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Allen Mills fonds

  • CA UWA 04.002, CA UWA 23.30
  • Person
  • 1911-2017; predominant 1970-1997

Allen Mills was born in 1945. His academic achievements include graduating with Honours from Trinity College at Dublin University in 1967; receiving an MA from York University in Toronto in 1968; and earning a PhD from University of Western Ontario in 1976. Mills has written articles focusing on Canadian Socialism, the Canadian Forum, early Winnipeg Radicalism, J.S. Woodsworth, Frank Scott, Ernest Gellner, and media in post-Communist Czechoslovakia. He was a visiting fellow at Edinburgh University in 1992 and that same year was a visiting lecturer at Charles University of Prague.

From 1971 until his retirement in 2018, Mills taught Political Science at the University of Winnipeg, where he was head of the department from 2000-2005 and from 2014-2016. For his long and distinguished career, Mills was awarded the title of Senior Scholar. An accomplished academic author, his publications include Fool For Christ: The Political Thought of J.S. Woodsworth in 1991 by the University of Toronto Press, and Citizen Trudeau: An Intellectual Biography 1944-1965 in 2016 by Oxford University Press. He was also the editor of the government and politics entries for the Encyclopedia of Manitoba from 2004 to 2007, which was published in November 2007. His research interests include Canadian politics, Canadian socialism and liberalism, eastern Europe and the thought of Trudeau, Charles Taylor and Will Kymlicka.

Institute of Urban Studies

  • University of Winnipeg 24.04
  • Corporate body
  • 1969-

Founded in 1969, the Institute of Urban Studies (IUS) was established with the mandate of assessing government housing practices and suggesting innovations for Winnipeg’s inner-city housing. In later years the mandate was expanded into consulting services and academic publications and conferences. The IUS is an independently operating branch of the University of Winnipeg and received it’s funding from the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (now the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation). The Institute has had a continuing focus over the years on Indigenous inner-city programs.

H.J. Schneider

  • Person
  • 1921-

Hans-Joachim (Hajo) Schneider was born in Germany in 1921 to parents Reinhard Schneider (1887-1983) and Irmgard née Dieffenbach (1891-1984). When he was six years old, him and his older sister Elisabeth (1919-?) and their parents migrated to Canada, becoming one of the original settling families of Little Britain, Manitoba. Hans-Joachin married Gabriele Philippi (1932-) and the two had four children together between 1961 and 1967: Roland, Christian, Friederike, and Bertram.

Monika Gampenrieder

  • Person
  • ? -

Monika Gampenrieder (?-) is the daughter of Alois Höpfl (1902-1961), who migrated to Canada in 1927, where he took odd jobs before coming to the Little Britain community. He stayed a very short time before moving on to other provinces, and eventually returning to Germany in 1938. He married in 1940 and Monika was born sometime after.

Chair in German-Canadian Studies, University of Winnipeg

  • GCS-Chair
  • Corporate body
  • 1989-

The Chair in German-Canadian Studies was established in 1989 with a grant from the Secretary of State's Program for Canadian Ethnic Studies and with a grant from a group of private philanthropists within the German-Canadian community of Winnipeg. It is affiliated with the History Department at the University of Winnipeg.

Schneider/Snyder Family

  • schneider
  • Family
  • 1897-

Frederick C. (Fritz) Schneider was born in Emmendingen, Germany in 1897. He served in the First World War before pursuing a doctorate degree in law at the age of 21. He graduated in 1920 from the Albert-Ludwig-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. In the same year, Mathilde (Thilde) Hölscher, born in 1895, completed her doctorate in medicine, also from the Albert-Ludwig-Universität. The two married in 1921 in Herne, Germany, where Thilde was born and raised. In 1922 Thilde gave birth to their eldest son, Hans, followed by their second child, Fred, in 1925. In 1926, Fritz and approximately 20 other families made the group purchase of farmland near Lockport, Manitoba, Canada. Fritz, Thilde and their two children emigrated from Germany to Canada in 1927, where they co-founded the Society Farms and Little Britain community. In 1928, their daughter Marianne was born, and in 1929, another daughter, Edith. Marianne was tragically killed c. 1930-31 in a farm-related accident. Just a few months later, son Wilfred was born. The date of birth for Fritz and Thilde's youngest child, Norbert (Bert), is unknown. From 1939 to 1942, Fritz was interned in four different locations: in Kananaskis (Alberta), City Jail (Manitoba), Petawawa (Ontario) and Gagetown (New Brunswick). During this time, Thilde and Fritz both petitioned for hearings and his release. Sometime after he was released, Fritz and his family relocated to Quebec to start a business venture. An exact date for the name change from Schneider to Snyder is unknown, but likely took place during or shortly after the Second World War. Fritz and Thilde remained in Quebec until Fritz's retirement in 1977, when the two relocated to Mexico. Thilde died in 1980, and Fritz spent much of his time in Mexico, coming back to Quebec sporadically. He was residing in Quebec upon his death in 1992. Four of their five adult children have since died: Hans c. 2003; Edith in 2007; Wilfred in 2012; and Fred in 2013.

