Allan G. Levine

Historian, teacher, author.

Born in Winnipeg in 1956, he attended the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto, receiving a PhD in history from the latter, in 1985. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the history of the grain business in Winnipeg. He worked as a research assistant to Peter C. Newman for his three-volume history of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He writes articles and reviews for such publications as the Globe and Mail, the Winnipeg Free Press, and the National Post and he writes books of fiction and non-fiction. Since 1984, he has taught history and world issues at St. John’s-Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Review:
Jewish Life and Times: A Collection of Essays
Manitoba History, Number 8, Autumn 1984

Review:
David H. Breen, The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier 1874-1924
Manitoba History, Number 9, Spring 1985

Review:
Michael Usiskin, translated by Marcia Usiskin Basman, Uncle Mike’s Edenbridge: Memoirs of a Jewish Pioneer Farmer
Manitoba History, Number 10, Autumn 1985

More information:

Web site for Allan Levine

Profile revised: 9 May 2009