Manitoba History articles from March 1999

Manitoba History archives from March 1999

Sovereignty and the Aboriginal nations of Rupert's Land.
March 22, 1999... Kent McNeil Osgoode Hall Law School York University Toronto Where the rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada are concerned, history and law are inseparable. Lawyers working on Aboriginal claims ignore history at their...

"Infamous proposal:" prairie Indian reserve land and soldier settlement after World War I.
March 22, 1999... Sarah Carter Department of History University of Calgary The Soldier Settlement Board (SSB) acquired over 85,000 acres of Indian reserve land in Western Canada for non-Aboriginal soldier settlement in the years immediately after...

George Flett, Presbyterian missionary to the Ojibwa at Okanase.
March 22, 1999... Alvina Block Winnipeg On 15 July 1875 William Wagner, a surveyor for the reserves of Treaty Two in southwestern Manitoba, visited Okanase (now know as Keeseekoowenin) Reserve. He reported to David Laird, Superintendent of the North...

Hudson Bay Railway Survey, 1910-1911: a memoir pt1.
March 22, 1999... Written in 1967, this memoir by William Harold Hunt recounts the author's exploits as a surveyor over half a century earlier on the planned route of the Hudson Bay Railway in Manitoba. Born in 1884 near Lennoxville, in the eastern townships of...

Servants of the honourable company: work, discipline, and conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879.
March 22, 1999... Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997, v, 319 pp, ISBN 0-19-541296-6. For those few of us still informed by historical materialism, Burley's Servants of the Honourable Company, a social history of the skilled and unskilled contract...

River road: essays on Manitoba and prairie history.
March 22, 1999... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1996, xii, 246 pp, illus., ISBN 0-88755-639-6. A few weeks ago as I was helping my son with a school assignment I had occasion to consult one of my old school textbooks. I was not able to find the...

Agrarian revolt in western Canada.
March 22, 1999... Regina: Great Plains Research Centre, University of Regina, 1997, ISBN 0-88977106-5. It is interesting to return to a classic text -- a work that is required reading for the student of the farm movement which so shaped the western grain...

Cartoon Charlie: the life and art of animation pioneer Charles Thorson.
March 22, 1999... Great Plains Publishers, 1998,222pp.,illus., ISBN 0-96978049-4. By the early 20th century the language of popular humour had become quite accessible. Work by cartoon masters, such as Richard Felton Outcault (1863-1928), revered for his...

Forging the prairie west.
March 22, 1999... Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. xii, 212 pp. Maps, 166 illus., notes, bibliography, index, $29.95. ISBN 0-19-541049-1. Forging the Prairie West is an illustrated survey history of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and one of a...

Winnipeg: gateway to the west.
March 22, 1999... Winnipeg, Great Plains Publishers, 1998, 233pp, illus., ISBN 1-89428300-7. Whereas ten years ago it would have been difficult to find a pictorial history of Winnipeg, now they are something of a cottage industry. Christopher Dafoe's...