Manitoba History articles from February 2008

Manitoba History archives from February 2008

"Apostle of Anarchy:" Emma Goldman's first visit to Winnipeg in 1907 (1).(Winnipeg, Manitoba)
February 1, 2008... Emma Goldman visited and lectured in Winnipeg on five separate occasions: first in 1907, twice in 1908, again in 1927, and finally in late-1939, just five months before her death on 14 May 1940. (2) The Lithuanian-born Jewish revolutionary and...

Public service broadcasting and Winnipeg listeners in the 1930s.(Winnipeg, Manitoba)(Essay)
February 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Radio broadcasting began in Canada in the early 1920s under the auspices of private enterprise. A mixture of department stores, newspapers, electrical retailers and entrepreneurs established and built up about eighty...

Commemorating the construction of the Hudson Bay Railway.(Gazette)
February 1, 2008... Parks Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba On 21 September 2007, at the VIA Rail Station in The Pas, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada unveiled a plaque commemorating the national historic significance of construction of the...

Picture the map: an online cartographic collection of Manitoba history using "Flickr".(Gazette)
February 1, 2008... Manitoba has a rich legacy of cartographic material, printed throughout the progression from Rupert's Land to Postage Stamp Province to Gateway to the West. While the cartographic material is numerous, its location is scattered throughout many...

The Murder Oak: a tale of tragedy and justice.(Gazette)
February 1, 2008... The sandy ridges on the landscape south of Delta Marsh provide ideal growing conditions for bur oak, Manitoba's only native oak tree. While thousands of these bur oaks grow throughout the area, a lone oak, visible for miles, is unique. The...

The Nor'Wester comes to Red River.(Gazette: Documents & Archives)
February 1, 2008... In late September 1859, William Coldwell and William Buckingham traveled from Toronto to St. Paul, Minnesota. From there, they planned to travel to the Red River Settlement to start a newspaper, The Nor'Wester. The enterprising journalists...

J. W. Chafe: Winnipeg's renaissance man.(Gazette)(James Warren Chafe of Winnipeg, Manitoba)(Biography)
February 1, 2008... James Warren Chafe went by many names. To his team mates on Winnipeg's Shamrock Baseball Club in the 1920s, he was "Chick" Chafe--a pitcher with an astonishing "roundhouse" curve. To young CJRC radio listeners from 1942 until 1947, he was...

Frederick Philip Grove: reexamining a prominent Prairie writer.(Critical essay)
February 1, 2008... He who can honestly say, "I meant to do this or that and did it," very likely did not pitch his aim very high. I have met many men in my life who have done things and whose names are consequently known far beyond the confines of their country....

Dark Storm Moving West.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Dark Storm Moving West by Barbara Belyea Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007, 202 pages. ISBN 9781552381991, $49.95 (paperback). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A brinkman, Barbara Belyea prefers polarization: rather than build...

Over Canadian Trails: F. P. Grove in New Letters and Documents.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Over Canadian Trails: F. P. Grove in New Letters and Documents, selected and edited by Klaus Martens Wurzburg: Konigshausen and Neumann GmbH, 2007, 662 pages. ISBN 9783826035968, 58.00 [euro]. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over...

Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives by Deidre Simmons Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, 360 pages. ISBN 9780773532915, $80.00 (cloth). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies by Cliff White and E. J. (Ted) Hart Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007, 312 pages. ISBN 9781552382370, $69.95 (paper). [ILLUSTRATION...