Night Spirits

Night Spirits
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9780887553486
ISBN-13 : 0887553486
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Night Spirits by : Ila Bussidor

For over 1500 years, the Sayisi Dene, 'The Dene from the East', led an independent life, following the caribou herds and having little contact with white society. In 1956, an arbitrary government decision to relocate them catapulted the Sayisi Dene into the 20th century. It replaced their traditional nomadic life of hunting and fishing with a slum settlement on the outskirts of Churchill, Manitoba. Inadequately housed, without jobs, unfamiliar with the language or the culture, their independence and self-determination deteriorated into a tragic cycle of discrimination, poverty, alcoholism and violent death. By the early 1970s, the band realized they had to take their future into their own hands again. After searching for a suitable location, they set up a new community at Tadoule Lake, 250 miles north of Churchill. Today they run their own health, education and community programs. But the scars of the relocation will take years to heal, and Tadoule Lake is grappling with the problems of a people whose ties to the land, and to one another, have been tragically severed. In Night Spirits, the survivors, including those who were children at the time of the move, as well as the few remaining elders, recount their stories. They offer a stark and brutally honest account of the near-destruction of the Sayisi Dene, and their struggle to reclaim their lives. It is a dark story, told in hope.

Rooster Town

Rooster Town
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780887555664
ISBN-13 : 0887555667
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Rooster Town by : Evelyn Peters

Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

The Story of Manitoba

The Story of Manitoba
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Publisher : Winnipeg, Clarke
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:31158008881152
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Story of Manitoba by : Frank Howard Schofield

This collection of biographies of Manitobans was compiled by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, and published in Winnipeg in 1913. Most of those featured in the book were living at that time, so no information on death dates were provided.

Thomas Scott's Body

Thomas Scott's Body
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780887553875
ISBN-13 : 0887553877
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Thomas Scott's Body by : J.M. Bumsted

What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott?The disposal of the body of Canadian history's most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted's new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba's Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement's history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman's trial.Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.

Extraordinary Tales from Manitoba History

Extraordinary Tales from Manitoba History
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Publisher : Manitoba Historical Society ; Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X002555735
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Extraordinary Tales from Manitoba History by : J. W. Chafe

In Our Backyard

In Our Backyard
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : 9780887552908
ISBN-13 : 0887552900
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis In Our Backyard by : Aimée Craft

Beginning with the Grand Rapids Dam in the 1960s, hydroelectric development has dramatically altered the social, political, and physical landscape of northern Manitoba. The Nelson River has been cut up into segments and fractured by a string of dams, for which the Churchill River had to be diverted and new inflow points from Lake Winnipeg created to manage their capacity. Historic mighty rapids have shrivelled into dry river beds. Manitoba Hydro's Keeyask dam and generating station will expand the existing network of 15 dams and 13,800 km of transmission lines. In Our Backyard tells the story of the Keeyask dam and accompanying development on the Nelson River from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, academics, scientists, and regulators. It builds on the rich environmental and economic evaluations documented in the Clean Environment Commission’s public hearings on Keeyask in 2012. It amplifies Indigenous voices that environmental assessment and regulatory processes have often failed to incorporate and provides a basis for ongoing decision-making and scholarship relating to Keeyask and resource development more generally. It considers cumulative, regional, and strategic impact assessments; Indigenous worldviews and laws within the regulatory and decision-making process; the economics of development; models for monitoring and management; consideration of affected species; and cultural and social impacts. With a provincial and federal regulatory regime that is struggling with important questions around the balance between development and sustainability, and in light of the inherent rights of Indigenous people to land, livelihoods, and self-determination, In Our Backyard offers critical reflections that highlight the need for purposeful dialogue, principled decision making, and a better legacy of northern development in the future.

Winnipeg Beach

Winnipeg Beach
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 0887557228
ISBN-13 : 9780887557224
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Winnipeg Beach by : Dale Barbour

During the first half of the twentieth century, Winnipeg Beach proudly marketed itself as the Coney Island of the West. Located just north of Manitoba's bustling capital, it drew 40,000 visitors a day and served as an important intersection between classes, ethnic communities, and perhaps most importantly, between genders. In Winnipeg Beach, Dale Barbour takes us into the heart of this turn-of-the-century resort area and introduces us to some of the people who worked, played and lived in the resort. Through photographs, interviews, and newspaper clippings he presents a lively history of this resort area and its surprising role in the evolution of local courtship and dating practices, from the commoditization of the courting experience by the Canadian Pacific Railway's ?Moonlight Specials,” through the development of an elaborate amusement area that encouraged public dating, and to its eventual demise amid the moral panic over sexual behaviour during the 1950s and ?60s.

We’re Going to Run This City

We’re Going to Run This City
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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9780887554735
ISBN-13 : 0887554733
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis We’re Going to Run This City by : Stefan Epp-Koop

Stefan Epp-Koop’s "We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike" explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level—even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate in political activity. Winnipeg was a deeply divided city. On one side, the conservative political descendants of the General Strike’s Citizen’s Committee of 1000 advocated for minimal government and low taxes. On the other side were the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada, two parties rooted in the city’s working class, though often in conflict with each other. The political strength of the Left would ebb and flow throughout the 1920s and 1930s but peaked in the mid-1930s when the ILP’s John Queen became mayor and the two parties on the Left combined to hold a majority of council seats. Astonishingly, Winnipeg was governed by a mayor who had served jail time for his role in the General Strike.

Threads in the Sash

Threads in the Sash
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Publisher : Pemmican Publications
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 1926506057
ISBN-13 : 9781926506050
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Threads in the Sash by : Fred Shore

The author explores the history, culture, and political development of the Métis people in Canada.

300 Years of Beer

300 Years of Beer
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 192653171X
ISBN-13 : 9781926531717
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis 300 Years of Beer by : Bill Wright

FINALIST for Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year, Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher (Manitoba Book Awards 2013)