Harl A. Dalstrom

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Harl Dalstrom
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Historian.

He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where his specialty was local, state, and regional history. He also taught an introductory course on the history of Canada. A long-time summer resident of Longbow Lake, near Kenora, Ontario, he is especially interested in the history of the lands adjoining the mid-continent segment of the Canada-US boundary. His writings include “We were not worried at dinner time”: The October 1938 Forest Fires and the Last Frontier in the Rainy River-Lake of the Woods Borderland (Emo, ON: Rainy River District Women’s Institute Museum, 2009), which he co-authored with his wife, Kay Calamé Dalstrom.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Homicide on the Canada-US Border
Manitoba History, Number 73, Autumn 2013

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