Prairie metropolis : new essays on Winnipeg social history / edited by Esyllt Wynne Jones, Gerald Friesen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Esyllt W., editor.

Friesen, Gerald, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Social institutions.

Winnipeg (Man.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Winnipeg (Man.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the turn of the twentieth century, Winnipeg was the fastest-growing city in North America. But its days as a diverse and culturally rich metropolis did not end when the boom collapsed. Prairie Metropolis brings together some of the best new graduate research on the history of Winnipeg and makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of the city between 1900 and the 1980s. The essays in this collection explore the development of social institutions such as the city's police force, juvenile court, health care institutions, volunteer organizations, and cultural centres. They offer critical analyses on ethnic, gender, and class inequality and conflict, while placing Winnipeg's experiences in national and international contexts.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Reform and Growth in the First Sixty Years

1. Minnie J.B. Campbell, Reform, and Empire / Kurt Korneski

2. Empty-handed Constables and Notorious Offenders: Policing an Early Prairie City "According to Order" / Megan Kozminski

3. Protecting and Policing Children: The Origins and Nature of Juvenile Justice in Winnipeg / Cassandra Woloschuk

4. "All our friends and patients know us": The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission / Tamara Miller

5. "The Tubercular Cow Must Go": Business, Politics, and Winnipeg's Milk Supply, 1894-1922 / Marion McKay

6. Brigden's and the Eaton's Catalogue: Business and Art in Winnipeg, 1914-1940 / Angela E. Davis

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 / Crista Bradley

8. Spirit of Service: Winnipeg's Voluntary War Services During the Second World War / Jody Perrun

9. Drinking Together: The Role of Gender in Changing Manitoba's Liquor Laws in the 1950s / Dale Barbour

10. Winnipeg's Palliser Furniture in the Context of Mennonite Views on Industrial Relations, 1974-1996 / Janis Thiessen

11. Early History of the Winnipeg Indian and Metis Friendship Centre, 1951-1968 / Leslie Hall

Epilogue: Prairie Metropolis: A Personal View / Ed Rea.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-253) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2017).

ISBN:

9786613091055

9781283091053

1283091054

9780887553578

0887553575