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A Thousand Miles of Prairie : The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada
Jim Blasnchard
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A Thousand Miles of Prairie is a fascinating look at Manitoba's early boom years (1880-1910) through the eyes and words of some of the most interesting personalities of early Winnipeg. This collection brings together 14 pieces from the first decades of the Manitoba Historical Society, when its lectures were attended by the provinceís political and cultural elite.Jim Blanchard has chosen selections that give us a vivid taste of the diversity of intellectual life in turn of the century Manitoba. Besides writings by early historians such as George Bryce and Charles Bell, he includes a paper by the young Ernest Thompson Seton, who writes about his attempts to raise prairie chickens. There is also a description of the last passenger pigeons found in Manitoba. The collection includes lively personal reminscences, such as Gilbert McMicken, Canada's first spymaster, talking about foiling a Fenian raid on Winnipeg, and Archbishop Samuel Matheson, who tells about his boyhood adventures in the great Red River floods of the 1860s.
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Contents
Page 8-9
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Preface
Page 10-13
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Introduction
Page 14-25
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George Bryce: Alexander K. Isbister (1883)
Page 26-35
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Ernest Thompson Seton: The Prairie Chicken (1884)
Page 36-43
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Gilbert McMicken: The Abortive Fenian Raid on Manitoba (1888)
Page 44-71
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George Bryce & Charles Bell: Seven Oaks (1891)
Page 72-105
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John McBeth: Social Customs and Amusements of the Early Days in Red River Settlement (1893)
Page 106-117
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John C. Schultz: The Old Crow Wing Trail (1892)
Page 118-139
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Marion Bryce: The Charitable Institutions of Winnipeg (1899)
Page 140-163
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George Atkinson: A Review History of the Passenger Pigeon of Manitoba (1905)
Page 164-175
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Sigtryggur Jonasson: The Early Icelandic Settlements in Canada (1901)
Page 176-187
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Michael Sherbinin: Galicians Dwelling in Canada and Their Origin (1906)
Page 188-199
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Charles Napier Bell: The Old Forts of Winnipeg (1927)
Page 200-229
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John W. Dafoe: Early Winnipeg Newspapers (1930)
Page 230-249
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Samuel Matheson: Floods at Red River (1932)
Page 250-265
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Appendix
Page 266-272
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Title
A Thousand Miles of Prairie
Subtitle
The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada
Contributors
Jim Blanchard
,
Jim Blasnchard
,
John D. Nichols
Publisher
University of Manitoba Press
Publication date
2002-01-01
Pages
271
Print ISBN
9780887556654
eBook ISBN
9780887553080
LC Subjects
Manitoba - History - Sources.
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Northwest
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Canadian - History - Sources.
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