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Archives Awards Announced

On 16 May 2013, at the Western Canada Aviation Museum, the Association for Manitoba Archives honoured seven recipients with its 7th Annual Manitoba Day Awards. The award recognizes recipients that have used archival resources from member archives in a variety of creative, exciting, and thought-provoking ways to highlight aspects of Manitoba’s history:

Recipient	Citation
John C. Lehr	for his book Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland published by the University of Manitoba Press
Shannon Stunden Bower	for her book Wet Prairie – People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba published by the UBC Press
Bruce Owen	for his article “Mayhem Under Main” published in the Winnipeg Free Press, 6 October 2012
Matt Henderson	for a project where his grade 11 students at St. John’s Ravenscourt School conducted a research visit to the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and then created short stories about the development of the Red River settlement which were then published as the collection titled “Because of a Hat”
Barb Flemington	for the art exhibit translate which combined archival photographs with 100-year-old chalkboard slate for an exhibit at the Tommy McLeod Curve Gallery in the John E. Robbins Library at Brandon University
Bernard Bocquel	for the book  “Les Fidèles à Riel 125 ans d’évolution de l’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba Un récit journalistique (Matière à réflexion)”  which highlights the l’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba records at the St. Boniface Historical Society
The University of Manitoba Press	for the blog “Lost Foote Photos” http://lostfootephotos.blogspot.ca which showcased the photos of L. B. Foote alongside stories solicited from the community about those photos and was created in support of their recent book Imagining Winnipeg: History Through the Photographs of L. B. Foote

The award was first presented in 2007. Previous recipients have included: songwriter and singer John K. Sampson, playwright Danny Schur, filmmaker Kevin Nikkel, historian Randy Rostecki, and author Jack Bumsted, among others. Recipients are selected from nominations made by members of the Association.

Posted: 18 May 2013

Winners of 2012 Margaret McWilliams Awards Announced

Today, for Manitoba Day 2013, the Manitoba Historical Society announces the recipients of its 2012 Margaret McWilliams Awards for excellence in writing about Manitoba history, in three categories: scholarly history, local history, and popular history. Books nominated for the award have been published in the 2012 calendar year.

The award recipients are as follows:

	Inside the Ark: The Hutterites in Canada and the United States by Yossi Katz & John Lehr University of Regina Press More information on this book here
	For Elise: Unveiling the Forgotten Woman on the Criddle Homestead by Oriole A. Vane Veldhuis More information on this book here
	Silver Screens on the Prairie: An Illustrated History of Motion Picture Theatres in Manitoba by Russ Gourluck Great Plains Publications More information on this book here

The awards will be presented to authors and publishers in a ceremony on Saturday, 8 June 2013, at Dalnavert Museum (61 Carlton Street, Winnipeg).

The Manitoba Historical Society congratulations the award recipients and extends its thanks to the authors of other fine books short-listed this year.

The award, one of Canada’s oldest literary prizes, was created in 1955 to honour noted Manitoba feminist, historian, and author Margaret Stovell McWilliams. She was first President of the Canadian Federation of University Women in 1919, President of the Women’s Canadian Club in 1922, President of the Manitoba Historical Society from 1944 to 1948, and Winnipeg’s second female Alderman from 1933 to 1940. McWilliams was the author of Manitoba Milestones (1928), If I Were King of Canada (1931), and This New Canada (1948).

Posted: 12 May 2013

Lieutenant Governor Recognizes Five With Historical Award

In a ceremony at Government House on 9 May, Lieutenant Governor Philip S. Lee recognized five Manitobans for their contributions to the preservation and promotion of Manitoba history. Those recognized were as follows:

Margruite Krahn (Neubergthal)
Bette Mueller (Manitou)
Randy Rostecki (Winnipeg)
Linda Shewchuk (Gardenton)
Ken Smith (Hamiota)

Recipients of the 2013 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion
Back row (L-R): Ken Smith, Bette Mueller, Randy Rostecki, Margruite Krahn, Linda Shewchuk.
Front row (L-R): Harry Duckworth (MHS Past President), Gordon Goldsborough (MHS Webmaster), Lieutenant Governor Philip Lee, Anita Lee, James Kostuchuk (MHS Vice-President)
Source: Tracey Goncalves (Manitoba Government Photographer)

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Award Citations

Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Historical Preservation and Promotion

Posted: 9 May 2013, updated 21 May 2013

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