The University of Winnipeg Archives is responsible for the effective and efficient management of records created by the University and its predecessor bodies, as well as selected records created by non-University entities.

The Archives is the steward of the records of the University of Winnipeg and its founding colleges: Manitoba College, Wesley College, and United College. The records support the University's governance, administration, and strategic directions, and preserve its institutional memory and documentary heritage.

The Archives stewards records from individuals or organizations connected with the University, including its faculty, staff, administration, or alumni, and records relevant to the University's strategic directions, research and teaching, or service mandate. The Archives also provides stewardship for rare publications and special collections that support the teaching, research, and service mandates of the University and its communities.

Janis Lee Thiessen was born in 1971 to Frank Thiessen (1925-2005) and Margret (Loewen) Thiessen (1933-) of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She completed her B.Sc. in 1992 and her education degree in 1994 and became a teacher at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate in Winnipeg, Manitoba where she has taught chemistry, social studies and Mennonite history. She received her M.A. from the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba in 1997, during which time she worked on the Metropolis project, Winnipeg's Immigration History Research Group.

She took two years leave from Westgate to work on Ph.D. studies at the University of New Brunswick, which she successfully completed with the defense of her thesis entitled "Faith and Factory: Russian Mennonite Workers in Twentieth Century Manitoba" on November 9, 2005. Her research focused on three factories in Manitoba owned by Mennonites, namely Friesens Corporation of Altona, Loewen Windows of Steinbach, and Palliser Furniture of Winnipeg. Each of these businesses had primarily a Mennonite workforce at their founding and they each became the largest employer in their community. The interviews and thesis explored themes such as immigration, unions, assimilation, urbanization, class differences, worker and employer relationships and religious values.

Since 1994 some of her research on Canadian Mennonite labour history has appeared in publications such as Studies in Religion, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Mennonite Quarterly Review and Journal of Mennonite Studies. She has also given several presentations on the same topic since 1995.

Catherine Macdonald was the United Church of Canada Archivist for the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario (now Prairie to Pine Region) from 1975-1986 and started a historical research consulting business called Prairie Connections. She is now an author of mystery novels. She is a UW graduate (BA, Hons, 1971) and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Manitoba Fantasy Book Club was founded in 1970 by a small group of fantasy literature fans based at the University of Manitoba. The group served to connect fantasy readers from across the province by organizing book sharing programs, reading and discussion events, and group trips to fantasy/sci-fi conventions. From 1978 to 1984, the club published a bi-annual fanzine, "Knights and Bisons". In 1985, several members split off from the club to form the Manitoba Sci-Fi Club. The Club went defunct from 1986 to 1987 before several members revived it in 1988. In 1990, the Club organized its first and only convention, BisonCon, at the University of Manitoba. In 1991, the Club voted to merge with the Manitoba Speculative Fiction Society, which itself later split into several regional groups in the following years. In 2010, several of the founding members reunited at the informal BisonCon2010 event to celebrate the Club's forty-year anniversary.

Peter Dubois was born on August 3, 1843 at Kildonan in Red River (modern Winnipeg). His parents were the merchant John Dubois and Mary Sinclair. He was educated at the Anglican St. John's College. He was a member and Speaker of the first Legislative Council of Manitoba, a Rector's Warden at St. John's Cathedral, and Sheriff of Manitoba for 52 years. He died in 1934 and is buried in St. John's Cemenetary. Peter and his wife Ann Tait (1852-1925) had five children: Rupert Finleyson Dubois (1874-1930), Peter Robertson Sinclair Dubois (1876-1961), Myra Jane McMurray Dubois (1878-1938), Annie Sibyl McKay Dubois (1880-1974), and James Richard Hardisty Dubois (1886-1970). Rupert F. Dubois worked as a bank manager and immigration official before succeeding his father as Sheriff in 1928. Sibyl was the last family member to live in the family home, the Bleak House, which is now a historic site on 1637 Main Street, Winnipeg. The family also owned and farmed the Oxbow Woods area on Lake Manitoba in the early twentieth century.

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.