Manitoba History articles from March 1997

Manitoba History archives from March 1997

Rev. William Cockran: the man and the image.
March 22, 1997... No history of Red River would be complete without an analysis of the life of the Reverend William Cockran, whose influential ministry spanned the formative years of the settlement from 1825 to 1865. (1) Not surprisingly, a number of conflicting...

Peter Rindisbacher: new discoveries (Swiss artist painted the Red River settlement in the 1820s).
March 22, 1997... Some of the most important visual records of the early Red River Settlement are found in the images of Peter Rindisbacher, the talented young Swiss artist who sketched and painted the settlement in the 1820s. Many readers of Manitoba History...

Interview with World War I veteran Evan Wales Morgan.
March 22, 1997... Raised on a farm near Swan River, Evan Wales Morgan, who will turn one hundred years of age in September, is one of the last of a handful of surviving Canadian veterans of World War I. Recalling his long and eventful life, Mr. Morgan spoke to...

Scratching the ancient ground of Manitoba's Interlake: Stonewall and its Quarry Park.
March 22, 1997... Early Settlement of the Stonewall Area At the time of the 1885 Metis Resistance around Batoche, Saskatchewan, an event long-associated with the name of Louis Riel, a detachment went to the front from the Rockwood District of Manitoba's...

Alexander Kennedy Isbister (1822-1883).
March 22, 1997... Alexander Kennedy Isbister's place in the history of Canada has not been forgotten, but the range of his contributions was quite astonishing. Geology is not normally associated with his name, owing to the important role he played, from distant...

Samuel J. Jackson (1848-1942).
March 22, 1997... Samuel Jackson was born in Stradbailey, Queen's County, Ireland in 1848. As a two year old he was brought to the Brampton area west of Toronto by his father. By 1867 the young Jackson had gained commercial experience in Norwich and then...

Machray scandal.
March 22, 1997... On Wednesday, August 24, 1932, Winnipeg newspapers carried a brief story, stating that shortages had been discovered in the trust accounts of the University of Manitoba. The next day it was reported that Winnipeg lawyer John A. Machray, the man...

atalohkana nesta tipacimowina: Cree legends and narratives from the West Coast of James Bay.
March 22, 1997... This volume is Publication 4 of the Algonquian Text Society series produced in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Manitoba. It is a major contribution to the preservation and documentation of Cree language and literature....

James McKay: a Metis builder of Canada.
March 22, 1997... The Hon. James McKay, as he is commonly known to distinguish him from the many other "James McKays" who lived in Rupert's Land, was the archetype Metis plainsman. According to the dustjacket of this biography from Pemmican Publications, he was...

Mennonites in Canada, 1939-1970.
March 22, 1997... In this book, Ted Regehr takes on a very difficult task -- to write a history of Canadian Mennonite life from 1939 to 1970. It is the third in a series originally commissioned in the mid-1960s by the Canadian Mennonite Historical Society, which...