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Howard Pawley 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient!
Howard Pawley is the University of Manitoba’s 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.
The Distinguished Alumni Award is an honour presented annually to a graduate who demonstrates outstanding professional achievement and community service, and who also maintains links with the University of Manitoba.
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Manitoba Day Award for Jim Blanchard's Winnipeg's Great War
In early May, Jim Blanchard’s Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age was one of nine recipients of the Manitoba Day Award, presented by the Association of Manitoba Archives.
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Jo-Ann Episkenew talks about Taking Back Our Spirits
Jo-Ann Episkenew, author of Taking Back Our Spirits, was recently interviewed by Cassandra J. Opikokew for the University of Regina’s YOURblog.
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Jo-Ann Episkenew on CBC's The Next Chapter
Jo-Ann Episkenew, author of Taking Back Our Spirits appeared on the June 27 edition of CBC’s The Next Chapter, entitled A Prairie Feast of Saskatchewan Writers.
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Prairie Metropolis On the Night Table
Greg MacPherson, Winnipeg songwriter, musician, and performance artist named Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History to his On the Night Table list in the June 4 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press’ Books Section.
“I’m seven years into an obsession with Russian literature, particularly the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a world where libraries and second-hand book stores are filled with great translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment, it seems outrageous to me that anyone could suffer from a lack of inspiration or fail to recognize our enormous potential as human beings. The stack of books on my night stand includes several Dostoevsky novels, Tolstoy’s War and Peace and the exceptional University of Manitoba Press compilation of essays on Winnipeg social history, Prairie Metropolis.”
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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
by Carolin Vesely, Winnipeg Free Press -
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.