Manitoba Organization: Association for Manitoba Archives

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Manitoba Day Awards | Sources

The Association for Manitoba Archives was established in 1992 through the merger of the Association of Manitoba Archivists (founded 1980) and the Manitoba Council of Archives. Each year around Manitoba Day, it presents awards recognizing noteworth research resulting from the use of archival collections in Manitoba.

Manitoba Day Awards

Year

Recipient

Type

Title

2007

J. M. “Jack” Bumsted

Book

St. John’s College: Faith and Education in Western Canada

Lorne Coulson

Exhibit

Images of the North

Carolyn Gray

Play

The Elmwood Visitation

Susan Elaine Gray

Book

I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River 1875-1940

John J. Friesen

Book

Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites

Guillermo Quinonez

Thesis

A Study of Medical Specialization: The History of the Department of Pathology of the Winnipeg General Hospital (1883-1957)

Donna Jacobs & Kat Polischuk

Murals

Transcona Community History

Ora Walker

Film

Transcona Remembers

2008

Gerald Bedford

Book

The University of Winnipeg, Volume II: The First Forty Years (1967-2007)

Jennifer Brown and Margaret Anne Lindsay

Book

The History of the Pimicikamak People to the Treaty Five Period

Russ Gourluck

Photos

The Encyclopedia of Manitoba

Esyllt Jones

Book

Influenza 1918: Disease, Death and Struggle in Winnipeg

Peter Letkemann

Book

The Ben Horch Story

Anne Molgat, Claude De Moissac and Georges Druwé

Book

Lettres des tranchées

Deidre Simmons

Book

Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives

2009

J. M. “Jack” Bumsted

Book

Lord Selkirk: A Life

Owen Clark

Book

Musical Ghosts: Manitoba’s Jazz and Dance Bands, 1914-1966

Louise Duguay

Book

Pauline Boutal Destin d’artiste

André Fauchon and Carol J. Harvey

Book

Saint-Boniface 1908-2008 reflets d’une ville

Gordon Goldsborough

Book

With One Voice: A History of Municipal Government in Manitoba

Paula Kelly

Films

Souvenirs

Jeff McKay

Film

40 Years of One Night Stands: The Story of Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Teyana Neufeld

Book

Vantage Points: A Collection of Stories From Southwest Manitoba, Volume 1

Christina Penner

Book

Widows of Hamilton House

Donna G. Sutherland

Book

Nahoway: A Distant Voice

2010

Susan MacWilliam

Video

F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N

Roger Godard

Project

Identifying the Manitoba Leg of the Dawson Trail

Randy Rostecki

Book

Armstrong’s Point: A History

Jennifer S. H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray

Book

Memories Myths and Dreams of an Objibwe Leader: William Berens, as told to A. Irving Hallowell

Council of the Town of Carberry

Project

Establishment of the Commercial Main Street Heritage Conservation District of the Town of Carberry

David G. McCrady

Book

Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands

Health Sciences Centre, Editorial Committee

Book

Healing & Hope: A History of the Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg

2011

Jim Blanchard

Book

Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age

Chris Charney

Film

Musical Ghosts

Ronald Friesen

Book

Pioneers of Cheese: A Social and Economic History of the Cheese Industry in Southern Manitoba 1880-1960

Pauline Greenhill

Book

Make the Night Hideous: Four English Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940

Harold Jantz

Book

Leaders Who Shaped Us: Canadian Mennonite Brethren 1910-2010

Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell

Book

When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrew and the Citizen’s Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike

Alison R. Marshall

Book

The Way of the Bachelor

Kevin Nikkel

Film

In the Shadow of the Company: Films of the Hudson’s Bay Company

Richard Stringer

Film

The Bishop Who Ate His Boots

2012

Dale Barbour

Book

Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967

Grace Evans, Donna Royer and Sally Ito

Book

A Manifest Presence 100 Years at St. Margaret’s

Audrhea E. Lande

Book

With Love to You All, Bogga S: Stories and Letters from the Remarkable Life of Sigurbjorg Stefansson

Joe Mackintosh

Book

Andy Dejarlis: The Life and Music of an Old-Time Fiddler

Arnie Neufeld and Bruce Wiebe

Project

Stones and Stories, A Collection of 335 Obituaries and Life Stories from Winkler and Area

Arthur J. Ray

Book

Telling it to the Judge, Taking Native History to Court

John K. Samson

Album

Provincial, a thematic album focused on Manitoba

Gail Sawatzky and Bev Friesen

Project

Mennonite Women Evolving

Danny Schur

Film

Mike’s Bloody Saturday

Jaroslav Z. Skira and Karim Schelkens

Book

The Second Vatican Council Diaries of Met. Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R (1960-1965)

Ron Stevens

Book

Much Ado About Squat: Squatters and Homesteaders Ravage Riding Mountain Forest

Robert Sweeney

Book

Portraits of Winnipeg, the River City in Pen and Ink

Andrew Wall

Film

The Paper Nazis

2013

John C. Lehr

Book

Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland

Shannon Stunden Bower

Book

Wet Prairie – People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

Matt Henderson

Book

Because of a Hat

Bernard Bocquel

Book

Les Fidèles à Riel 125 ans d’évolution de l’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba Un récit journalistique (Matière à réflexion)

Bruce Owen

Article

“Mayhem Under Main,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 October 2012

