Manitoba History back issues from September 2003:
Western Canadian fur trade sites and the iconography of public memory.
Sep 22, 2003; ... Fur trade sites such as Lower Fort Garry, Fort Langley, Fort Edmonton and Fort William attract several hundred thousand visitors every year--cumulatively far more people than will ever read scholarly or even popular histories of the fur trade or sit through a university seminar on Western ...
Manitoba bibliography/02.
Sep 22, 2003 ... Books: Angel, Michael, Preserving the sacred: historical perspectives on the Ojibwa Midewiwin (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002). Bedard, Armand, Un reve en heritage (Saint-Boniface: Plaines, 2002). Blanchard, J., ed., A thousand miles of ...
Doctor beyond the end of steel.(Gazette)
Sep 22, 2003; ... The building of the railway to Hudson Bay began in the summer of 1908. Prior to World War I the line was cleared and graded almost to Port Nelson at the mouth of the Nelson River. During the war, however, construction slowed, stopped and finally some of the steel was torn up and sent to ...
The Sherritt-Gordon mine strike of 1947.(Gazette)
Sep 22, 2003; ... In the late summer of 1947 Winnipeg newspapers were proclaiming the creation of two dominions on the Indian Continent, the engagement of the Princess Elizabeth and the preparations for the Royal Wedding. On August 13th 1947 both the Winnipeg Free Press and The Winnipeg Tribune published a ...
The quality of friendship: Andrew McDermot and George Simpson.(Gazette)
Sep 22, 2003; ... Friendship has many degrees. Ranging from acquaintance to deep kinship, it encompasses a huge swath of human emotional interchange but at core keeps one aspect, a bond of affection. Beyond that bond may lie anything from rivalry to close co-operation, self sacrifice to patronisation, ...
Daniel Stone (ed.) Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg, 1905-1960.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2003; ... (Winnipeg: Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, 2003) pp 224, illus., ISBN 0969 125666, $25.00. Academics love to damn collections of essays, conference proceedings and other such compilations with the simple descriptive phrase, "these offerings are of uneven quality." We ...
Paul Hackett, A Very Remarkable Sickness: Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670 to 1846.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2003; ... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. $24.95, 313 pp. Illus. ISBN 0-88755-659-0. It has been twenty years since anthropologist Henry Dobyns published his controversial book Their Number Become Thinned in which he argued that Old World diseases spread throughout the North ...
Michael Angel, Preserving the Sacred: Historical Perspectives on the Ojibwa Midewiwin.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2003; ... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. xiv, 260 pp., 3 maps, 11 illus., notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0887556574, $24.95. Preserving the Sacred is an excellent and rigorous historical analysis of the role of the Midewiwin in Ojibwa culture and society as ...
Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Natalia Aponiuk (eds.), Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2003; ... (Calgary: Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2001), 251 pp., ISBN 0-9683327-1-4, $15.00 paper, $20.00 cloth. Since Confederation the central institutions of Canada have been concerned with creating citizens who subscribe to some central though as yet poorly identified ideals of what is ...