The Lesser Known: A History Of Oddities From The Heart Of The Continent
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A 2021 Manitoba Day Award Honorable Mention!
Shortlisted for the 2021 Manuela Dias Book Design Award
Manitoba's history is one of being carved.
Ice sculpted the land before nomadic first people pressed trails across it. Southern First Nations dug into the earth to grow corn and potatoes while those in the north mined it for quartz used in arrowheads. Fur traders arrived, expanding on Indigenous trading networks and shaping new ones.
Then came settlers who chiselled the terrain with villages, towns and cities. They levelled contours to straighten roads, which started out as wagon-sculpted dirt trails and became multi-lane highways. They filled in creeks and streams to form foundations for buildings that evolved from modest wooden boxes to grand stone monuments of progress and prosperity.
But there is failure and suffering etched into the history, too.
In Winnipeg, slums emerged as the city's population boomed. There were more workers than jobs and the pay was paltry. Immigrants and First Nations were treated as second-class, shunted to the fringes. Rebellions and strikes, political scandals and natural disasters occured as the people molded Manitoba.
That past has been thoroughly chronicled, yet within it are lesser-known stories of people, places and events. In The Lesser Known, Darren Bernhardt shares odd tales lost in time, such as The Tin Can Cathedral, the first independent Ukrainian church in North America; the jail cell hidden beneath a Winnipeg theatre; the bear pit of Confusion Corner; gardening competitions between fur trading forts and more.
Once deemed important enough to be documented, these stories are now buried.
It's time to carve away at them once again.
Title:The Lesser Known: A History Of Oddities From The Heart Of The Continent
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:120 pages, 6.98 X 9.01 X 0.54 in
Shipping dimensions:120 pages, 6.98 X 9.01 X 0.54 in
Published:November 27, 2020
Publisher:Great Plains Publications
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781773370484