University of Manitoba Press

The third instalment in Jim Blanchard''s popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once...

A social and economic history of one of the oldest Ukrainian settlements in Western Canada. Established in 1896, the Stuartburn colony was one of t...

The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada's Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of t...

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front. When the call to arms was heard...

In an expanding and socially fractious early twentieth-century Winnipeg, Lewis Benjamin Foote (1873-1957) rose to become the city's pre-eminent com...

Howard Pawley, former Premier of Manitoba, Canada (1981-88) led the province during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. Elected at th...

Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic. For many years, Peter Kulchyski has travelled...

Manitoba has always been a province in the middle, geographically, economically, and culturally. Lacking Quebec's cultural distinctiveness, Ontario...

Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing even...

Place and Replace is a collection of recent interdisciplinary research into Western Canada that calls attention to the multiple political, social, ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropo...

Why don't more Metis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Metis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chanta...

Sounds of Ethnicity takes us into the linguistic, cultural, and geographical borderlands of German North America in the Great Lakes region between ...

Sounds of Ethnicity takes us into the linguistic, cultural, and geographical borderlands of German North America in the Great Lakes region between ...

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdi...

From the local bestselling author of Winnipeg 1912 comes the riveting next chapter in the city's history. Winnipeg's Great War picks up in 1914, ju...