Prairie metropolis new essays on Winnipeg social history /

Prairie metropolis new essays on Winnipeg social history / edited by Esyllt W. Jones and Gerald Friesen. - Winnipeg [Man. : University of Manitoba Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (260 pages : maps)

Includes bibliographies and index.

part 1. Reform and Growth in the First Sixty Years -- 1. Minnie J.B. Campbell, Reform, and Empire / 2. Empty-handed Constables and Notorious Offenders: Policing an Early Prairie City "According to Order" / 3. Protecting and Policing Children: The Origins and Nature of Juvenile Justice in Winnipeg / 4. "All our friends and patients know us": The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission / 5. "The Tubercular Cow Must Go": Business, Politics, and Winnipeg's Milk Supply, 1894-1922 / 6. Brigden's and the Eaton's Catalogue: Business and Art in Winnipeg, 1914-1940 / pt. 2. War and Post-War in Winnipeg -- 7. "Gloaming" to Growing: The Experience of the Institutionalized Elderly at Winnipeg's Middlechurch Home, 1907-1984 / 8. Spirit of Service: Winnipeg's Voluntary War Services During the Second World War / 9. Drinking Together: The Role of Gender in Changing Manitoba's Liquor Laws in the 1950s / 10. Winnipeg's Palliser Furniture in the Context of Mennonite Views on Industrial Relations, 1974-1996 / 11. Early History of the Winnipeg Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, 1951-1968 / Epilogue: Prairie Metropolis: A Personal View / Kurt Korneski -- Megan Kozminski -- Cassandra Woloschuk -- Tamara Miller -- Marion McKay -- Angela E. Davis -- Crista Bradley -- Jody Perrun -- Dale Barbour -- Janis Thiessen -- Leslie Hall -- Ed Rea.



9780887553578




Social institutions--History.--Manitoba--Winnipeg


Electronic Books.

HN110 / .P735 2009