University of Manitoba Press

Blog

Lost Foote Photos

Barb Flemington

Exhibit

translate

2014

Abigail Auld

Project

WPGxHBC

Esther Epp-Tiessen

Book

Mennonite Central Committee in Canada: A History

Aaron Floresco and Rhonda Hinther

Film

The Ukrainian Labour Temple

Annie Langlois and Thomas Bres

Exhibit

Ma langue, Ma Liberté

Carol Matas

Book

Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz

Michael Payne, Ted Binnema and Gerhard Ens

Book

Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence & Reports, 1806-1821

Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd

Paper

“From Colonization to Right Relations: The Evolution of United Church of Canada Missions within Aboriginal Communities,” The Theology of the United Church of Canada

Caryn Douglas

Website

www.uccdeaconesshistory.ca

Nick Ternette

Book

Rebel Without a Pause: A Memoire

Diane Truderung

Book

Transcona’s Story - 100 Years of Progress

2015

Randy Turner and Melissa Tait

Book

City Beautiful: How Architecture Shaped Winnipeg’s DNA

Kevin Nikkel

Films

Romance of the Far Fur Country & On the Trail of the Far Fur Country

Jody Perrun

Book

The Patriotic Consensus: Unity, Morale, and the Second World War in Winnipeg

Suyoko Tsukamoto

Exhibit

Brandon College and the Great War

Will Woodward

Project

The role of women in the First World War and Canada’s contribution to the war effort

Royden Loewen

Book

Village Among Nations: “Canadian” Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006

Athanasius D. McVay

Book

God’s Martyr, History’s Witness: Blessed Nykyta Budka, the First Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Canada

Ryan McKenna

Film

Controversies

Kristin Tresoor

Project

BMO in Winnipeg

The Aboriginal Advisory Committee

Project

Preserving the History of Aboriginal Institutional Development in Winnipeg

2016

Stephen Haddelsey

Book

Operation Tabarin: Britain’s Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica, 1944-46

Mary Jane McCallum

Book

Indigenous Women, Work and History 1940-1980

Ernest N. Braun and Glen R. Klassen

Book

Historical Atlas of the East Reserve

Glen Suggett and Gordon Goldsborough

Book

Delta: A Prairie Marsh and Its People

Dale Gibson

Books

Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volumes 1 & 2

Orest Martynowych

Film

The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film and the Life of Vasile Avramenko

Jacqueline Blay

Books

Histoire du Manitoba français: Sous le ciel de la Prairie, des débuts à 1870 (volume 1) & Le temps des outrages, 1870-1916 (volume 2)

Kristin Tresoor

Exhibit

Dr. Morley Cohen Plaque and Exhibit at Cardiac Sciences Unit, St. Boniface Hospital

Christy Henry, Eileen Trott, Graham Street, and Morganna Malyon

Exhibit

Gowen’s Brandon – Then & Now

Roland Sawatzky

Exhibit

Nice Women Don’t Want the Vote

Mennonite Heritage Centre

Website

Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID)

2017

C. Nathan Hatton

Book

Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling

Bernard Mulaire

Book

Caricatures

Andrew Wall

Film

The Last Objectors

2018

Barbara Mitchell

Book

Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment

Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon

Book

No Man's Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton

Maureen Hunter

Film

Sarah Ballenden

Andrea Martin and Tyyne Petrowski

Exhibit

Voices from Vimy: Manitobans on the Ridge

2019

Lucienne Beaudry Loiselle

Book

Le Festival du Voyageur Hé Ho!: Une célébration de culture et de patrimoine

Sarah Story, Victor Harper, Emma Harper, and Connie Singleterry

Exhibition

Bear Lake Stevenson River Knowledge Preservation Project

StrongFront.tv

Film

Urban Eclipse: Rising Tides of Kekekoziibii

2020

Jean Teillet

Book

The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation

David Spector

Book

Assiniboine Park: Designing and Developing a People's Playground

University of Manitoba History 3442 Class

Exhibition

History blog

Mariia Kryvosheieva

Exhibition

Manitoba Pioneers: The First Steps
Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre (Oseredok), 21 January to 3 March 2020

Andrew Wall

Film

Volendam: A Refugee Story

2021

Susie Fisher, Frieda Esau Klippenstein, Roland Sawatzky, and Conrad Stoesz

Book

Mennonite Village Photography: Views from Manitoba 1890-1940

Steve Heinrichs and Esther Epp-Tiessen (eds.)

Book

Be It Resolved: Anabaptists and Partner Coalitions Advocate for Indigenous Justice

Mary Jane McCallum and Erin Millions

Exhibition / Project

Indigenous Afternoons in the Archives [of Manitoba]

Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge

Film / Theatre

One Great History (podcast)

2022

Gordon Brian “Gord” McDiarmid (1941-2021)

Popular Book

We Were Builders from Scotland: The Story of One Company that Helped Build Western Canada

Chantal Fiola

Scholarly Book

Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities

Royden Loewen

Scholarly Book

Mennonite Farmers: A Global History of Place and Sustainability

Riva Symko

Exhibition / Project

The Alloways’ Gift and R. Favell’s Family (WAG)

2024

Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson

Popular Book

Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

Serena Keshavjee (editor)

Scholarly Book

The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters With Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs

Andrea Klassen and Gary Dyck (curators)

Exhibition

Leaving Canada: The Mennonite Migration to Mexico

Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Erin Millions, Anne Lindsay, Ruth Christie, Laura Bergen, Wade Clarke, Kristina Colmer, Chloe McLeod

Resources and Educational Materials

Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project: Website, Research Guide, and Five Videos

Sources:

Association for Manitoba Archives

We thank Rachelle Ross and Brian Hubner for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 June 2024