This week, historians from across Canada will gather in St. John’s College to discuss what it means to live on the prairies.
In 2008, a group of historians at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University revived the traveling, bi-annual Western Canadian Studies Conferences of the 1970s and 80s. The University of Manitoba’s St John’s College […]

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INFORMATION MANAGERS MEETING IN WINNIPEG THIS WEEK
The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) will be held this week in Winnipeg on September 14 and 15, 2010, at the Fairmont Hotel.
More than 100 members of the organization, representing library directors, university administrators, IT and financial personnel from across Canada will be joined […]

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The University of Manitoba is proud to support and empower members of the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) as they work toward understanding the legacy of Indian residential school and try to engage all Canadians in a process of individual and collective reconciliation.
To this end, the University of Manitoba is significantly involved […]

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A large body of work by noted photographer Henry Kalen has been donated to the University of Manitoba. In total, the photograph collection consists of 113,783 slides, 69,774 negatives, 13,125 transparencies, and 10,584 prints.�

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Vanessa Warne, English, film and theatre, will deliver the first Elizabeth Dafoe memorial Lecture on Oct. 1, 2009. Her talk is titled: From City Street to Library: Blind Readers in Victorian Britain.
In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, the facts of blindness changed: people who could not see acquired both the ability and opportunity […]

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A major component of community life is the landmarks, monuments and built heritage within that community.  Canadian historians have often claimed that the physical and geographical heritage of Canadians has played a key role in the development of our identity as a nation.  Western Canadians, in particular, have been shaped by their landscapes and architecture.  […]

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