On a beaucoup écrit sur Louis Riel, le politicien le plus connu de l’Ouest canadien. Bien qu’on ne compte plus les biographies sur Riel, bien peu d’entre elles traitent de la signification de ses...
Search Results
Search found 7 item
-
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary: -
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
With roots going back to the Red River Settlement in the 1850s, Winnipeg’s St. John’s College is the oldest Anglophone educational institution in Western Canada. First founded as a school for the...
-
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
-
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
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. A product of the Scottish Enlightenment and...
-
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
Founded in 1877, just seven years after the birth of the province itself, the University of Manitoba has been inextricably bound with the history and life of Manitoba and western Canada. Begun as...
-
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
Manitoba has been at the crossroads of many of the important debates and events in Canadian history. From the early fur trade to the Riel Rebellion to the Winnipeg General Strike, Manitobans have...
-
Author: Bumsted, J. M.Summary:
What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted’s new look at some of the...