Manitoba History articles from June 2008

Manitoba History archives from June 2008

"One of our own": ethnicity politics and the medicalization of childbirth in Manitoba.(Report)
June 1, 2008... By 1895, the process of medicalizing childbirth was well underway in North America. It was characterized by an increase in physician-attended births, increased reliance on medical technology and science, and a slow but steady decline in...

Movie exhibition in Manitoba: the case of J. A. Schuberg.(Report)
June 1, 2008... Exhibiting motion pictures as a commercial enterprise in North America dates from 23 April 1896, when Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins introduced Thomas A. Edison's "latest marvel," the Vitascope, at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, located at...

James McKay (1828-1879): Metis trader, guide, interpreter and MLA.(Gazette)(Biography)
June 1, 2008... James McKay was a unique individual, but he was also representative of his time: his life and career illustrate both the halcyon days of the western fur trade and its twilight time, as well as the attempts by Metis commercial and political...

A dominion land survey map of the Red River Valley.(Gazette: emapitoba)(Report)
June 1, 2008... Introduction Modern air travellers are well acquainted with the patchwork quilt that characterizes the landscape of southern Manitoba and indeed the prairie west. But what did this region look like a century and a half ago? An objective of...

A Memoir of old St. Paul's College.(Gazette)
June 1, 2008... I returned to my room one day after class and found a note pinned to the door. "Please come to the rector's office." This was my introduction to Father Sutton, a brisk, florid-faced, no-nonsense type who moved quickly and gave the impression of...

Manitoba's Government House at 125.(Gazette)
June 1, 2008... Since 1883, the stately three-storey mansion known as Government House has been the residence of Manitoba's Lieutenant Governors. Located at 10 Kennedy Street in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, it has housed twenty of the province's...

HSI: Historical Scene Investigation.(Gazette: 1000 words)
June 1, 2008... This is the first--and probably the only--episode of HSI: Historical Scene Investigation. Patterned on the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, its objective is to show how much information can be extracted from an historical...

Commemorating the first railway in Western Canada.(Gazette)
June 1, 2008... The Dominion of Canada was still quite young when it spread its wings and reached for the Pacific. But purchasing the Hudson's Bay Company's territories and bringing Manitoba and British Columbia into Confederation were only the first steps to...

Arok Wolvengrey, editor, Wawiyatacimowinisa: Funny Little Stories.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Arok Wolvengrey, editor, Wawiyatacimowinisa: Funny Little Stories Regina: University of Regina Publications, 2007, 110 pages, ISBN 0889771855, $12.95 (paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An interesting feature of Cree literature is its...

Athanasius McVay and June Dutka, editors, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church: Celebrating 100 Years--Together for Tomorrow.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Athanasius McVay and June Dutka, editors, St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church: Celebrating 100 Years--Together for Tomorrow Winnipeg: St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church, 2006, 348 pages, ISBN 0973971312, $50.00 (paperback) ...

Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Rosemary Hill, God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Toronto: Allen Lane, 2007, 624 pages, ISBN 9780713994995, $40.00 (hardback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some seventy years ago, M. S. Osborne, writing on the...

Patrick C. Douaud, editor, The Western Metis: Profile of a People.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Patrick C. Douaud, editor, The Western Metis: Profile of a People Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 2007, 326 pages, ISBN 9780889771994, $29.95 (paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This book brings together...

Abel Watetch, Payepot and His People.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Abel Watetch, Payepot and His People Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 2007, 64 pages, ISBN 0889772010, $14.97 (paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From the closing decades of the nineteenth century to the...

Mary S. Scriver, Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Mary S. Scriver, Bronze Inside and Out: A Biographical Memoir of Bob Scriver Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007, 400 pages, ISBN 9781552382271, $44.95 (paperback) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Written by his wife, Bronze Inside and...