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Warming Winter Minds
Warming Winter Minds: A Guest Post by Kim Anderson (originally published on Canadian Bookshelf). Keep reading »
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Dr. Carrie Bourassa responds to Life Stages and Native Women
As part of the September 22 launch of Kim Anderson’s Life Stages and Native Women at the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre at University of Regina, three people were asked to present responses to the book. Dr. Carrie Bourassa presented on the health applications and implications of Kim’s research. Keep reading »
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A northern travelogue
Timothy C. Winegard author of the forthcoming For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War provides a travelogue of his recent research trips and current projects. Keep reading »
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Train travel - then and now
You can tell a lot about a place by looking at how people travel. Winnipeg Beach, for example, was born a creature of the Canadian Pacific Railway and train travel helped define the community’s life in the first half of the twentieth century. This was a shared moment for people who hurtled back to Winnipeg together on a raucous Moonlight Express after an evening of dancing or even for those who joined the crowd that flowed out of the train and onto the resort’s boardwalk. Keep reading »
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New review of Marlene Epp’s “Mennonite Women in Canada”
A new review of Marlene Epp’s Mennonite Women in Canada has been posted to the Alex Freund’s German Canadian Studies blog. Keep reading »
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Politics in the Wheat City
Manitoba’s second-largest city, Brandon, plays a critical role in elections that mirrors its importance as southwestern Manitoba’s social, economic and cultural hub. Keep reading »
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Eight posts on Winnipeg’s Great War
Jim Blanchard spoke to a class of Creative Communications journalism majors at Red River College yesterday. Here are eight blog posts about Jim, his book, and the role of journalism in documenting history from some of those students. Keep reading »
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On the nomination process
The appropriate balance between local autonomy and central control in the nomination process has long been contentious. In recent years, however, the high-profile nominations of Michael Ignatieff, Rob Anders and Robert Sopuck (among others) have suggested that the balance of power is increasingly tilting towards the party brass. Keep reading »
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Battle of the Somme
In my book, I talk about the 28th Battalion from Regina moving into the area of the Somme in September 1916. I write on page 163 that “Arriving in Picardy, they were impressed by the ‘wide open fields without hedges or trees, slightly rolling and no high hills,’ which reminded them of the landscape back home in Western Canada.” I was wondering whether this was actually true, so this past summer I checked it out in a tour of the Somme battlefield. Keep reading »
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Immigrant Letters and the Experience of Migration
Here is an article from Minnesota Public Radio on a new letters project that I am working on with Donna Gabbacia from the University of Minnesota. Within the next few months, we will begin an ambitious effort to match letters scattered in archives around the world, uniting letters between mothers and sons, husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters. For now, the project’s site displays 40 letters written by eight immigrants and their families from 1850 to 1970. Keep reading »
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