Manitoba History articles from March 2003

Manitoba History archives from March 2003

"When the Caribou Failed": Ilia Tolstoy in the Barren Lands, 1928-1929.
March 22, 2003... 'Nobody knows the way of the wind and the caribou.' Old Chipewyan Proverb Few pockets of the Canadian landscape have resisted attempts at familiarization as much as the great swath of land north of the Churchill River, composing parts...

Small farmers, big business, and the battle over the "Prairie Sentinels." (Gazette).
March 22, 2003... The most recent National Historic Site in Manitoba ranks among the largest in Canada's repertoire, if only in the number of board feet (BFM) of lumber involved. The Inglis Elevator Row contains at least 500,000 BFM. When the elevators were...

The churches of early Winnipeg.
March 22, 2003... The story of the establishment of churches in Winnipeg can be traced back to the early days of the nineteenth century. The Scots philanthropist and Hudson's Bay Company shareholder Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk, planned to open the...

Catharine M. Mastin (ed.) The Group of Seven in Western Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Essays by Catharine M. Mastin, Robert Stacey, Marcia Crosby, Liz Wylie, Anna Hudson, Ann Davis. Toronto: Key Porter Books in association with the Glenbow Museum, 2002. 1-55263-439-6 $ 60.00. Catharine M. Mastin is the General Editor of a...

Victor P. Lytwyn, Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. xiv, 289 pp. 9 maps, 8 charts, 9 illus., notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0887556515,. $24.95. Muskekowuck Athinuwick is comprehensive and interesting and clearly the work of a mature scholar....