Manitoba History articles from September 1999

Manitoba History archives from September 1999

Dr. John Rae's telegraph survey: St. Paul, Minnesota to Quesnel, British Columbia, 1864.
September 1, 1999... The name of Dr John Rae will always be remembered for his discovery in the Arctic of the first oral accounts and the first tangible evidence of the fate of the missing Franklin expedition, for his reputation as an incomparable walker, on snow...

Hudson Bay Railway Survey, 1910-1911.
September 1, 1999... William Harold Hunt (1884-1976) wrote this memoir in 1967. It recounts his adventures as a surveyor on the planned route of the Hudson Bay Railway between May of 1910 and March of 1911. Part l, which appeared in the Spring/Summer 1999 issue of...

Commemorating Winnipeg's newest National Historic sites: the Exchange District and Union Bank Building.
September 1, 1999... On the 2nd of October of this year, at a ceremony held at Pantages Playhouse Theatre, plaques were unveiled marking the designation of two new national historic sites in Winnipeg -- the Exchange District and the Union (Royal) Bank Building on...

Through the architect's eyes: F.W. Simon surveys his masterwork - The Manitoba Legislative Building.
September 1, 1999... According to a French saying, Le hasard fait bien les choses -- "Chance arranges things well." The truth of this maxim was illustrated for me during a recent foray into the Legislative Library of Manitoba. While searching for material relating...

Lady Selkirk and the fur trade.
September 1, 1999... For many years, Lord Selkirk has been a heavily-researched historical figure. Historians and archivists have studied the Selkirk Papers to gain an understanding of the workings of Selkirk's relationship with the Hudson's Bay Company and various...

Female economy: women's work in a Prairie province, 1870-1970.
September 1, 1999... Mary Kinnear, A Female Economy: Women's Work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998, xiv, 212 pp., illus. ISBN 0-7735-1734-0.$55.00. To fully appreciate the significance of Mary Kinnear's book, A...

Profiles in dissent: the shaping of radical thought in the Canadian West.
September 1, 1999... Harry Gutkin and Mildred Gutkin, Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West. Edmonton: Newest Publishers Limited, 1997. ISBN 1-896-300081. $24.95. In a commentary on the Winnipeg General Strike in 1969 on the...

National crime: the Canadian government and the residential school system - 1879 to 1986.
September 1, 1999... John Milloy, A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System -- 1879 to 1986. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999. 462 pages, ISBN 0-88755646-9, $24.95 paperback, $55.00 cloth. For over a century...

Red River rebellion.
September 1, 1999... J.M. Bumsted, The Red River Rebellion, Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer, 1996, 359 pp. ISBN 0920486231, $19.95. There has been no lack of books and articles on the 1869 uprising of the Metis that ultimately brought about the entrance of Manitoba...

Today in history.
September 1, 1999... Bob Johnstone, Today in History. Revised edition. Toronto: Warwick Publishing, 1998. 388 pp. ISBN 1-894020-43-X. Bob Johnstone's popular, folksy approach to the telling of history is sure to kindle an interest in the past. The series of...

Double duty: the decisive first decade of the North West Mounted Police.
September 1, 1999... Jim Wallace, A Double Duty: The Decisive First Decade of the North West Mounted Police, Winnipeg: Bunker and Bunker Books, 1997. ISBN 0969903987. The title for Jim Wallace's book A Double Duty comes from Commissioner George A. French's...

Growing up in Manitoba.
September 1, 1999... Harold Draper, Growing up in Manitoba, Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1998, ISBN 0-88977-116-2, paper $9.95. How do you write a good autobiography? The author, as the central character, should find the story interesting. The...

Fur trade wars: the founding of Western Canada.
September 1, 1999... J.M. Bumsted, Fur Trade Wars: The Founding of Western Canada. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 1999. 272 pp. Maps, b&w illus., bibliography, index. $19.95. Say what one will of the end result of their efforts, one must admit that...