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History, Literature And The Writing Of The Canadian Prairies

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 The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents.
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One Man'S Documentary - A Memoir Of The Early Years Of The National Film Board

by Graham Mcinnes

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Rural Life - Portraits Of The Prairie Town, 1946

by James P. Giffen

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Western Icelandic Short Stories

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 Presents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors. The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba). They reflect a wealth of literary activity, from the numerous Western Icelandic newspapers and journals, to the reading circles and cultural and literary societies that supported them.
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Intimate Strangers - The Letters Of Margaret Laurence And Gabrielle Roy

by Gabrielle Roy e Margaret Laurence

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A Very Remarkable Sickness - Epidemics In The Petit Nord, 1670 To 1846

by Paul Hackett

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 Historical geographer Paul Hackett meticulously traces the diffusion of diseases from Europe through central Canada to the West. Hackett's study yields a comprehensive picture of where, when, and how the staggering impact of epidemics was felt.
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Night Spirits - The Story Of The Relocation Of The Sayisi Dene

by Ila Bussidor e Ustun Bilgen-Reinart

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 In 1956, an arbitrary government decision relocated the Sayisi Dene and catapulted them into the 20th century. In Night Spirits, survivors, including those who were children at the time of the move, as well as the few remaining elders, recount their stories, offering a stark and brutally honest account of the near-destruction.
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Formidable Heritage - Manitoba'S North And The Cost Of Development

by Jim Mochoruk

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 One of the first parts of the Canada's north to be aggressively industrialized was northern Manitoba. Jim Mochoruk shows how government and business worked together to transform what had been the exclusive fur-trading preserve of the Hudsons Bay Company into an industrial hinterland.
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Reporting The Resistance - Alexander Begg And Joseph Hargrave On The Red River Resistance

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 "Reporting the Resistance "brings together two first-person accounts to give a view 'from the ground' of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba.
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Providence Watching - Journeys From Wartorn Poland To The Canadian Prairies

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Writing Grief - Margaret Laurence And The Work Of Mourning

by Christian Riegel

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One Version Of The Facts - My Life In The Ivory Tower

by Henry E. Duckworth

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 In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981), and chancellor of the University of Manitoba.
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Making Ends Meet - Farm Women'S Work In Manitoba

by Charlotte Van De Vorst

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 Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women's changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community.
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Mac Runciman - A Life In The Grain Trade

by Paul D. Earl

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A Thousand Miles Of Prairie - The Manitoba Historical Society And The History Of Western Canada

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 Provides a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinces political and cultural elite.
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From The Inside Out - The Rural Worlds Of Mennonite Diarists

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 Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skilfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out".
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Dictionary Of Manitoba Biography

by J. M. Bumsted

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 Until now, there has been no comprehensive, contemporary source for information on the many Manitobans who have left their mark on history and society. Dictionary of Manitoba Biography fills this gap, with biographical sketches of over 1700 Manitobans who have made an impact in politics, the arts, sports, commerce, agriculture, and society.
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Manitoba Medicine - A Brief History

by Ian Carr e Robert E. Beamish

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 For many Canadians, the state of the health care and medical system is at the top of the public agenda. By following the growth and development of modern medicine in one Canadian province, Manitoba Medicine provides an insight into where Canada's present medical system came from and how it developed.
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A Very Remarkable Sickness - Epidemics In The Petit Nord, 1670 To 1846

by Paul Hackett

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 Although new diseases had first arrived in the New World in the 16th century, by the end of the 17th century shorter transoceanic travel time meant that a far greater number of diseases survived the journey from Europe and were still able to infect new communities. Historical geographer Paul Hackett meticulously traces the diffusion of these diseases from Europe through central Canada to the West.
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Preserving The Sacred - Historical Perspectives On The Ojibwa Midewiwin

by Michael Angel

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 Historian Michael Angel compares the early texts written about the Midewiwin, and identifies major, common misconceptions in these accounts. In his explanation of the historical role played by the Midewiwin, he provides alternative viewpoints and explanations of the significance of the ceremonies, while respecting the sacred and symbolic nature of the Midewiwin rituals, songs, and scrolls.
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Making It Home - Place In Canadian Literature

by Deborah Keahey

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 Traditional approaches to Prairie literature have focussed on the significance of "the land" in attempts to make a place into a home. Deborah Keahey considers over 70 years of Canadian Prairie literature, including poetry, autobiography, drama, and fiction. The 17 writers range from the established, like Martha Ostenso and Robert Kroetsch, to newer writers, like Ian Ross and Kelly Rebar.
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Hidden Worlds - Revisiting The Mennonite Migrants Of The 1870s

by Royden Loewen

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 Through an analysis of diaries, wills, newspaper articles, census and tax records, and other literature, an examination of inheritance practices, household dynamics, and gender relations, and a comparison of several Mennonite communities in the United States and Canada, Royden Loewen uncovers the multi-dimensional and highly resourceful character of the 1870s migrants.
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The University Of Manitoba - An Illustrated History

by J. M. Bumsted

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 Established in 1877, just seven years after the founding of the province itself, the University of Manitoba has grown to become an international centre of research and study. Historian J.M. Bumsted looks at how the university was forged out of the assembly of several, small, denominational colleges, and how it survived and thrived.
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Muskekowuck Athinuwick - Original People Of The Great Swampy Land

by Victor P. Lytwyn

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 The original people of the Hudson Bay lowlands were among the first Aboriginal peoples in northwestern North America to come into contact with Europeans. This book challenges long-held misconceptions about the Lowland Cree, and illustrates how historians have often misunderstood the role and resourcefulness of Aboriginal peoples during the fur-trade era.
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