Manitoba History articles from September 1996

Manitoba History archives from September 1996

Down on the farm: reading Jeffery Taylor's Fashioning farmers: ideology, agricultural knowledge and the Manitoba Farm Movement.
September 22, 1996... David Monod History Department Wilfrid Laurier University The interest shown by turn-of-the-century bureaucrats and educators in agriculture is certainly curious. No other field of endeavour drew so much investigation,...

"Give us our due!" How Manitoba women won the vote.
September 22, 1996... Manitoba was the first province in Canada to grant women the right to vote: this year, 1996, marks the eightieth anniversary of this signal advance in the on-going struggle for women's rights. This article tells the story of the achievement,...

Anti-Semitism in Manitoba in the 1930s and 40s.
September 22, 1996... The following essay by Jonathan Fine of Kelvin High School won the Manitoba Historical Society's 1995 Dr. Edward C. Shaw "Young Historians" Award. Anti-semitism, an expression of hostility towards Jews, has existed for hundreds of years....

Drum songs: glimpses of Dene history.
September 22, 1996... Kerry Able, Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xii, 339, maps, ill. ISBN 0-7735-0992-5. As historians' time goes--to say nothing of Dene time--it was only yesterday (in the...

O little town: remembering life in a prairie village.
September 22, 1996... Harlo L. Jones. O Little Town: Remembering Life in a Prairie Village. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1995. Pp. 236. ill. ISBN 0-88755-633-7. Memoirs of boyhood have come to form a small, yet distinctive, genre in the literature of...

Fur trade revisited: selected papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991.
September 22, 1996... Jennifer S.H. Brown, W.J. Eccles, and Donald P. Heldman, eds. The Fur Trade Revisited: Selected Papers of the Sixth North American Fur Trade Conference, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1991. East Lansing and Mackinac Island: Michigan State...

Ottawa at war: the Grant Dexter Memoranda, 1939-1945.
September 22, 1996... Frederick Gibson and Barbara Robertson, eds., Ottawa at War: The Grant Dexter Memoranda 1939-1945, Winnipeg: The Manitoba Record Society Publications, Vol. XI, 1994. Pp. xxviii, 513. ISBN 0-9692101-4-0. Let us be honest right at the...

Voyages in search of a northwest passage 1741-1747 v2: the voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747.
September 22, 1996... William Barr and Glyndwr Williams (editors). Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741-1747. Volume II: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1995. Second series No. 181. Pp. xvi + 393. ISBN...

In subordination: professional women 1870-1970.
September 22, 1996... Mary Kinnear, In Subordination: Professional Women 1870-1970, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. Pp. 245. ISBN 0-7735-1279-9. Mary Kinnear, professor of history at the University of Manitoba, begins her book with...

Rudy Wiebe and the historicity of the word.
September 22, 1996... Penny van Toorn, Rudy Wiebe and the Historicity of the Word. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1995. Pp. 256. ISBN 0-88864-265-2. Popular western Canadian historians have long claimed Rudy Wiebe as one of their own. His novels, The...

Cypress Hills: the land and its people.
September 22, 1996... Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner. The Cypress Hills: The Land And Its People. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 1994. Pp. 136, maps, illustrations. ISBN 1-895830-02-8. The Cypress Hills, which stretch across the south-western corner of...

Views from Fort Battleford: constructed visions of an Anglo-Canadian West.
September 22, 1996... Walter Hildebrandt. Views from Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 1994. Pp. x, 129. ISBN 0-88977-086-7. By means of a study of the events in the Fort Battleford region in...

Turmoil and triumph: the controversial railway to Hudson Bay.
September 22, 1996... Ian Bickle, Turmoil and Triumph: The Controversial Railway to Hudson Bay Calgary: Temeron Books Inc., Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 1995. Pp. 224, ill. ISBN 1-55059-107-X. Turmoil undoubtedly, however, the triumph referred to in the title --...