Manitoba History articles from September 2002

Manitoba History archives from September 2002

Exploring northern skies: The Churchill Research Range. (1).(Churchill, Manitoba )
September 22, 2002... A combination of geographical circumstances has given Churchill, Manitoba a long tradition of scientific research into geographical and geophysical subjects: its accessibility on Hudson Bay at the mouth of the Churchill River, and its proximity...

Embattled notions: constructions of Rupert's Land's native sons, 1760 to 1860. *.(children of native women and European traders working for the Hudson's Bay Company in the late18th century and early 19th century )
September 22, 2002... The children produced as a result of the cohabitation of European traders and Aboriginal women were the ultimate expression of transcultural relations. They were living witnesses to the intimate nature of this complex encounter and a pivotal...

My Quest for the Bay. (Gazette).(journey from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Hudson Bay)
September 22, 2002... In January of 2002 many Canadians watched the five-part series "Quest for the Bay" produced for History Television by Frantic Films of Winnipeg. Filmed in the summer of 2001, the series followed the exploits of eight modern day tripmen as they...

"Dollee" Chevrier (1878-1948): a Franco-Manitoban Suffragette and "modern" woman.
September 22, 2002... Lorena Aglae "Dollee" was an independent and assertive woman at a time when Franco-Catholic women were largely restricted to family related activities in the home, in the service of Church and State. She spent her youth in Manitoba, more...

Manitoba bibliography/01.(books on the history of Manitoba published in 2001)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2002... Books Bergen, Peter, History of the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church: that is the background and first hundred years of the Sommerfelder Mennonite Church, (sommerfeld Mennonite Church, 2001). Bumsted, J. M., Louis Rid v. Canada: the making...

Reverend Frederic B. Du Val: Winnipeg's fearless foe of social vices.
September 22, 2002... From a small number of wooden stores and residences in 1870, Winnipeg became the home to nearly eight thousand persons by 1881. Five years later, the census counted 20,238 Winnipeggers. For each five-year period between 1886 and 1916,...

William M. Baker, ed., The Mounted Police and Prairie Society, 1873-1919.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1998, ISBN 88977-103-0, paper, $29.95 The Royal North West Mounted Police is a staple of English-Canadian popular culture and Prairie historiography alike. William M. Baker's edited collection, The...

June Dutka, The Grace of Passing: Constantine H. Andrusyshen--the Odyssey of a Slavist.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Edmonton: CIUS Press, 2000. Pp.125, Illus., index, ISBN 1-895571-31-6, $14.95. Constantine Henry Andrusyshen (1907-1983), the Winnipeg-born linguist and literary scholar, is considered the founder of the modern day Slavic Studies program,...

Robert Wardhaugh, editor, Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture and History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2001, ISBN 0-88755-672-8, 232 pages, $23.00. Toward Defining the Prairies contains a selection of the papers presented at a conference of the same name held at St. John's College, University of...

Edwin Thompson Denig, The Assiniboine.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... J.N.B. Hewitt, ed., with an introduction by David R. Miller, Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2000. pp. xxxiv, 290, illus., index., $24 paper. The Assiniboine first appeared in 1930 in the Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of...