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Gordon Goldsborough
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Environmental scientist, educator, historian.
Email: gordon@mhs.mb.ca
A Senior Scholar in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba, prior to moving to the University in 1996, he worked for seven years at Brandon University and four years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He was also employed as a Research Scientist by the Manitoba Department of Environment. In retirement, he continues to teach an undergraduate course in wetland ecology.
He has researched the impacts of humans on the aquatic environment, water quality, and the ecology of plants and algae in wetlands and lakes. He has published articles in scientific journals and has contributed to three scientific books. He was a member of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Lake Manitoba Regulation Review Advisory Committee (2001-2004), Lake Manitoba Stewardship Board (founding Chair, 2007-2012), Lake Manitoba Lake St. Martin Regulation Review Committee (2011-2013), Manitoba Water Council (member 2007-2014, Chair 2014-2018), and International Red River Board of the Canada-US International Joint Commission (2003-2018).
As an active member of the Manitoba Historical Society, he has served as its Vice-President (2003-2004, 2017-2019), President (2004-2006, 2019-2022), Past-President (2006-2008, 2022-2024), Secretary (2010-2013), member and Chair of the Management Committee for Dalnavert Museum (2004-2010), Pageant Editor and Production Coordinator of Manitoba History and its successor Prairie History (2005-present), and Webmaster (2003-present). He has also served as a member of the City of Winnipeg’s Historical Buildings and Resources Committee (2017-2019), Heritage Committee of Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba (2014-present), Legislative Building Restoration and Preservation Advisory Committee (2019-2021), and Board Secretary for the Manitoba Agricultural Museum (2017-present). He does a weekly column “Abandoned Manitoba” on the CBC Radio 1 Weekend Morning Show (2015-present) and contributes weekly columns “This Old Elevator” and “The Past Lane” to the Manitoba Co-operator (2015-present).
He has written five books: With One Voice, A History of Municipal Governance in Manitoba (2008), Delta: A Prairie Marsh and Its People (2015, co-written with Glen Suggett), Abandoned Manitoba (2016), and More Abandoned Manitoba (2018). The latter won the 2019 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. His fifth book, published in October 2023, is On the Road to Abandoned Manitoba. It received a Margaret McWilliams Award (2024).
His community service has been recognized by a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), University of Manitoba Outreach Award (2001), Douglas Kemp Award (2009), Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal (2022), and King Charles III Coronation Medal (2024). He was inducted into the Order of Manitoba (2021).
Goldsborough at the site of Samuel Hearne’s signature on a rock at Sloop Cove near Churchill (1983)
Source: Maria Zbigniewicz
His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Reginald Buller: The Poet-Scientist of Mushroom City
Manitoba History, Number 47, Spring/Summer 2004Science Comes to Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 47, Spring/Summer 2004President’s Message - Introduction
Keywords, Volume 36, Number 6, August/September 2004President’s Message - Publish or Perish
Keywords, Volume 37, Number 1, October/November 2004President’s Message - Active Membership
Keywords, Volume 37, Number 2, December 2004 / January 2005President’s Message - Let’s Talk!
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 3, February/March 2005President’s Message - History in the Privacy Age
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 4, April/May 2005A Thousand Words: The Yukon Party from Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 49, June 2005President’s Message - Digitized Books Versus Digital Books
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 5, June/July 2005President’s Message - Living History
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 6, August/September 2005A Thousand Words: Winnipeg’s Silent Film Star
Manitoba History, Number 50, October 2005President’s Message - Visual History
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 1, October/November 2005President’s Message - The Inaccessible Information Age
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 2, December 2005 / January 2006A Union of Manitoba Municipalities
Manitoba History, Number 51, February 2006President’s Message - The Benefits of Membership
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 3, February/March 2006President’s Message - Let’s Work Together
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 4, April-June 2006Greening the Treeless Plain
Manitoba History, Number 53, October 2006Review: Christine Mazur, Simon Statkewich, and David Relkoff, eds., Manitoba Climbers: A Century of Stories from the Birthplace of The Alpine Club of Canada
Manitoba History, Number 53, October 2006Review: Ted Stone, The Story Behind Manitoba Names: How Cities, Towns, Villages and Whistle Stops Got Their Names (PDF)
Time Lines, Volume 39, Number 1, November/December 2006Victorian Virtual Reality
Manitoba History, Number 54, February 2007MHS Resources: Manitoba in 3D
Greetings from Winnipeg: Views of a Changing City
Manitoba History, Number 55, June 2007Long-Term Trends in the Water Quality of Killarney Lake
Manitoba History, Number 55, June 2007Review: Cliff White and E. J. (Ted) Hart, The Lens of Time: A Repeat Photography of Landscape Change in the Canadian Rockies
Manitoba History, Number 57, February 2008HSI: Historical Scene Investigation
Manitoba History, Number 58, June 2008Manitoba’s War on Wildlife
Manitoba History, Number 59, October 2008MHS Historical Features: Winnipeg: Then and Now
Manitobans As They Saw 'Em - 1909
Manitoba History, Number 64, Fall 2010A Remedy for Wooden Legs and Dead Hands: The Early Years of the Winnipeg Foundation
Manitoba History, Number 66, Spring 2011“Fresh Air for Kiddies”: The Fresh Air Camps of Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba History, Number 66, Spring 2011Roblin City: A Gleaming Metropolis on the Bay
Manitoba History, Number 68, Spring 2012Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee in Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 69, Summer 2012Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba’s Concrete Block Buildings
Manitoba History, Number 72, Spring-Summer 2013Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba’s Historic Bridges
Manitoba History, Number 73, Fall 2013Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba’s Historic One-Room Schoolhouses
Manitoba History, Number 74, Winter 2014Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba’s Military Monuments
Manitoba History, Number 76, Fall 2014Historic Sites of Manitoba: The Postage Stamp Province
Manitoba History, Number 78, Summer 2015Dan Bain: The Squire of Delta Marsh
Manitoba History, Number 80, Spring 2016Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rise of the Concrete Giants
Manitoba History, Number 81, Summer 2016Historic Sites of Manitoba: The Grain Elevator Countdown
Manitoba History, Number 85, Fall 2017Abandoned Manitoba: Winnipeg’s Carnegie Library
Manitoba History, Number 88, Winter 2018Editorial: The State of Heritage in Manitoba: A Call to Action
Prairie History, Number 9, Fall 2022Review: Terry Dann, Land Title: A Novel of the Prairies
Prairie History, Number 9, Fall 2022MHS Resources: Manitoba Bricks and Blocks
Abandoned Manitoba: Winnipeg’s Palace Theatre
Prairie History, Number 12, Fall 2023
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