Manitoba History articles from September 2003

Manitoba History archives from September 2003

Western Canadian fur trade sites and the iconography of public memory.
September 22, 2003... Fur trade sites such as Lower Fort Garry, Fort Langley, Fort Edmonton and Fort William attract several hundred thousand visitors every year--cumulatively far more people than will ever read scholarly or even popular histories of the fur trade...

Manitoba bibliography/02.
September 22, 2003... Books: Angel, Michael, Preserving the sacred: historical perspectives on the Ojibwa Midewiwin (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002). Bedard, Armand, Un reve en heritage (Saint-Boniface: Plaines, 2002). Blanchard, J., ed.,...

Doctor beyond the end of steel.(Gazette)
September 22, 2003... The building of the railway to Hudson Bay began in the summer of 1908. Prior to World War I the line was cleared and graded almost to Port Nelson at the mouth of the Nelson River. During the war, however, construction slowed, stopped and...

The Sherritt-Gordon mine strike of 1947.(Gazette)
September 22, 2003... In the late summer of 1947 Winnipeg newspapers were proclaiming the creation of two dominions on the Indian Continent, the engagement of the Princess Elizabeth and the preparations for the Royal Wedding. On August 13th 1947 both the Winnipeg...

The quality of friendship: Andrew McDermot and George Simpson.(Gazette)
September 22, 2003... Friendship has many degrees. Ranging from acquaintance to deep kinship, it encompasses a huge swath of human emotional interchange but at core keeps one aspect, a bond of affection. Beyond that bond may lie anything from rivalry to close...

Daniel Stone (ed.) Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg, 1905-1960.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Winnipeg: Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada, 2003) pp 224, illus., ISBN 0969 125666, $25.00. Academics love to damn collections of essays, conference proceedings and other such compilations with the simple descriptive phrase,...

Paul Hackett, A Very Remarkable Sickness: Epidemics in the Petit Nord, 1670 to 1846.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. $24.95, 313 pp. Illus. ISBN 0-88755-659-0. It has been twenty years since anthropologist Henry Dobyns published his controversial book Their Number Become Thinned in which he argued that Old...

Michael Angel, Preserving the Sacred: Historical Perspectives on the Ojibwa Midewiwin.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2002. xiv, 260 pp., 3 maps, 11 illus., notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0887556574, $24.95. Preserving the Sacred is an excellent and rigorous historical analysis of the role of the...

Rosa Bruno-Jofre and Natalia Aponiuk (eds.), Educating Citizens for a Pluralistic Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... (Calgary: Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2001), 251 pp., ISBN 0-9683327-1-4, $15.00 paper, $20.00 cloth. Since Confederation the central institutions of Canada have been concerned with creating citizens who subscribe to some central though as...