Manitoba
Showing 17–26 of 26 results
| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
From  NEW! Lives Lived, The Globe and Mail, December 31, 1999From: Bit Player on Big Stages |
This tribute, published in the Globe and Mail on December 31, 1999, memorializes Alice Katrina Chambers, a Manitoba microbiologist and environmental advocate. | Roger Turene | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
|
From NEW! Mon pays noir sur blancFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses his experiences returning home to Manitoba after twelve years abroad. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
|
From NEW! Politics: A Family AffairFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces the Préfontaine family’s multi-generational involvement in Manitoba politics from the early 1900s through the 1960s. | Roger Turene | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
|
From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this preface, Roger Turene introduces his memoir. | Roger Turene | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
|
From  The Heenan DisclosureFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
An overview of Liberal MP Peter Heenan’s disclosure of documents relating to the strike to parliament on June 2, 1926 | Norman Penner | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
|
From NEW! The Hidden BooksFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene recounts his experiences hiding French books from a school inspector, discussing the underground resistance to language suppression in Manitoba. | Roger Turene | 3 | 2025 | $0.30 Add |
|
From The Winnipeg General Sympathetic Strike May-June 1919 Prepared by the Defence Committee, Winnipeg, 1920From: Winnipeg 1919 |
An account of the 1919 Winnipeg General strike published by a group of labour organizers in the aftermath of the strike. | Norman Penner | 230 | 2019 | $23.00 Add |
|
From NEW! Those Who Came BeforeFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene traces four French-Canadian family lineages from their arrival in New France during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to their later settlement in Manitoba. | Roger Turene | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
|
From NEW! Threat and Opportunity: The Bilodeau CaseFrom: Bit Player on Big Stages |
In this chapter, Turene discusses the Bilodeau case, spanning 1980 to 1983, tracing how a speeding ticket in Ste. Agathe, Manitoba, exposed the province’s failure to honour its bilingual … | Roger Turene | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
Winnipeg 1919The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike |
On May 15, 1919 workers from across Winnipeg, ranging from metal workers to telephone operators, united to spark the largest worker revolt in Canadian history. Even the Winnipeg police voted to … | 340 | View |
