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George Buri

Historian.

He is a sessional lecturer at Brandon University and a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. He is currently finishing his dissertation entitled “Between Education and Catastrophe: Education and the Project of Post-World War II Reconstruction in Manitoba.”

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

“Enemies Within Our Gates:” Brandon’s Alien Detention Centre During the Great War
Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007

Page revised: 27 July 2008