Stephen Schipper

  • Person
  • 1955-

Schipper was born in Montreal, Quebec in 1955. He began studying at McGill University and transferred to the performing arts program at Bishop’s University. He was then accepted into the National Theatre School of Canada and graduated in 1978.

After graduation, Schipper worked around Canada as a theatre actor and director. From 1985-1987, he joined the Huron Country Playhouse in Ontario as Artistic Director. He moved to the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1987 as Associate Artistic Director, and in 1989 as Artistic Director until 2019. During this position, he also directed and developed plays for other theatres, primarily in Winnipeg but also elsewhere in Canada. In 2019 he moved to Brampton, Ontario as the Executive Artistic Director of the Rose Theatre where he remains to the present.

Schipper has received several awards and distinctions during his theatrical career. These include an Honourary Doctorate from both the University of Winnipeg in 2007 and the University of Manitoba in 2015. He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2012 and awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.

juice

  • juice
  • Corporate body
  • 2000-

juice is a publication featuring literary submissions from students at the University of Winnipeg. The journal has been created and edited by University of Winnipeg students annually since it was launched on September 28th, 2001, as part of the Winnipeg International Writer’s Festival. The journal’s mission is to act as a platform for student literary engagement and as a forum for novice writers to learn about the world of editing, proofing, printing, and publishing from professionals in the local writing community. Copies are sold on campus. Editions of juice contain a variety of creative literary works including: poetry, prose and nonfiction, postcard or flash fiction, short plays and art such as photography, comics, paintings, illustrations, etc. The journal allows University of Winnipeg students and recent alumni to publish their creative work. juice is a student run initiative out of the English Department at the University of Winnipeg and managed by student editors and an Editorial Board (“Juice Journal: English”).

Brown, Wilson B.

  • brown-wilson-b
  • Person
  • 1938-2017

Dr. Wilson Bertram Brown was an American economist, professor, and poet who taught at the University of Winnipeg from 1983 until his retirement in 2004.

Born April 12, 1938 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Livingston, Brown –known to his family as “Bill”-- started writing poetry at age 18, encouraged by his mother, Alberta Doris Brown (nee Ham) and grandmother Rose Ham (nee Wiedmann). He was the first member of his family to attend university, where he wrote “The West Land,” a satire about Brown University’s student residences (1961). Appearing in Brown University’s student newspaper, it was his only published poem until the posthumous release of his collected works, An Economist Writes Poetry, in 2022.

At Brown University (1957-1961), he majored in international relations, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. During that time, he met fellow student Jennifer S.H. Brown and they married in 1963. That same year, he won a Fulbright fellowship to study the Peruvian economy in Lima, Peru. Brown proceeded to earn a Master of Arts from Cambridge University (Boston, Massachusetts, 1964) and a PhD in international affairs from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (1966).

Brown began his academic career as Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine (1965-1968), later moving to Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois to take on the position of Associate Professor of Marketing. Brown won another Fulbright grant to study at Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 1977-1978. In 1983, Brown and his family moved to Winnipeg, where he served as Professor of Economics at the University of Winnipeg for the remainder of his career. For a time, he was a visiting scholar at University of Reading in England.

Brown’s professional writings include The New International Economics (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1979), Markets, Organizations and Information (e-book) (Elsevier Science, 2017), and International Economics in the Age of Globalization (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), which he co-authored with Jan S. Hogendorn. Brown continued to write after retirement. In 2013, two years after moving to Denver, Colorado, he and his wife co-authored Col. William Marsh: Vermont Patriot & Loyalist (Denver: Tiger Rock Press, 2013), a well-received biography of his wife’s ancestor, a United Empire Loyalist.

Family, friends, events, and personal interests play prominent roles in his poetry. These include the death of his infant daughter, Susanna, from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS); the friendship with his college roommate, Richard Kostelanetz; his love of music, nature, and genealogy; and the many summers spent at his wife’s family cottage in Georgian Bay, Ontario.

Brown died in Denver on May 15, 2017, leaving his wife Jennifer, a son, Matthew Harcourt Brown, and granddaughters Katherine Brown and Sophia Brown.

McGavin, Helen

  • mcgavin-h
  • Person
  • 1923-2015

Helen McGavin was born in 1923 in Carman, Manitoba. She was the youngest of five children all of whom received the Governor-General's gold medal for academic achievement in Grade 12. She was motivated to obtain a university education and teach at the university level because of her family's previous involvement in Canadian universities. Helen attended United College from 1941-1943 but left to work full time at Bank of Montreal in Winnipeg. In the fall of 1943, Helen began her registered nurse program which had a practicum at Winnipeg General Hospital. She received her degree in 1947 and, in 1948, was accepted to Columbia University in New York City to pursue a degree in Nursing Education. She graduated in 1950 and accepted a position at Wayne State University in Detroit as a part-time lecturer. She married a year later in 1951. After the birth of her daughters, the family moved to Los Alamitos, California in the early 1960s where Helen continued her education and became a Vice President of hospital administration at the Los Alamitos Medical Center. She died in 2015 in California.

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