Manitoba History articles from March 1996

Manitoba History archives from March 1996

Horticulture in Manitoba history.
March 22, 1996... For most of Manitoba's history, horticulture and gardening have been central to the experience of its peoples. We use the term "horticulture" to signify the cultivation of plants, flowers, and trees, as well as their scientific study....

Manitoba's first farmers.
March 22, 1996... Most people believe that the early pioneer homesteaders, the Selkirk settlers, were Manitoba's first farmers. However, several centuries before the arrival of the Selkirk settlers, the land was already being worked by Aboriginal or First...

Greening of the West: horticulture on the Canadian prairies, 1870-1930.
March 22, 1996... The year 1870, pivotal in so many aspects of Manitoba's history, was decisive to the future development of horticulture in the West. With the creation of the first of the prairie provinces, early traditions of small-scale gardening for...

"Greening of the West": one geranium at a time.
March 22, 1996... How many on us can remember the potted geranium growing on our grandmother's window ledge? This issue of Manitoba History highlights a number of major initiatives in the rapid spread of horticulture across the prairie provinces. But...

"Most lovely and picturesque city in all of Canada": the origins of Winnipeg's public park system.
March 22, 1996... Since the dawn of civilization recreation space has been an integral part of urban life yet historians have generally overlooked its importance in meeting what is now generally acknowledged to be one of society's fundamental biological needs....

Rise and fall of the Manitoba railway garden.
March 22, 1996... Some say that the Canadian railway garden was invented in Killarney, Manitoba. Others say Montreal. Both are right--and wrong. Certainly, it can be proved that by the 1890s the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) had seized the initiative...

Border vision: the International Peace Garden.
March 22, 1996... The great war of 1918 was once described as having been the war to end all wars. While we eventually came to realize the fallacy of this statement one significant result inspired by this idea is still evident today. The International Peace...

Roads of remembrance.
March 22, 1996... In November 1918, Canadians turned from waging war to the duty of commemorating the dead. This traditionally meant statuary: thousands of statues, obelisks, cairns, steles, shafts, cenotaphs, and crosses were erected in Canada in the years...

Place of memory: some recent publications on landscape history (Landscape and memory; The power of place; Garden voices; The King's privy garden at Hampton Court Palace).
March 22, 1996... Relationships with the land have always been a strong and integral part of the Canadian experience. From the mnemonic traditions of Aboriginal peoples through the painted landscapes of the Group of Seven to the geographical determinism of the...