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The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people.

Les Sept enseignements des Anishinaabeg (l'amour, la sagesse, l'humilité, le courage, le respect, l'honnêteté et la vérité) sont au cœur de ces sept histoires pour enfants.

Thomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk (1770-1820), was a complex man of his times, whose passions left an indelible mark on Canadian history.

Reporting the Resistance brings together two first-person accounts to give a view “from the ground” of the developments that shocked Canada and created the province of Manitoba.

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald, born in Winnipeg in 1890. A member of the Group of Seven; for several years he was a teacher at the Winnipeg School of Art.

The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people.

The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people.

Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic and political values.

Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time.

We are now fifteen years into the second wave of feminism, and public opinion polls show majority support for all the basic issues raised by the women’s movement.

My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents.

Using extensive research drawn from archives, interviews, and the media, Just One Vote is a retelling of a dramatic moment in Manitoba and Canadian politics.

In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower, Dr.

Manitoba Politics and Government is a rich and fascinating account of a province that strives for the centre, for the delicate middle ground where individualism and collectivism overlap, and where

Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba first published in 1883 and long out of print, is one of the best records of Canadian immigrant life.