Manitoba Organization: Manitoba Record Society

This non-profit organization was formed in 1960 by the Manitoba Historical Society as an independent body focused on making historical documents and other important, rare materials more readily available. Its first book was published in 1965 and, over the next three decades, it published twelve books before disbanding officially in April 2007.

The books published by the Society were the following, in chronological order:

Title	Volume Editor	General Editor	Year
Manitoba: The Birth of a Province	William Lewis “Bill” Morton	William David “Bill” Smith	1965
The Dafoe-Sifton Correspondence, 1919-1927	Ramsay Cook	William David “Bill” Smith	1966
The James Wickes Taylor Correspondence, 1859-1870	Hartwell Walter Lewis “Hart” Bowsfield	William David “Bill” Smith	1968
The Diary of the Reverend Henry Budd, 1870-1875	Katherine Pettipas	William David “Bill” Smith	1974
Gateway City: Documents on the City of Winnipeg, 1873-1913	Alan F. J. Artibise	A. Brian McKillop	1979
Phillips in Print: The Selected Writings of Walter J. Phillips on Canadian Nature and Art	Maria Tippett and Douglas Cole	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	1982
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk, 1799-1809	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	1984
The Wheat King: Selected Letters and Papers of A. J. Cotton, 1888-1913	Wendy Owen	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	1985
The Collected Writings of Lord Selkirk, 1810-1820	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	1987
The Modern Beginnings of Subarctic Ornithology: Northern Correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution, 1856-1868	Debra Lindsay	John Michael “Jack” Bumsted	1991
Ottawa at War: The Grant Dexter Memoranda, 1939-1945	Frederick W. Gibson and Barbara Robertson	Debra Lindsay	1994
A Great Movement Underway: Women and The Grain Growers’ Guide, 1908-1928	Barbara E. Kelcey and Angela E. Davis	Debra Lindsay	1997

Sources:

“Historical group receives award for its work,” Winnipeg Tribune, 16 June 1961, page 35.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 9 December 2025