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Wendy Owen

Historian, educator, bookseller.

Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

The Victorian Family in Canada in Historical Perspective: The Ross Family of Red River and the Jarvis Family of Prince Edward Island
Manitoba History, Number 13, Spring 1987

The Cost of Farm-Making in Early Manitoba: The Strategy of Almon James Cotton as a Case Study
Manitoba History, Number 18, Autumn 1989

Review: Kenneth S. Coates and William R. Morrison (editors), “My Dear Maggie”: Letters From a Western Manitoba Pioneer by William Wallace
Manitoba History, Number 26, Autumn 1993

Review: Virginia G. Berry, Taming the Frontier: Art and Women in the Canadian West 1880-1920
Manitoba History, Number 54, February 2007

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