Manitoba History articles from February 2006

Manitoba History archives from February 2006

Salt-making in Manitoba.
February 1, 2006... Salt has played an important role in the development of human history. In fact, no substance other than water has been used with such regularity as salt. For example, its use as a condiment and agent in "... cleaning, bleaching, dyeing,...

Norman Criddle: pioneer entomologist of the prairies.(Biography)
February 1, 2006... The Department of Entomology at the University of Manitoba has a small meeting room in which, from time to time, important decisions are made. As if to remind those meeting that they may be answerable to their predecessors, the walls are...

A promise of redemption: the Soeurs du Bon Pasteur and delinquent girls in Winnipeg, 1911-1948.(Gazette)
February 1, 2006... In 1911, five French-speaking nuns of the Soeurs du Bon Pasteur order left Montreal and came to Winnipeg to work with delinquent girls. Despite anti-Catholic sentiment in the province, their establishment in the prairie city was facilitated by...

The Broadway Site of the University of Manitoba: Origins and Demise.(Gazette)
February 1, 2006... The University of Manitoba was created in 1877 in the federated form similar to the University of London with Colleges. These colleges included St. Boniface, St. John's and Manitoba and, from 1888, Wesley. Initially, the Colleges provided all...

A Union of Manitoba Municipalities.(Gazzette)
February 1, 2006... In early March 1905, the Council of the Rural Municipality of Macdonald met for its monthly meeting. One of the items they considered was an invitation from John W. Fleming, the mayor of Brandon, to attend a meeting ten days hence, the object...

National commemoration for Hangar No. 1 of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Brandon, Manitoba.
February 1, 2006... One of Canada's most important contributions to the Allied effort during the Second World War was the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). Under the plan, Canada trained more than 130,000 Commonwealth airmen at Canadian air bases....

Digital mapping of historical data.
February 1, 2006... Over the past few years there has been a growing interest in the use of historic maps within computer applications, including, standalone imaging software, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Internet-based visualization programs. From an...

Citizenship ceremony, 10 January 1947.(Gazette: Documents & Archives)
February 1, 2006... Introduction On 1 January 1947 the Canadian Citizenship Act, the legal basis for citizenship in Canada, came into effect. To celebrate the passage of the Act, politicians, diplomats, and other officials carried out citizenship ceremonies...

An interview with Graham Spry, 1972.(Gazette)(Interview)
February 1, 2006... One of the most important intellectual activists of the twentieth century, Graham Spry was born in St. Thomas, Ontario on February 20, 1900. Raised in a military family, Spry would eventually work as an editor, reporter, war correspondent,...

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... Dear Editor, I write in response to A Review Essay (p. 43-46) by Edward A. Jerome and Ruth Swan in the October 2005 issue of Manitoba History. I felt a strong need to respond to their negative review of my book Peguis, A Noble Friend, and...

Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg 1912 Diary of a City.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg 1912 Diary of a City Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005, 260 pages. ISBN: 0887556841, $24.95 (paperback). Winnipeg is one of the most historically-rich cities in Canada. Prior to contact, the forks of the...

Gisli Palsson, Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Gisli Palsson, Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson Translated from the Icelandic by Keneva Kunz Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005, 374 pages. ISBN: 0887551793, $39.95 (hardcover) In recent years, the...

Bob Irving, (ed.), Blue and Gold: 75 Years of Blue Bomber Glory.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Bob Irving, (ed.), Blue & Gold: 75 Years of Blue Bomber Glory Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2005, 149 pages. ISBN: 1894283597, $39.95 (hardcover). From inauspicious beginnings in 1930 as the Winnipeg "Winnipegs" of the Western...

Peter Geller, Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Peter Geller, Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45 Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004, 258 pages. ISBN: 0774809272, $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 0774809280, $29.95 (paperback). For many...

Stephen Clarkson, The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Stephen Clarkson, The Big Red Machine: How the Liberal Party Dominates Canadian Politics Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005, 352 pages. ISBN: 0774811951, $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 077481196X, $24.95 (paperback). With the...

Carol Matas, Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Carol Matas, Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein Markham, Ontario: Scholastic Canada, 2005, 199 pages. ISBN: 0439969468 $14.99 (hardcover). This book is part of a series called "Dear Canada" by Scholastic Canada. The...

Renate Eigenbrod, Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Immigrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada.(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Renate Eigenbrod, Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Immigrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005, 274 pages. ISBN 0887556817, $24.95 (paperback). In Travelling Knowledges, Eigenbrod...

Bela Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West: The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association 1963-2004.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2006... Bela Szabados, Once Upon a Time in the West: The Making of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association 1963-2004 Kelowna: Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005, 153 pages. ISBN: 920980837, $18.95 (paperback). This slim volume recounts...