Manitoba History articles from September 1997

Manitoba History archives from September 1997

Historical tour: Selkirk, Manitoba.
September 22, 1997... Wendy G. Smulan Department of Interior Design Faculty of Architecture University of Manitoba Studying architecture is one method of examining history, but in addition to architecture are the stories of people that make those...

Third force: returned soldiers in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
September 22, 1997... Uduak Idiong Kelvin High School The following essay was the winner of the Manitoba Historical Society's 1996 Edward C. Shaw "Young Historians" Award. Introduction Winnipeg, May 15, 1919 - Canada's third largest city, a...

Women of the First Nations: power, wisdom and strength.
September 22, 1997... The University of Manitoba Press, 1996. 204 pp. Women of the First Nations: Power, Wisdom and Strength had its inception at the "National Symposium on Aboriginal Women of Canada," University of Lethbridge, 19 October 1989. It is the...

Subjects or citizens? The Mennonite experience in Canada, 1870-1925.
September 22, 1997... University of Ottawa Press, 1994. Religions and Beliefs Series, No 2. Pp. x, 266, maps. ISBN 0-7766-0390-6. Half a century has passed since E.K. Francis's study of the Mennonite experience in Manitoba. That research, funded by the Manitoba...

Clothes off our back: a history of ACTWU 459.
September 22, 1997... (Manitoba Labour History Series). Winnipeg: ACTWU 459, 1995. 156 pp., ill. ISBN 0-9695258-6-9. The Clothes Off Our Back is an interesting and accessible history of Local 459 of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers's Union (ACTWU)....

Bedside matters: the transformation of Canadian nursing, 1900-1990.
September 22, 1997... Toronto. Oxford University Press. 1996 ISBN 0-19-541219-2. History cannot be rewritten but it can be re-examined. This is the thesis of Kathryn McPherson's book, "Bedside Matters." The book is a history of Canadian nursing, exploring in...