Robert Coutts

Historian.

Robert Coutts, a professional historian for twenty-five years, is now the Manager of Heritage Presentation at the Western and Northern Service Centre of Parks Canada. Currently the Editor-in-Chief of Manitoba History, he is the author of the book The Road to the Rapids: Nineteenth-Century Church and Society at St. Andrew’s, Red River (2000) and co-author of Voices from Hudson Bay: Cree Stories from York Factory (1996). Robert has published in the areas of fur trade and Native history in journals in Canada, the United States, and Britain.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Site Review: The Quarry Park at Stonewall, Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 10, Autumn 1985

Review: Jennifer S. H. Brown and Robert Brightman, “The Orders of the Dreamed”: George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823
Manitoba History, Number 19, Spring 1990

The Forks and the Battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba History
Edited by Robert Coutts and Richard Stuart

An Interview With World War I Veteran, Evan Wales Morgan
Manitoba History, Number 33, Spring 1997

Review: Frank Tough, “As Their Natural Resources Fail:” Native Peoples and the Economic History of Northern Manitoba, 1870-1930
Manitoba History, Number 35, Spring/Summer 1998

The Art of W. J. Phillips
Manitoba History, Number 52, June 2006

Profile revised: 31 July 2008