Gordon Goldsborough

Environmental scientist, educator, historian, webmaster.

Email: webmaster@mhs.mb.ca

A member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba, prior to moving to the University in 1996, he worked for seven years at Brandon University and four years at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He has also been employed as a Research Scientist by the Manitoba Department of Environment (now Manitoba Conservation & Water Stewardship).

He specializes on studying the impacts of humans on the aquatic environment, water quality, and the ecology of plants and algae in wetlands and lakes. He has published articles in scientific journals and has contributed to three books. He is a member of the Society of Wetland Scientists and the International Society of Limnology. He is involved actively in water policy development, being the founding Chair of the Lake Manitoba Stewardship Board, and a member of the Lake Manitoba Lake St. Martin Regulation Review Committee, Manitoba Water Council, and the International Red River Board of the Canada-US International Joint Commission.

As a member of the Manitoba Historical Society, he has served as First Vice-President (2003-2004), President (2004-2006), Past-President (2006-2008), Secretary (2010-2013), Chair and member of the Management Committee for Dalnavert Museum (2004-2010), Webmaster, Gazette and Photo Editor of Manitoba History.

In 2008, he wrote the book With One Voice, A History of Municipal Governance in Manitoba for the Association of Manitoba Municipalities.

Goldsborough at the site of Samuel Hearne’s signature on a rock at Sloop Cove near Churchill (1983)
Source: M. Zbigniewicz

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Reginald Buller: The Poet-Scientist of Mushroom City
Manitoba History, Number 47, Spring/Summer 2004

Science Comes to Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 47, Spring/Summer 2004

President’s Message - Introduction
Keywords, Volume 36, Number 6, August/September 2004

President’s Message - Publish or Perish
Keywords, Volume 37, Number 1, October/November 2004

President’s Message - Active Membership
Keywords, Volume 37, Number 2, December 2004 / January 2005

President’s Message - Let’s Talk!
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 3, February/March 2005

President’s Message - History in the Privacy Age
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 4, April/May 2005

A Thousand Words: The Yukon Party from Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 49, June 2005

President’s Message - Digitized Books Versus Digital Books
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 5, June/July 2005

President’s Message - Living History
Time Lines, Volume 37, Number 6, August/September 2005

A Thousand Words: Winnipeg’s Silent Film Star
Manitoba History, Number 50, October 2005

President’s Message - Visual History
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 1, October/November 2005

President’s Message - The Inaccessible Information Age
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 2, December 2005 / January 2006

A Union of Manitoba Municipalities
Manitoba History, Number 51, February 2006

President’s Message - The Benefits of Membership
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 3, February/March 2006

President’s Message - Let’s Work Together
Time Lines, Volume 38, Number 4, April-June 2006

Greening the Treeless Plain
Manitoba History, Number 53, October 2006

Review:
Christine Mazur, Simon Statkewich, and David Relkoff, eds., Manitoba Climbers: A Century of Stories from the Birthplace of The Alpine Club of Canada
Manitoba History, Number 53, October 2006

Review:
Ted Stone, The Story Behind Manitoba Names: How Cities, Towns, Villages and Whistle Stops Got Their Names (PDF)
Time Lines, Volume 39, Number 1, November/December 2006

Victorian Virtual Reality
Manitoba History, Number 54, February 2007

Manitoba in 3D

Greetings from Winnipeg: Views of a Changing City
Manitoba History, Number 55, June 2007

Long-Term Trends in the Water Quality of Killarney Lake
Manitoba History, Number 55, June 2007

HSI: Historical Scene Investigation
Manitoba History, Number 58, June 2008

Manitoba’s War on Wildlife
Manitoba History, Number 59, October 2008

Winnipeg: Then and Now

Manitobans As They Saw 'Em - 1909
Manitoba History, Number 64, Fall 2010

A Remedy for Wooden Legs and Dead Hands: The Early Years of the Winnipeg Foundation
Manitoba History, Number 66, Spring 2011

“Fresh Air for Kiddies”: The Fresh Air Camps of Lake Winnipeg
Manitoba History, Number 66, Spring 2011

Roblin City: A Gleaming Metropolis on the Bay
Manitoba History, Number 68, Spring 2012

Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee in Manitoba
Manitoba History, Number 69, Summer 2012

Profile revised: 14 April 2013