Manitoba Book of Everything: Everything You Wanted to Know About Manitoba and Were Going to Ask Anyway - Softcover

Hanlon, Christine; Edie, Barbara; Pendgracs, Doreen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978478452 ISBN 13: 9780978478452

Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc., 2008

Synopsis

From the Hudson’s Bay Company, Louis Riel, and the Winnipeg General Strike to bone-chilling winters, flood waters, The Guess Who and profiles of Cindy Klassen, Peter Nygard, Duff Roblin and the Golden Boy atop Manitoba’s Legislature, no book is more comprehensive than the Manitoba Book of Everything. No book is more fun! Well known Manitobans weigh in on the province. Filmmaker Guy Maddin gives us his favourite lost Winnipeg buildings, former Premier and Canadian Governor General Ed Schreyer details Manitobans that he admires most, Olympic goaltender Sami Jo Small provides us with her favourite outdoor sports memories, broadcaster Peter Warren recounts his most memorable interviews and musician Ray St. Germain lists his top Aboriginal acts. From rivers, lakes, and beaches to the Winnipeg arts scene to famous crooks and hoodlums, Manitoba slang, the Métis and the mighty mosquito ... it’s all here. Whether you are a native Manitoban or visiting for the first time, there simply is no more complete book about Manitoba. If you love Manitoba, you’ll love the Manitoba Book of Everything!

About this title

About the Author

Christine Hanlon is a freelance writer. She lives in Winnipeg.

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Manitoba Book of Everything

Everything You Wanted to Know About Manitoba and Were Going to Ask Anyway

By Christine Hanlon, Barbara Edie, Doreen Pendgracs

MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.

Copyright © 2011 MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-9784784-5-2

Contents

INTRODUCTION, 
SONG, 
TIMELINE, 
ESSENTIALS, 
SLANG, 
NATURAL WORLD, 
PLACE NAMES, 
WEATHER AND CLIMATE, 
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 
CULTURE, 
ECONOMY, 
POLITICS, 
THEN AND NOW, 
FIRST PEOPLE, 

CHAPTER 1

Moody Manitoba Morning

"Moody Manitoba Morning" was written and recorded by Rick Neufeld, and later re-recorded by the Bells in 1969. It became the theme song for Manitoba's Centennial in 1970. Credit goes to Cancon Music Publishing (SOCAN) for their permission to reprint these fine lyrics.

It's a moody Manitoba morning
Nothing's really happening, it never does
Just got up and waited for the mailman
To bring me a letter that never was
I'm not sad or happy, just living day by day

It's a moody Manitoba morning
I like it that way
It's a long and kind of gentle
Lazy prairie town afternoon
The sky is high
I can fell the grass growing
From yesterday's rain
Sun's a glowing and so am I
Read the afternoon paper
To see where the world was at

It's a long and kind of gentle lazy day
I like it like that
It's a quiet, welcome, lively
Sort of leisurely past the evening
It's after nine
Go slowly walking up and down
The main street with a special girl
Things are fine

Now it's time to go home
Tomorrow's another day
Another moody Manitoba morning
And we like it that way
Another moody Manitoba morning
(come on now)

Moody Manitoba morning (5x)
And we like it that way

CHAPTER 2

Manitoba:

A Timeline

10,000-13,000 years before present: Nomadic hunters enter Manitoba from the southwest. Developing grasslands in the south provide abundant hunting territory while Lake Agassiz covers much of the province's remaining land.

4,000-5,000 years before present: Hunters populate the Canadian Shield in the eastern and northern part of the province after Glacial Lake Agassiz recedes, leaving behind lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba.

1610: Henry Hudson sails the Discovery into Hudson Bay.

1612: First Europeans set foot in Manitoba when Thomas Button winters two ships at Port Nelson, near the mouths of the Nelson and Hayes Rivers.

1619: Danish explorer Jens Munck enters Churchill Harbour in the Unicorn and builds a temporary house on shore.

1668: In search of new sources of fur, Radisson and Groseilliers sail for Hudson Bay in the Nonsuch.

1670: England's King Charles II creates Rupert's Land and grants a charter to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

1684: York Factory is founded as the HBC's main trading post on the Hudson Bay Coast.

1691: HBC employee Henry Kelsey explores Northern Manitoba from Hudson Bay to the Saskatchewan River, near The Pas. He is the first European to see and describe the buffalo.

1738: Quebec-born explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye, builds Fort Rouge at the forks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.

1754: Anthony Henday sets out to explore the interior of the province in an expedition funded by the HBC in response to concerns that La Vérendrye is funneling the fur trade to his forts.

Edition details

• Publisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978478452
• ISBN 13: 9780978478452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208