Manitoba History articles from February 2007

Manitoba History archives from February 2007

To brew or not to brew: a brief history of beer in Canada.
February 1, 2007... "The story of beer is the story of Canada" (1) Beer has been a significant element in human history, including the history of Canada. Defined generally as an alcoholic beverage made from a malted grain (usually barley), water, possibly a...

Remembering John J. Conklin.(Biography)
February 1, 2007... In its early years Winnipeg was blessed with many outstanding newspapermen and journalists including John W. Dafoe of the Free Press, Robert L. Richardson and John Moncrieff of the Winnipeg Tribune, Mark E. Nichols of the Winnipeg Telegram,...

Memories of Fort Ellice.(Lost Transactions)(Personal account)
February 1, 2007... In 1881, Reverend A. B. Baird was about to embark on an adventure to the Canadian West. On his way to Edmonton, he passed through the HBC post of Fort Ellice, on which he reflected years later for this "Lost Transaction," presented to the...

National designation for William Hespeler: Parks Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba.(Brief biography)
February 1, 2007... On 19 February 2007, at Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall at the University of Winnipeg, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada unveiled a plaque commemorating William Hespeler. Entrepreneur, immigration official, Commissioner of Immigration and...

Victorian virtual reality.(Cover story)
February 1, 2007... I love historical photographs. But the vast majority of them leave me feeling, well, flat. I look at the world around me, and the slightly different versions seen by my two eyes are merged by my brain into a three-dimensional image that permits...

Bull in a China shop: making fiction at the archives.(Gazette)(writer Margaret Sweatman)(Speech)
February 1, 2007... The following is a transcript of the talk given by novelist, playwright, and poet Margaret Sweatman at the 42nd Sir John A. Macdonald Dinner held at the Fort Garry Hotel on 20 January 2007. Ms. Sweatman is the author of the novels Fox (set...

Macdonald papers at the archives of Manitoba.(Documents & Archives)(Sir John A. Macdonald and his son Sir Hugh John Macdonald)
February 1, 2007... Sir John A. Macdonald and his son Sir Hugh John Macdonald need no introduction to members of the Manitoba Historical Society. The father's memory is perpetuated by the Sir John A. Macdonald Fundraising Dinner held each January. Sir Hugh John's...

"Graven images of a closed society:" the Huron Hutterite colony, 1920s.
February 1, 2007... Hutterites first settled in Manitoba in 1919 when they abandoned their settlements in South Dakota and moved north to secure land in southern Alberta and in Manitoba close to Winnipeg. As German-speaking Anabaptists and pacifists who practised...

The architectural legacy of Charles H. Wheeler.(Gazette)
February 1, 2007... Charles Henry Wheeler was born on 23 April 1838 in Lutterworth, Leicestershire, in the west Midlands of England that includes the cities of Coventry and Birmingham. Lutterworth, with a population of about 2,400, was the Thursday market town and...

Manitoba bibliography 2005.(Gazette)(Bibliography)
February 1, 2007... BOOKS Arnason, David, and Mhari Mackintosh, The Imagined City: A Literary History of Winnipeg. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2005. Bailey, Raymond R., Tadpole to Little Frog (In a Big Pond): The Memoir of a Young Man Growing Up in...

Peter Kulchyski, Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Nunavut and Denendeh.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Peter Kulchyski, Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Nunavut and Denendeh Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2005, 312 pages. ISBN 0887556868, $26.95 (paperback). In this monograph, Peter Kulchyski analyses...

Jack Walker, Q.C., edited by Duncan Fraser, The Great Canadian Sedition Trials: The Courts and the Winnipeg General Strike, 1919-1920.(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Jack Walker, Q.C., edited by Duncan Fraser, The Great Canadian Sedition Trials: The Courts and the Winnipeg General Strike, 1919-1920 Winnipeg: Legal Research Institute of the University of Manitoba & Canadian Legal History Project, 2004, 244...

Virginia G. Berry, Taming the Frontier: Art and Women in the Canadian West 1880-1920.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Virginia G. Berry, Taming the Frontier: Art and Women in the Canadian West 1880-1920 Calgary & Winnipeg: Bayeux Arts Inc. & Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2005, 187 pages. ISBN 1896209556, $29.95 (paperback). For anyone researching the...

Dennis F. Johnson, York Boats of the Hudson's Bay Company: Canada's Inland Armada.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Dennis F. Johnson, York Boats of the Hudson's Bay Company: Canada's Inland Armada Calgary: Fifth House Ltd., 2006. 213 pages. ISBN-1897252005, $21.95 (paperback). An earlier version of this work, published by the Fort Garry Volunteer...

Heritage House Committee--Book Project Team, compiler, 54 West Gate: Stories of Ralph Connor House.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Heritage House Committee--Book Project Team, compiler, 54 West Gate: Stories of Ralph Connor House. Winnipeg: Friends of Ralph Connor House, Inc., 2005, 221 pages. ISBN-X25247, $30.00 (paperback). This book, described on its title page as...

Russ Gourluck, Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg's Portage Avenue.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Russ Gourluck, Going Downtown: A History of Winnipeg's Portage Avenue Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2006. 293 pages. ISBN-1894283651, $29.95 (paperback). Most any Winnipegger over the age of 30 has memories of excursions downtown to...

Hans Werner, Living Between Worlds: A History of Winkler.(Brief article)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... Hans Werner, Living Between Worlds: A History of Winkler Winkler: Winkler Heritage Society, 2006. 226 pages. ISBN-1553831101, $55.00 (hardcover). This community history breaks the story into three phases: the first section covers the...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2007... To the Editor: As a retired lawyer, I am interested to see that historians and others are still quoting the old joke - probably invented by suffragettes, and possibly by our own Nellie McClung: "No woman, idiot, lunatic or criminal shall...