History

History




Abbreviations

CIHM = Canadian Institute for Historical Microforms
GN = Geographical Names Section
NA = National Archives
MdP = Musee des pionniers
MRT = Morrissette Library, University of Ottawa
OPL = Ottawa Public Library

People who are willing to do look ups from specified volumes are listed below the entry for the publication.

History - general

Aboriginal people and the colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (1999)
Sarah Carter
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-8020-4147-7 (hardcover); ISBN 0-8020-7995-4 (paper)

A brief history of Canada (2000)
Roger Riendeau
Fitzhenry & Whiteside,Markham, Ont.
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 1-55041-554-9 (hardcover); ISBN 1-55041-555-7 (paper)
Consult at:

Confederation and the West (2002)
Douglas Baldwin
Weigl Educational Publishers, Calgary
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 1-55388-014-5
Consult at:

Canadian history: patterns and transformations (2002)
Ian M. Hundey et al.
Irwin,Toronto
Includes index
ISBN 0-7725-2940-X
Consult at:

Destinies: Canadian history since Confederation (4th edition; c. 1999)
R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, Donald B. Smith
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-7747-3665-8
Consult at:

The Illustrated History of Canada (2000; rev.ed.)
Craig Brown, editor
Key Porter Books, Toronto
Includes index
ISBN 1-55263-146-X
Consult at:

A thousand miles of prairie : the Manitoba Historical Society and the history of Western Canada (2000)
Jim Blanchard, editor
University of Manitoba Press, Winnipeg
Contains selections from early members of the Manitoba Historical Society
ISBN 0-88755-665-5
Consult at:

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People

Aboriginal people and the colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (1999)
Sarah Carter
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-8020-4147-7 (hardcover); ISBN 0-8020-7995-4 (paper)

Canadian steel, Chinese grit: a tribute to the Chinese who worked on Canada's railroads more than a century ago / Fêng ku Chung-hua hun : Chi nien pai nien chan ....(2000)
Julia Ningyu Li / Li Ning Yü p'ien chu, compiler and editor
Paxlink Communications Inc., Toronto
Text is in English and Chinese and includes bibliographical references
ISBN 0-9687319-0-2

Dictionary of Canadian biography / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (2000) [computer file]
Ramsay Cook, general editor / Réal Bélanger, directeur général adjoint
University of Toronto, Toronto / Université Laval, Québec
Text in English and French. Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-7727-7200-2

Gabriel Dumont: the Métis chief and his lost world (2003)
George Woodcock ; introduction by J.R. Miller
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont.
ISBN 1-55111-575-1

L'élément français au Nord-Ouest [ressource électronique] : voyageurs canadiens-français et Métis, 1763-1870 (2003; 2e éd.)
Louis-Arthur Prud'homme
La Société historique de Saint-Boniface, Saint-Boniface, Man.
(Collection Les écrits du Manitoba français)
Comprends un index
ISBN 0-9694614-3-7

Les Français dans l'Ouest canadien (2002; 3e éd.)
Donatien Frémont
Éditions du Blé, Saint-Boniface, Man.
(Les Cahiers d'histoire de la Société historique de Saint-Boniface)
Comprend des réf. bibliogr. et un index.
ISBN 2-921347-71-7

A history of the Canadian peoples (2003; 2nd ed.)
J.M. Bumsted Oxford University Press, Toronto
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-19-541688-0

Louis Riel v. Canada : the making of a rebel (2001)
J.M. Bumsted
Great Plains Publications, Winnipeg
ISBN 1-894283-25-2

Many tender ties: women in fur-trade society in western Canada, 1670-1870 (1999)
Sylvia van Kirk
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 1-896239-51-X

The Metis of St. Laurent, Manitoba: their life and stories, 1920-1988 (2003)
Guy Lavallée
G. Lavallée, Saint-Boniface, Man.
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-9682769-1-1

Monsieur Georges-Antoine Belcourt, missionnaire à la Rivière-Rouge [ressource électronique] (2003; 2e éd.)
Louis-Arthur Prud'homme
La Société historique de Saint-Boniface, Saint-Boniface, Man.
(Collection Les écrits du Manitoba français)
ISBN 0-9694614-2-9

The peoples of Canada : a pre-Confederation history (2003; 2nd ed.)
J.M. Bumstead
Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ont.
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-19-541689-9

The promised land : settling the West, 1896-1914 (2002)
Pierre Berton
Anchor Canada, Toronto
ISBN 0-385-65929-6

