perouse's 1782 expedition to Hudson Bay.
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of the greatest figures in the history of the French Navy, Count Francois Galaup de La Perouse, is best known for leading a scientific voyage of discovery around the world in 1785-1788. King Louis XVI clearly was not mistaken when he chose one of the most talented officers in his fleet ...
A memoir of the CPR Telegraph office.(Gazette)
Oct 01, 2008; ... In 1942, the Winnipeg office of Canadian Pacific Telegraphs was a combination of vast space, strange noises, and a high level of human activity. It was located immediately above the CPR ticket office on the corner of Portage and Main. To the insiders this was known as a "commercial" office ...
Prairie monuments: a video history of Oakville, Manitoba.(Gazette)
Oct 01, 2008; ... When most people hear the name Oakville, they immediately think of the large Ontario city of that name. However, my Oakville is actually located halfway between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, just three kilometers south of the number one highway. Although many people have never ...
Commemorating Margaret Newton.(Gazette)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On 17 July 2008 in Portage La Prairie Mr. Brian Pallister, Member of Parliament for Portage-Lisgar, on behalf of Environment Minister John Baird, unveiled a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque commemorating Margaret Newton. "Our ...
Manitoba's war on wildlife.(Gazette)
Oct 01, 2008; ... It was inevitable, as European-style agriculture was imposed on the prairie ecosystem starting in the 1800s, that human interests would come into conflict with those of wild animals. Manitoba's Municipal Act, first enacted in 1873, instructed municipalities to pass by-laws "for the ...
Roblin's Knox Presbyterian Church.(Gazette)
Oct 01, 2008; ... There exists in Roblin an old church. It was lovingly built by good-hearted volunteers and has stood for a hundred years, serving the community well. They would be pleased, those long gone pioneers, whose descendents still labour to care for their proud old building. They came ...
In search of buffalo hair cloth.(Gazette)
Oct 01, 2008; ... When we think of warm clothing in the early Red River Settlement, what comes to mind is probably capots, coats made from Hudson's Bay Company blankets. Few people are aware that families in Red River spun and wove their own cloth, some of it from bison "wool" or hair. Although there are ...
Michael Payne, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Michael Payne, The Fur Trade in Canada: An Illustrated History Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 2004, 96 pages. ISBN 9781550288438, $24.95 (paperback). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As Michael Payne observes in his introduction, it is not easy to ...
Donna G. Sutherland, Nahoway: A Distant Voice.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Donna G. Sutherland, Nahoway: A Distant Voice. Petersfield, Manitoba: White Buffalo Books, 2008, 400 pages. ISBN 9781552382271, $44.95 (paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Nahoway: A Distant Voice is a unique, deeply personal and emotional ...
J. M. Bumsted, St. John's College: Faith and Education in Western Canada.
Oct 01, 2008; ... J. M. Bumsted, St. John's College: Faith and Education in Western Canada Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2006, 224 pages. ISBN 9780887556920, $24.95 (paperback). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I can think of no one better suited to writing the ...
Christina Penner, Widows of Hamilton House.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Christina Penner, Widows of Hamilton House Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2008, 240 pages. ISBN 9781894283847, $29.95 (hardcover). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Widows of Hamilton House is a literary novel about love and loss by Christina Penner ....
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road.
Oct 01, 2008; ... Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road Toronto: Penguin Group Canada, 2008, 368 pages. ISBN 9780143056959, $20.00 (paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In his debut novel Three Day Road, Joseph Byoden tells a powerful and dramatic story of two Cree men from ...
"One of our own": ethnicity politics and the medicalization of childbirth in Manitoba.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... By 1895, the process of medicalizing childbirth was well underway in North America. It was characterized by an increase in physician-attended births, increased reliance on medical technology and science, and a slow but steady decline in midwifery. In fact, by the end of the nineteenth ...
Movie exhibition in Manitoba: the case of J. A. Schuberg.(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... Exhibiting motion pictures as a commercial enterprise in North America dates from 23 April 1896, when Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins introduced Thomas A. Edison's "latest marvel," the Vitascope, at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, located at 6th Avenue and West 24th Street, New York ...
James McKay (1828-1879): Metis trader, guide, interpreter and MLA.(Gazette)(Biography)
Jun 01, 2008; ... James McKay was a unique individual, but he was also representative of his time: his life and career illustrate both the halcyon days of the western fur trade and its twilight time, as well as the attempts by Metis commercial and political leaders to adapt to the rapid changes that ...
A dominion land survey map of the Red River Valley.(Gazette: emapitoba)(Report)
Jun 01, 2008; ... Introduction Modern air travellers are well acquainted with the patchwork quilt that characterizes the landscape of southern Manitoba and indeed the prairie west. But what did this region look like a century and a half ago? An objective of my doctoral dissertation was to ...
A Memoir of old St. Paul's College.(Gazette)
Jun 01, 2008; ... I returned to my room one day after class and found a note pinned to the door. "Please come to the rector's office." This was my introduction to Father Sutton, a brisk, florid-faced, no-nonsense type who moved quickly and gave the impression of always being in a rush. There was no ...