Digital video recordings and group release forms of the C2C: Two Spirit and Queer People of Colour Call to Conversation with LGBT and Allies conference sessions held October 20-22, 2017 at the University of Winnipeg.

The poster and program for the C2C: Two Spirit & Queer People of Colour Call to Conversation with LGBT and Allies conference held October 20-22, 2017 at the University of Winnipeg.

This oral history collection includes the interviews that resulted in the book Snacks: A Canadian Food History (University of Manitoba Press, 2017). The Series includes interviews with owners, managers, workers, and consumers of independently owned Canadian snack food manufacturers including Old Dutch Potato Chips, Hawkins Cheezies, and Paulins, among others. The project received funding through: SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Government of Canada; James Burns Oral History Pilot Project in Business (via University of Winnipeg Oral History Centre); Faculty of Arts Research Grant Seed Money Fund, University of Winnipeg.

Research Assistants included: Aaron Moseley-Williams (2012–13); Sarah Reilly (2011–15); Elizabeth-Anne Johnson (2012–15); Sarah Story (2014–17).

A Project Documents File includes all documentation submitted with the project including: the original project proposal, interview protocol and question guide, consent form and archival release agreement, and a project description (written after completing, including resultant publications).

Oral History Interview with Stan Rossowski, conducted by Karen Clements in 2017 (1hh04mm58ss).
The interview includes discussion of: Rossowski's motivation in being a mental health activist, personal and family connection to this issue, and his work in the community, including his peer support work with various organizations.

Oral history interview with Betty Riediger (01h 29mmm 16ss), conducted by Janis Thiessen in 2019. The interview is transcribed and indexed, and includes a related documents file containing 2 photographs, interviewer's notes and question guide.

Dr. Thiessen interviews Mrs. Betty Riediger about the independent grocery store Riediger operated with her husband on Isabel Street in Winnipeg, MB. She describes the store’s humble beginnings and gradual expansion after becoming popular amongst Mennonite/German immigrants. After a long period of struggles, the store closed in January 2012. Mrs. Riediger then discusses her life story. She describes her childhood on her parent’s farm in Saskatchewan during the Great Depression and her family’s move to Manitoba. She describes her work history as a domestic worker and secretary prior to marriage. Other topics of discussion include day to day operations, offering purchases on credit, specialty ingredients and competition with chain grocers.

The fonds documents the organizational history of the Congress of Black Women of Manitoba and the recent social and cultural history of Black women in Manitoba. The fonds consists of four separate accessions: 11.003, 15.014, 16.015, and 17.008. Accession 11.003 consists of 6 series: minutes and agendas, constitution and by-laws, correspondence, events and workshops, internal publications, and external publications. Accession 15.014 includes one series containing 345 photographs. Accession 16.015 includes 10 series: meetings and reports, correspondence, events and workshops, grant applications, research materials, internal publications, external publications, electronic records, moving image records and photographs. Accession 17.008 consists of one series of presentations.

The "Confectionery" subseries contains 11 oral history interviews (11hh 56mm 41ss) conducted by interviewers Dr. Janis Thiessen, Sarah Story, Sarah Reilly, and Elizabeth Anne Johnson in various Canadian cities between 2012 and 2014. The interviews are with persons who worked in various capacities within confectionary sales and manufacturing in Canada including at manufacturers: Paulin’s, Cavalier, Scott-Bathgate, Brookfield, and Purity. 11 interviews (of the original 13 conducted) are fully transcribed and indexed; 11 files include the original audio.

The fonds is kept in the donor’s original order & constitutes one series. The second accrual A.11-17 is again maintained in the donor’s order. However, the material pertaining to her aunt Elizabeth Brown constitutes a second series. The third accrual A.11-28 contains five series. They include HBC fur trade research material, correspondence, student files & administration, First Nations and Metis research & course material, and oversized material. The fourth accrual A.014-127 contains eight series. They include family & academic material, correspondence, student papers, unpublished writings by other academics, research material, photograph collection containing 10 photos, 31 slides, tape collection containing 3 audio CDs, 27 audiocassettes & an oversize collection containing Harper's Weekly magazine from May 2, 1885 documenting the Riel Rebellion.