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Paul Moist fonds

  • CA UWA 21.09
  • Fonds
  • 1974 - 2019

Fonds reflects Paul Moist’s career as a Canadian labour activist and longtime member and President of both CUPE Local 500 and CUPE National. The majority of the fonds is comprised of his speeches and presentation notes, and also includes personal and professional correspondence, administrative and organizational documents from CUPE, and personal research on the 1919 General Strike. The records are primarily textual but also include audio-visual material and ephemera such as buttons.

Fonds is arranged in 6 series: speeches and presentations; personal files; CUPE Convention files; CUPE internal files; audio/video and day planners; and 1919 General Strike research. The speeches and presentation series include the speeches and speaking notes Paul Moist used at conferences and meetings around Canada. There is also a box of day planners and calendars that Paul Moist used during his time in CUPE Local 500 and as CUPE National President. The box of CUPE internal files cover various CUPE internal documents and meeting notes. The personal files cover letters, correspondence, and news clippings from Paul Moist’s time with CUPE 500 and CUPE National. The 1919 General Strike series are all the files related to the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike that Paul Moist collected over the last 30 years.

Moist, Paul

Birtles Family Collection

  • CA DHM 1978.28
  • Collection

The collection contains family photographs and textual documents related to the activities of members of the John Birtles (1886-1977) family. The collection includes portraits of family members, postcards, newspaper clippings, certificates, a letter, magazines and books.

Joan Fitzpatrick Collection

  • CA DHM 1983.246.1
  • Item
  • December 6. 1913

Large dark-brown leather-covered book containing appraisal of The Brandon Steam Laundry Co. Limited (1215-1219 Rosser Avenue, Brandon, Manitoba), performed by the Canadian Appraisal Company, Montreal in 1913. Consists of 100 pages typed; detailed analysis of the laundry including the boiler house, dye house, stable, wagon shed, barn and sewage.

The Canadian Appraisal Co.

Wilson B. Brown fonds

  • CA UWA 08.22, 22.09
  • Fonds
  • 1982-2022

The fonds consists of records depicting the career of University of Winnipeg economist and professor Dr. Wilson B. Brown. The 2008 accession includes the Final Report of the University of Winnipeg Fund-Raising Campaign Planning Advisory Group, appendices, and other related materials including memos, contact lists and drafts. The 2022 accession includes correspondence, articles, essays, committee records, class materials, personal records, and a copy of the book "An Economist Writes Poetry" (10 illustrations, 51 poems).

Brown, Wilson B.

juice fonds

  • CA UWA 18.15
  • Fonds
  • 2000-2012

The fonds consists of textual and electronic records pertaining to the publication of the University of Winnipeg-produced literary journal juice. Records include: manuscript drafts, publication layouts and prints, financial quotes, promotional material (including posters), donation requests, administrative records, letters of support, newspaper clippings, rejection letters, and related correspondence. The fonds also includes copies of other literary journals in Winnipeg such as Mindscape from The Collegiate at the University of Winnipeg, the Writer’s Collectives’ Collective Consciousness, and the University of Winnipeg English Students' Association's The Undergrad. The computer diskettes and CDs include writer submissions, publishing master copies from a variety of years, and copies of Urban Slices (a limited edition spoken word collection).

juice

J.D. Simpson Collection

  • CA DHM 636
  • Collection
  • 1908-1914

The collection contains photographs of Canadian Pacific Railway construction crews in southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan between 1908 and 1914.

Simpson, James Donovan "Don"

R.J. Howey Collection

  • CA DHM 1986.369
  • Collection
  • 1940-1950

Photographs of the Howey family's activities in Bradwardine, Manitoba

Howey, Richard J.

Guenther Sickert Collection

  • CA UWA 21.22
  • Collection
  • 1890-2012

The Guenter Sickert Collection consists of newspaper articles, scrapbook pages, correspondence, photographs, maps, documents and publications collected by Guenter Sickert that relate to his and others' contributions to the German-Canadian community, primarily in Winnipeg. He was devoted to preserving German culture and language among German immigrants in Canada. The Sickert Collection is composed of the following series: German-Canadian Congress; Publications; German Society of Winnipeg; Camp Neustadt; Research Materials; Clubs and Organizations; Community Events; German-Canadian Historic Association; Miscellaneous; Newspaper; Photographs; and Maps. The records are spread across 18 boxes.

Kelly Houle fonds

  • CA UWA 22.16
  • Fonds
  • n.d.

The fonds consists of the full Indigenous ceremonial regalia worn by Kelly Houle while dancing in powwows and in other ceremony. The regalia includes a blue jingle dress, multi-coloured hair ribbons, leather hide moccasins, a black leather belt, beaded flower earrings, a beaded feather clasp or brooch, and beaded leather tiara that reads "18th International Two-Spirit Princess." In an oral history interview, Houle claimed that she had a vision of dancing in a jingle dress and acquired the regalia shortly thereafter following a consultation with an Elder. She referred to the dress as a "healing dress" in this interview.

Houle, Kelly

Allen Mills fonds

  • CA UWA 04.002
  • Fonds
  • 1970-1972

The fonds consists of records, mostly publications, pertaining to the Waffle Movement, a radical-left political movement that grew in popularity in the early 1970s. The fonds is divided into eight categories:

1 For an Independent Socialist Canada - articles on the benefits of an Independent Socialist Canada
2 Public Ownership - the benefits of nationalizing industries and natural resources
3 Quebec - How the movement would deal with the sovereignty issue
4 Policy Issues - various political policies the movement promotes
5 Waffle in the New Democratic Party - dealing with the larger political party of the NDP
6 Waffle-Ontario - the Waffle movement in Ontario
7 Waffle-Saskatchewan - how a socialist Saskatchewan would work in a socialist Canada
8 Oversize - oversized copies of the 'Waffle News', the 'Ontario Waffle', and assorted news clippings

Mills, Allen

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