Manitoba History articles from September 2000

Manitoba History archives from September 2000

Growth of music in early Winnipeg to 1920.
September 22, 2000... At the time of the entry of Manitoba into Confederation in 1870 there were only about 100 inhabitants in the village of Winnipeg, formally designated as the City of Winnipeg in 1873, that consisted of some thirty rickety structures. The...

Manitoba Bibliography `99.
September 22, 2000... BOOKS Anderson, Carol, Dancing Towards the Light: Rachel Browne (Winnipeg: J. Cordon Shillingford, 1999). Bumsted, J.M., Dictionary of Manitoba Biography (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999). Carr, Ian and Robert...

Rachmanioff in Winnipeg: the Band of the Princess Patricia's regiment meets a Russian master.
September 22, 2000... "There was nothing left for us but to thank our lucky stars that we had lived when Rachmaninoff did and heard him...." W.J. Henderson (1930) Winnipeg has long been recognized as a centre of great musical vitality. In the aftermath of...

New Iceland: commemorating 125 years of settlement history in Manitoba.
September 22, 2000... On Oct. 21, 2000 an Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque was unveiled in Gimli. The plaque inscription reads: New Iceland represents a distinctive episode in the early settlement of the Canadian West. In 1875 and 1876, more...

Politics in the park: Winnipeg's Victoria Park during the General Strike.
September 22, 2000... The following essay was the winner of the Manitoba Historical Society's 1999 Edward C. Shaw "Young Historians" Award. Gray and empty, the old thermal power plant stands behind the Centennial Concert Hall. Each day hundreds of people drive...

(Samuel Joseph) McKee of Brandon College.
September 22, 2000... Introduction The termination of Hudson's Bay Company hegemony over the British North American territory extending from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean, taken together with the new nation of Canada's pledge to build a steel-rail bridge...

Speaking for myself: politics and other pursuits.
September 22, 2000... Duff Roblin, Speaking for Myself: Politics and Other Pursuits, Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 1999, 253 pp. ISBN: 1894283090, $32.95. `Who-so-ever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels,' warned Sir...

Gabrielle Roy: a life.
September 22, 2000... Francois Ricard, Gabrielle Roy: A Life, translated by Patricia Claxton, Toronto:McLelland and Stewart, 1999, 600 pp. ISBN, 0-77107-7451-4, $35.00. Francois Ricard, Professor of French literature at McGill, is the author of several books...

Manitoba medicine: a brief history.
September 22, 2000... Ian Carr and Robert Beamish, Manitoba Medicine: A Brief History, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999, ISBN 0-88755-660-4, 280 pp., $22.95. The history of medicine has changed a great deal in the last twenty years. There was a time...