The Silver Chief : Lork Selkirk and the Scottish pioneers of Belfast, Baldoon and Red River (2003)
Lucille H. Campey
Natural Heritage Books, Toronto
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 1-896219-88-8

Au temps de la Prairie : l'histoire des métis de l'ouest canadien (1999)
racontée par Auguste Vermette ; témoignages recueillis, édités et annotés par Marcien Ferland
St. Boniface, Man. : Éditions du Blé, St. Boniface, Man.
Comprend des références bibliographiques
ISBN 2-921347-57-1

The Western Canadians 1600-1900
Genealogical Research Library, publisher
20 Toronto St., 8th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5C 2B8
ISBN 0-919941-31-1
This book searches several Henderson's Directories, Gazetteers, and censuses, and lists each name alphabetically from each source.

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Places

Gretna, window on the Northwest (1987)
F. G. Enns; research by Gail Whelan Enns
Village of Gretna History Committee, publisher; D. W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., Altona, Manitoba, printer
ISBN

Trials and tribulations : the emergence of Manitoba, 1821-1870 (2003)
J.M. Bumsted
Great Plains Publications, Winnipeg
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 1-894283-39-2

Turning Leaves: a history of the people La Riviére and district (1979)
La Riviere Historical Book Society
La Riviére, Manitoba
Contains information about the pioneer families of this area and their descendants.
Contact Vernalyn (Morrow) Heale

Rural Municipality of Cartier

Manitoba

Red River: The passageway to the prairies

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Religious history

Altona Mennonite Church: 25th Anniversary 1962-1987 (1988)
Ted Friesen, editor
Altona Mennonite Church, Altona

Altona Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church Family (1989)
Dolores Klassen, et al.
Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church of Altona, Altona

Bergthaler Mennonite Church, Altona, Manitoba: Membership Album 1976 (1976)
Altona Bergthaler Church, Altona, Manitoba

Blumenfeld: Where Land and People Meet (1981)
Irene Friesen Petkau and Peter A. Petkau, editors
Blumenfeld Historical Committee, Winkler, Manitoba

Footprints of a Pilgrim People: Story of the Blumenort Mennonite Church (ca. 1985)
Peter D. Zacharias
Blumenort Mennonite Church, Gretna, Manitoba

Lowe Farm: 75th Anniversary, 1899-1974 (1974)
John L. Braun
D.W. Friesen, Altona

Lowe Farm Bergthaler Mennonite Church, Lowe Farm, Manitoba: Seventy-fifth anniversary 1905-1980 (1980)
Peter G. Dueck and John Braun, editors
Anniversary Book Committee, Lowe Farm, Manitoba

Mennonite Brethren Church; Winkler, Manitoba, 1888-1963 (1963)
D.W. Friesen, Altona

Monsieur Georges-Antoine Belcourt, missionnaire à la Rivière-Rouge [ressource électronique] (2003; 2e éd.)
Louis-Arthur Prud'homme
La Société historique de Saint-Boniface, Saint-Boniface, Man.
(Collection Les écrits du Manitoba français)
ISBN 0-9694614-2-9

Rosenort Fellowship Chapel, 1974-1975 (1975)
John Wiebe, editor
Friesen Yearbooks, Altona

Stories with Meaning: A Guide for the Writing of Congregational Histories (1978)
Frank Henry Epp
Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Social history

Aboriginal people and the colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 (1999)
Sarah Carter
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 0-8020-4147-7 (bound); ISBN 0-8020-7995-4 (pbk.)

A Long Eclipse: the liberal Protestant establishment and the Canadian university, 1920 - 1970 (2004)
Catherine Gidney
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN 0-7735-2805-9

Many tender ties: women in fur-trade society in western Canada, 1670-1870 (1999)
Sylvia van Kirk
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN 1-896239-51-X

Naturalization and citizenship indexes in the Canada Gazette, 1915-1951: a finding aid (1999)
Dave Obee, compiler
ISBN 0-9685026-1-X

New Bergthal Heritage and Cookbook (1980)
Ray Hamm
Gateway Publishing Co., Winnipeg, Manitoba

Nothing More Comforting: Canada's Heritage Food (2003)
Dorothy Duncan
Dundurn Press
ISBN 1-55002-447-7
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Strays!: married name index to volumes I to III of the OGS Strays Project (1999)
Shirley E. Lancaster, project co-ordinator ; David J. Browne, indexer/computer input
Includes index
ISBN 0-7779-0221-4

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