Manitoba History articles from September 22 2001

Manitoba History archives from September 22 2001

"Duff's Ditch": the origins, construction, and impact of the Red River Floodway.
September 22, 2001... The Red River Floodway, "Duff's Ditch", was constructed in 1962-68 to protect the City of Winnipeg from inundation by the Red River during years of severe flooding. The floodway channel carries floodwaters past the city and, in supplementing...

A fallen splendour: the Challener murals of Winnipeg's Royal Alexandra Hotel. (Gazette).
September 22, 2001... On a spring evening in the late 1950's, a little girl, peered curiously into the ornate dining room of Winnipeg's Royal Alexandra Hotel. Her astonished gaze took in a high paneled ceiling, a glittering chandelier, but most of all, a series of...

From the Red to the Nile: William Nassau Kennedy and the Manitoba contingent of voyageurs in the Gordon relief expedition, 1884-1885. (The Young Historian).
September 22, 2001... The following essay by Michael Bumsted was chosen the winner of the 2001 Dr. Edward C. Shaw Award in the Young Historians Competition sponsored by the Manitoba Historical Society. Seventeen years after Confederation, Canada lent major aid...

Manitoba Bibliography/00.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Books Black, Errol, A Square Deal for All: Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon (St. John's, Nfld.: Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2000). Briggs, Colin J., York Factory Medical Journals, 1846-1849, at the Hudson's Bay Company...

"Practical results": the Riel statue controversy at the Manitoba Legislative Building.
September 22, 2001... "I hope that after my death my spirit will bring practical results." Louis Riel's words as inscribed on the walls surrounding Marcien Lemay's and Etienne Gaboury's monument Canada has been haunted by Riel's spirit for over 130...

The Limits of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Kenneth Michael Sylvester, The Limits of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. The national policies of post-Confederation Dominion governments -- we...

Thomas Scott's Body, and Other Essays on Early Manitoba History. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... J.M. Bumsted, Thomas Scott's Body, and Other Essays on Early Manitoba History. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2000, 258 pp., ISBN 0887556450, $19.95 With Thomas Scott's Body, J.M. (Jack) Bumsted, a historian at St. John's College,...

Manitoba Commercial Market Gardening, 1945-1997: Class, Race and Ethnic Relations. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Avis Mysyk, Manitoba Commercial Market Gardening, 1945-1997: Class, Race and Ethnic Relations. Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2000. 108 pp. ISBN 0889771286, $19.95. As a kid growing up in south-central Manitoba during the Fifties...