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Manitoba Fantasy Book Club

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  • Corporate body
  • 1970-1991

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.

Dubois Family

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  • Family
  • [185-?], ca. 1870s-1974

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 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.

Catherine Macdonald

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.

Macdonald, Catherine

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Macdonald is the former United Church Archivist and contract historian/archivist. She was contracted to conduct an oral history project on the Crowe Case in 1988-1989. She is a UW graduate (BA, Hons, 1971).

Hodgson, St Philip

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St. Philip’s Anglican Church is located in the community of Hodgson, in the Rural Municipality of Fisher, 90 miles north of Winnipeg. The Rev Maurice Sanderson was sent to the Peguis area and held services in private homes during the early years of the mission. Hodgson first appears in the 1913 Synod Journal and the parish was formed by Bishop SP Matheson on 16 April 1918. Fundraising for a church building began during the First World War. A Mrs Nosworthy from Liverpool, England made a financial contribution to the new church in memory of her son Philip, who was to have been a missionary in Northwest Canada before he was killed in the First World War. The church, built between 1919 and 1920, was named St Philip in his honour. The first service at St. Philip’s was held on February 8, 1920.
Originally, the church was built on posts, but a rock foundation was installed after the foundation collapsed during a well-attended funeral. A tabernacle was built later by a Mrs O’Malley. It has always been associated with Peguis (OW.068), and the mission has also included Fisherton (OW.029) and Marble Ridge. The church building has served other denominations and faiths over the years.

High Bluff, St Margaret

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The area surrounding High Bluff settled rapidly following the serious flooding of the Red River in the early 1850s. A mission was established in High Bluff sometime after 1857 by Archdeacon W. Cockran during his incumbency at St Mary, Portage la Prairie. A log church was built at High Bluff with a grant from the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge sometime between 1859 and 1861. The parish of St Margaret, High Bluff was formed by Archbishop R Machray on 18 June 1886. The church was consecrated 3 June 1894 by Archbishop R Machray. Since its early days, St Margaret has been associated with St Anne, Poplar Point (OW.073). In later years, arrangements were made with St Luke, Oakville and St Mary, Portage la Prairie before St Margaret closed sometime after 1945. There was some hope that the church would reopen with the influx of resettled World War II veterans, but that dream never materialized. In 1952, the church building was moved to Kelvin and the church was rededicated as St Matthew. The cemetery at High Bluff continues to be maintained by the High Bluff Cemetery Association.

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