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A Thousand Miles of Prairie: The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada
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by Jim Blanchard
Sales Rank: 4929286
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Cover Type: Paperback with 262 pages
Published by: University of Manitoba Press November 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0887556655
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0887556654
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Product Description
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.
About The Author
Jim Blanchard, a native of Brandon, is a former president of the Manitoba Historical Society. He is a senior librarian at the University of Manitoba, and has also written on the history of the grain trade and the 1932 Machray scandal. His latest book is Winnipeg 1912.
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