Manitoba History articles from March 2002

Manitoba History archives from March 2002

"An immense hold in the public estimation:" the first quarter century of Hockey in Manitoba, 1886-1911.
March 22, 2002... Just before Christmas in 1893 the Manitoba Free Press ran a special article on winter sports. It contained the observation that although hockey had been established only recently in Winnipeg, it had achieved already an "immense hold in the...

On stage: theatre and theatres in early Winnipeg.
March 22, 2002... The anomalous fact is that the theater, so called, can flourish in barbarism, but that any drama worth speaking of can develop but in the air of civilization. Henry James (1843-1916); Letter, 1916 In 1870 there were only about one...

"The biggest day Winnipeg has ever seen:" the Northwest field force returns from the front. (Gazette).
March 22, 2002... For five days in July, 1885 Winnipeg welcomed several thousand soldiers returning from service in the Northwest Rebellion. Three battalions--the 92nd Winnipeg Light Infantry, the 90th Winnipeg Rifles (the "Little Black Devils"), and the...

Keeper of the Wild: The Life of Ernest Oberholtzer.
March 22, 2002... Joe Paddock, Keeper of the Wild: The Life of Ernest Oberholtzer. Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001. Cloth. Illus. 32 pp. ISBN-0-87351-409-2. There are some individuals in whom modesty, confidence and curiosity cohere in...

Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History.(three books on Canadian women's history)
March 22, 2002... Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne (eds.), Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000, ISBN: 0774807946, $85.00. Orpha E. Galloway (ed.), Women of the War Years: Stories of...

Lord Strathcona: A Biography Of Donald Alexander Smith.
March 22, 2002... Donna McDonald, Lord Strathcona: A Biography Of Donald Alexander Smith. Toronto & Oxford: Dundurn Press, 1996, 600 pp., illus. ISBN:1-55002-266-0, $34.99 Cdn. It was for too long something of a national embarrassment that we had no...

Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940.
March 22, 2002... Maureen K. Lux, Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940, Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2001, ISBN 0802047289 $50.00 Most Canadians hold our health care system in high...

Mackenzie King and the Prairie West.
March 22, 2002... Robert A. Wardhaugh, Mackenzie King and the Prairie West. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 328 pp. ISBN 0802047335, $55.00. Canadian academics continue to be intrigued, if not fascinated, by William Lyon...