Manitoba History articles from March 2000

Manitoba History archives from March 2000

"Storehouses of the good God:" Aborignial peoples and freshwater fisheries in Manitoba.
March 22, 2000... The recent conflict between Mi'kmaq communities and lobster fishermen that followed the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R. v. Marshall, was an expression of fundamental disagreement about the exercise of Treaty and Aboriginal rights in...

Northern Manitoba treaty party, 1949.
March 22, 2000... It was well known that Native Indian people were very susceptible to tuberculosis. But prior to 1948 little had been done to look for and treat this disease among these people in the remote areas of northern Manitoba. This was about to change....

Unequal justice: the Metis in (W.R.) O'Donoghue's raid of 1871.
March 22, 2000... We have passed through a frightful crisis and have escaped by the skin of our teeth.... The danger was not from without, but within.... But if 200 French Halfbreeds had joined them on the frontier, we should have had a rough time of it.(1) ...

West: regional ambitions, national debates, global age.
March 22, 2000... Gerald Friesen, The West: Regional Ambitions, National Debates, Global Age. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1999. Pp. xviii, 189, ISBN 0-14-028421-4, $19.99. "The West is a national issue?" wondered a surprised Gerald Friesen when eastern...

Heritage crusade and the spoils of history.
March 22, 2000... David Lowenthal, The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 338 pp. ISBN 0 521 635624. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the word heritage appeared in a new guise in the western...

Warriors of the king: prairie Indians in World War I.
March 22, 2000... L. James Dempsey, Warriors of the King: Prairie Indians in World War I. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1999, 123 pp. Illus. ISBN 0-88977-101-14, $19.95. Warriors of the King, by L. James Dempsey, is a study of Prairie Indians'...

Dictionary of Manitoba biography.
March 22, 2000... J.M. Bumsted, Dictionary of Manitoba Biography. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999; 304 pp. paperback $24.95 ISBN 0-88755-662-0; hardcover $55.00 ISBN 0-88755-169-6. Anyone looking for biographical information about Canadians has...

Full-orbed Christianity: the Protestant churches and social welfare in Canada, 1900-1940.
March 22, 2000... Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1996, ISBN 0773513973, $29.95. The claim registered on the dust...

Dictionary of Canadian biography v14, 1911-1920.
March 22, 2000... Ramsay Cook and Jean Hamelin, general editors, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XIV, 1911-1920. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, 1247 pp. The impressive tradition set by the Dictionary of Canadian Biography continues...

North-West Company: frontier merchants.
March 22, 2000... Florida Town, The North-West Company: Frontier Merchants. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1999. 120 pp. Illus. ISBN 1-895642-42-6. The North West Company: Frontier Merchants is a commissioned history. Earl Boon, a former vice-president of the...