Books – Urban Studies
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For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt
Re-examining our radical past.
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Undressed Toronto
From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850-1935
Dressing for the beach.
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Settler City Limits
Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West
Urban Indigenous resistance and resurgence.
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A Diminished Roar
Winnipeg in the 1920s
A lively and entertaining tour through an overlooked period in Winnipeg’s history.
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Rooster Town
The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961
A Métis enclave at Winnipeg’s edge.
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The North End Revisited
Photographs by John Paskievich
Revisiting an iconic neighbourhood.
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Imagining Winnipeg
History through the Photographs of L.B. Foote
In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city’s pre-eminent commercial photographer. Imagining Winnipeg, prepared and introduced by award-winning historian Esyllt W. Jones, collects 150 Foote photographs from the more than 2,000 images in the Archives of Manitoba Foote Collection and challenges our understanding of visual history and the city we thought we knew.
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Winnipeg’s Great War
A City Comes of Age
Winnipeg’s Great War picks up in 1914, just as the city is regrouping after a brief economic downturn. War comes unexpectedly, thoughts of recovery are abandoned, and the city digs in for a hard-fought four years. Using letters, diaries, and newspaper reports, Jim Blanchard brings us into the homes and public offices of Winnipeg and its citizens to illustrate the profound effect the war had on every aspect of the city, from its politics and economy, to its men on the battlefield and its war-weary families fighting on the homefront.
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Prairie Metropolis
New Essays on Winnipeg Social History
Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s. The essays in this collection explore the development of social institutions such as the city’s police force, juvenile court, health care institutions, volunteer organizations, and cultural centres.
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The North End
Photographs by John Paskievich
Winnipeg’s North End has informed the Canadian mythology and influenced the national psyche. The North End also divides and defines the city of Winnipeg, shaping its politics and sense of identity. In these photographs, taken between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s, John Paskievich set out to explore the North End he knew in his youth.
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