Manitoba History articles from June 2007

Manitoba History archives from June 2007

Visioning Thanadelthur: shaping a Canadian icon (1).
June 1, 2007... Thanadelthur was a young Dene woman possibly from the Lake Athabasca-Great Slave Lake region who was captured in 1713 by Cree raiders. Today, she is usually considered to be Chipewyan, although that term was used in different ways during the...

The life and death of Matonabbee: fur trade and leadership among the Chipewyan, 1736-1782.
June 1, 2007... In March 1771, Matonabbee, an important leader among the Chipewyan Indians, found himself on the shores of Wholdaia Lake in what is now southeastern Northwest Territories. For the last four months, he had been escorting a young Englishman named...

Diverging identities and converging interests: corporate competition, desertion, and voyageur agency, 1815-1818.
June 1, 2007... I would warmly recommend to your notice the Canadians; these people I believe, are the best voyageurs in the world; they are spirited, enterprising, & extremely fond of the Country; they are easily commanded; never will you have any difficulty...

Long-term trends in the water quality of Killarney Lake.(Gazette)
June 1, 2007... In July 1882, John Rigby wrote from his home in the new prairie town of Killarney. About the lake that lay beside the town, he enthused: [Killarney] Lake is a beautiful sheet of water, clear as crystal and abounding with fish and...

Greetings from Winnipeg: views of a changing city.(Gazette)(City overview)
June 1, 2007... Postcards in the early part of the twentieth century were frequently used as a convenient vehicle to carry greetings and brief messages to friends and family living in other parts of Canada or in other countries. As an alternative to telephone...

Annie's war.(Gazette)(Personal account)
June 1, 2007... We met one summer day in 1953. I was a child of ten and Annie was a kindly, silver-haired, Great Aunt of mine, one of my Grandmother's four sisters. Unfortunately, I never knew my Grandmother Maud; she died the year before I was born. It was...

Psychic research in a Winnipeg family: reminiscences of Dr. Glen F. Hamilton.(Gazette)(Reprint)
June 1, 2007... I first learned of Dr. Glen Forrester Hamilton through the psychic research of his father, Dr. Thomas Glendenning Hamilton. TG, as Glen's father was affectionately known, engaged in a wide variety of studies in the psychic area during the...

Literary, Architectural, and Popular Approaches to the History of Winnipeg.(Review Essay)(Essay)
June 1, 2007... Even before Winnipeg had celebrated its first decade of existence Alexander Begg and Walter Nursey had already begun the process of telling the story of the city(1)--and thirteen decades later there is no sign that the propensity for writing...