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A Thousand Miles of Prairie: The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada
Contributor(s): Blanchard, Jim (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0887556655     ISBN-13: 9780887556654
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2002
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-)
- History | Social History
Dewey: 971
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 9.4" W x 9" L (0.90 lbs) 262 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
Features: Illustrated
 
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Publisher 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 province s 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Blanchard, Jim: - Jim Blanchard is the Head of Reference Services at Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba. He is a former president of the Manitoba Historical Society and is the author of Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age and Winnipeg 1912, and is the editor of A Thousand Miles of Prairie: The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada.
 
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