Manitoba History articles from September 2004

Manitoba History archives from September 2004

Nationalism and visual media in Canada: the case of Thomas Scott's execution.
September 22, 2004... From the time of Confederation, the media has generated images of Canada, its constituent peoples and regions, exerting a wide-ranging impact on the country's culture. To study these images, especially in the key period after 1867, is to...

New Gazette editors for Manitoba History.(Gazette)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... With this issue, Manitoba History says goodbye to our longtime Gazette editor Rosemary Malaher. We would like to thank Rosemary for her dedication and the many fine articles she has contributed to the journal over the years. Taking over as...

York Factory National Historic Site of Canada: planning the future for a place with a momentous past.(Gazette)
September 22, 2004... "What then should be our blue-print for the future of York Factory? At his lecture Dr. Ritchie pointed out the need for action if the buildings at York Factory are to be saved. "It would be a tragedy to have the buildings deteriorate into...

Revelation hydro kitchen: my new electric range reveals the secret of successful meals.(Gazette)
September 22, 2004... The kitchen, lovingly known by all as the heart of the home, is often bustling with activity, the stove overflowing with pots, the oven popping out cookies and the smell of home cooked food wafting through the air. With the advent of...

Commemorating the Wasyl Negrych Pioneer Homestead.(Gazette)
September 22, 2004... This past summer the Negrych Pioneer Homestead, located near Gilbert Plains Manitoba, became one of this province's newest national historic sites. At a ceremony held on August 1st a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque was...

Hard times for the Hardimans.(Gazette)(Theophilus Hardiman)
September 22, 2004... A simple obituary notice in the Winnipeg Daily Times June 5, 1882, along with the Registers of Burials and Deceased of Winnipeg's St. John's Anglican Cathedral cemetery, give quiet evidence of a painful and tragic family tale. In April 1882...

"Your great mother across the salt sea": Prairie First Nations, the British Monarchy and the Vice Regal Connection to 1900.
September 22, 2004... In the summer of 2000, at Lower Fort Garry, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson attended a ceremony commemorating Treaty One, made in 1871 between Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Cree and Saulteaux. "This treaty," Clarkson has written,...

A living and a life: trajectories in the study of rural Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Raymond Blake and Andrew Nurse (eds.) The Trajectories of Rural Life: New Perspectives on Rural Canada, Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2003,167 pp., ISBN 0889771529, $29.95. Barb Glen, editor and columnist, describes her recent...

J.M. Bumsted, Reporting the Resistance: Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... J.M. Bumsted, Reporting the Resistance: Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 20(0, ISBN 0-88755-675-2 $24.95 The Red River Resistance and surrounding events between the...

Patrick Douaud & Bruce Dawson (eds.), Plain Speaking: Essays on Aboriginal Peoples and the Prairie.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Patrick Douaud & Bruce Dawson (eds.), Plain Speaking: Essays on Aboriginal Peoples and the Prairie, Canadian Plains Research Centre: University of Regina, 2002, ISBN 088977-133-2, $29.95. Plain Speaking provides a welcome addition to...

Kazimierz Patalas (ed.) Providence Watching: Journeys from Wartorn Poland to the Canadian Prairies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kazimierz Patalas (ed.) Providence Watching: Journeys from Wartorn Poland to the Canadian Prairies. Translated by Zbigniew Izydorczyk. Introduction by Daniel Stone. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2004, ISBN 0-88755-674-4, $19.95. ...

Raymond Joseph Armand Huel, Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface. The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Raymond Joseph Armand Huel, Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface. The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision, Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2003.429 pages, ISBN 088864406X $39.95. Alexandre-Antonin Tache was only 22 years old and...

Helen Mulligan & Wanda Ryder, Ghost Towns of Manitoba: a Record of Pioneer Life.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Helen Mulligan & Wanda Ryder, Ghost Towns of Manitoba: A Record of Pioneer Life. Winnipeg: Great Plains Publications, 2003, 151 pp. including index, ISBN: 1894283414, $21.95. This attractively produced book has articles on 39 communities...