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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.
Year
Recipient
Type
Title
2007
Book
St. John’s College: Faith and Education in Western Canada
Lorne Coulson
Exhibit
Images of the North
Carolyn Gray
Play
The Elmwood Visitation
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
Book
The University of Winnipeg, Volume II: The First Forty Years (1967-2007)
Book
The History of the Pimicikamak People to the Treaty Five Period
Photos
The Encyclopedia of Manitoba
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
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
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
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
Book
Armstrong’s Point: A History
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
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
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
Book
Make the Night Hideous: Four English Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Book
Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland
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
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
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
Book
Delta: A Prairie Marsh and Its People
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
Roland Sawatzky
Exhibit
Nice Women Don’t Want the Vote
Mennonite Heritage Centre
Website
Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID)
2017
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
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 2020Andrew 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
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
