Memorable Manitobans: Walter Harold Hildebrandt (1951-2021)

Historian.

Born at Brooks, Alberta on 2 January 1951, son of Gerhard Hildebrandt and Ilse Goetze, the family moved to Saskatoon where he received an MA degree in History. There, he met his wife Sarah Carter and they moved to Winnipeg in 1979 where he worked as an historian with Parks Canada. They moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1992 and to Edmonton, Alberta in 2006. He was director of the University of Calgary Press and later Athabasca University Press. He wrote several books. He died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 11 October 2021.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Review: C. B. Koester, Mr. Davin, M.P.: A Biography of Nicolas Davin
Manitoba History, Number 3, 1982

Review: Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion
Manitoba History, Number 10, Autumn 1985

Review: John S. Milloy, The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy and War, 1790 to 1870
Manitoba History, Number 20, Autumn 1990

Review: Helen Buckley, From Wooden Ploughs to Welfare: Why Indian Policy Failed in the Prairie Provinces
Manitoba History, Number 27, Spring 1994

Sources:

Obituary, Edmonton Journal, 14 October 2021.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 March 2022

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