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Home Fronts
Jim Blanchard’s Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age reviewed in the June-July 2011 issue of Canada’s History Magazine.
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Under the Boardwalk
Author takes readers back to Winnipeg Beach’s heady heyday
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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.
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Emma LaRocque wins 2011 Non-Fiction Award
Emma LaRocque takes home the 2011 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction for When the Other Is Me
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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.
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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.
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Winnipeg's Great War leads Manitoba Book Awards short list
A history of Winnipeg’s contribution to the First World War has garnered the most nominations in this year’s Manitoba Book Awards.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Interview with Curtis Brown
Former Sun journalist edits book focusing on Manitoba politics
By: Keith Borkowsky, The Brandon Sun