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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.

At the beginning of the last century, no city on the continent was growing faster or was more aggressive than Winnipeg.

At The Turn Of The Twientieth Century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed.

Pipe organs were once a central (and sometimes hotly debated) part of Manitoba’s cultural life.

Manitoba is more than one of Canada’s three prairie provinces. Encompassing 649,950 square kilometres, its territory ranges from Canadian Shield to grassland, parkland, and subarctic tundra.