Mary Bruce: Selected Photographs from Norway House 1929-1932 Mary E. Bruce worked as a matron at Norway House Residential School in Norway House, Manitoba from 1929-1932. Her photographs provide a remarkable view of life at the school and in the larger community and illustrate her love of the local landscape and of photography. Biographical […]
I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters along the Berens River 1875-1940
Researcher Susan Gray Susan Gray is the author of I Will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 a book that offers a unique perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters in northern Manitoba. In exploring the story from the point of view of those the missionaries came to convert, she is able to trace […]
Make the Night Hideous: Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940
Project Focus and Publication Dr. Pauline Greenhill writes, “I first realised that charivaris (or shivaree or chivaree) were still happening in Ontario in the late 1980s. I was fascinated that a practice I thought had died out at the end of the previous century was still going strong, at least in some areas. I wrote […]