Louis Riel Leads Provisional Government Dec 27, 1869
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Red River Colony – “Rupert’s Land” - At this point in time – December 1869 – Louis Riel announced that he had become the new leader of the provisional government at the Red River Colony in what was then referred to as “Rupert’s Land” – later to be called the “Province of Manitoba”. This appointment was automatic following the resignation of John Bruce , Louis Schmidt , a lifelong friend of Riel’s suceeded him as secretary .
It could be said at the time that these most dramatic events followed months and months of the most tense of negotiations. On December 10 , 1869 Riel with the help of close associates , Ambroise-Dydime , Lepine and W.B. ODonoghue , hoisted the flag of the “Provisional Government” of the pole in center square of Fort Garry. In design the standard of the new assembly is a fleur-de-lis on a full white backgrounnd.
Riel now held the then colony’s only effective government. While at the time , some experienced and noted political and historical observerers , doubted that he had a strong foundation for an administration there was no question what so ever that Louis Riel had met his first and primary objective – that of keeping “Canada” from establishing William McDougall as the government of the territory which would of been simply “annexed “ by Eastern Canada.
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Red River’s Only Newspaper Shuts Down
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December 1869: Rupert’s Land Colony : Louis Riel and his supporters have closed the offices of the “Nor’Wester, the colony’s only newspaper. The move is one of a series of events in which the provisional government is seeking to impose its authority on the troubled colony. In this same week all Winnipeg shops were cleared of guns and ammunition.
In silencing the Nor’Wester , Riel had effectively served to shut down all principal means of public communication. It had been noted that in those recent editions , of the time (November – December 1869) that the newspaper itself could be said to have met with some success in creating what some said was a historical breach between the English and French-Canadian groups and camps in the Manitoba regions. The final edition of the Nor’Wester newpaper appeared November 24 , 1869.
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Social More Rules Pre World War 1 Winnipeg Society
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When one visits Dalnavert, the restored mansion home of Hugh Jon Mc Donald – a former premier of the Province of Manitoba and the son of Canada’s first prime minister – Sir John A. Mc Donald , one is struck with the symbol of a small silver plate nearby the front door to the estate. This small plate is most symbolic , it was the place were calling cards were kept. It was the job of one of the main servants to inspect the cards left carefully , to evaluate if the caller was worthy of meeting the master at some point several days later. As such this served as a gatekeeper and enforcer of social standards and norms , in the pre World War 1 era , with all its instinsic rigid social class structures. This was after all Winnipeg , a part of the British Empire
Like the caste system of India , where each group sat in a “pecking order” and knew it well. Those below you in stature knew well that “you were better than them”. There were in addition many newcomers to the city of Winnipeg from Ontario and Britain who while being considered “socially acceptable” , had to be vetted and this either chosen to be welcomed or excluded.
In a city of self made men where almost everyone with money had worked very hard to get it, denying access to the local version of “society” could well be tricky. Leaders of local Winnipeg society , for example such as Mrs. Colin Campbell, the wife of Manitoba’s Attorney General, reinforced a system of “door keepers”, controlling in essence who was in …. who was “out”, who was invited and who was excluded.
Thus the parties given by wealthy hostesses like Mrs Agustus Nanton and Mrs. George Galt were described in the society collumns in the local established newspapers of note , so that those lower down in the totem pole pecking order could read about it and relish the tidbits of society gossip thrown in their paths.
Mrs. Hugh Phillips , the wife of a most successful Winnipeg lawyer in 1912 , recalled many many years later “ I remember Mrs. Sutherland – Lady May we called her because she held her head so high and was so grand. She had a satin blue dining room. She told W.F. Alloway to be careful of the chairs. He had sat down and put his feet up on the other chair. Mrs. George Galt and her husband also entertained on a grand scale. Her husband , George, and his brother John Galt where partners in a large grocery which among other things the firms’s popular “Blue Ribbon” brands. In January 1912 the Galts moved from their home on the corner of Broadway and Donald. to a beautiful new house at 460 Wellington Cresc. George Galt had designed many features of the house and made sure that it had plenty of room for entertainment and entertaining. The music room was eight meters long and 5 meters wide . The Galts daughter Alice recalled , years later “We entertained at home a great deal . We would have sing songs and roll back the rugs id we wanted to dance. We had any number of small parties of about a dozen people or less . We had gotten our first gramophone in 1908, but if we wanted to dance mother would play …When we were going to have a dance my sister and I my sister and I carried up most of the furniture up to the third floor to the would be billiards room so that if people wanted to go up there and sit they could.
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Sarah Binks – Famous Manitoba Book
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It is always an interesting case in academia. “Publish or Perish:” is the motto and byline.
Yet is rather amazing in that the once famous book which came forth from the University of Manitoba academia was not from a liberal arts source – an English or History professor of note – but rather from a Chemistry Professor of all sources.
The book in question is Sarah Binks , the author being Paul Hiebert
From the Canadian Encyclopedia
Sarah Binks, by University of Manitoba professor Paul HIEBERT, was published 1947 in Toronto. That the “Sweet Songstress of Saskatchewan” never drew breath has not prevented Hiebert’s imaginary poet from holding in thrall the hearts of those for whom she has immortalized the “Saskatchewanesque” voice in Canadian letters.
Sarah’s accomplishments are legend: founder of the influential “geo-literary” school of Canadian verse; creator of such heart-rending lyrics as “Hiawatha’s Milking”; winner of Saskatchewan’s highest poetic honour – the Wheat Pool Medal – for her epic “Up From the Magma and Back Again”; dead, tragically young, of mercury poisoning from a cracked thermometer.
Fortunately, by the time of her death her charming lyrical gifts, her sharp eye for natural detail, her acute ear for tripping metre, and her unerring sense of clinching rhyme had already secured her reputation; consider, for example, the oft-quoted opening of “My Garden”: A little blade of grass I see, / Its banner waving wild and free, / And I wonder if in time to come / ‘Twill be a great big onion.
Which of our real poets of the prairies has rivalled the verse of Hiebert’s sweet creation? Hiebert judiciously traces the complex and subtle interweaving of Binksian life and art; his definitive biography memorialized the imperishable power, beauty, and grace of the Binksian oeuvre.
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The Indextrious Reader: Canadian Book Meme – Manitoba. Margaret Laurence- A Bird In The House (Short Stories). Margaret Laurence- A Jest of God. Carol Shields- The Stone Diaries. David Godfrey- The New Ancestors. Bill Richardson- Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast … Paul Hiebert- Sarah Binks. Kate Sutherland – All in together girls (short stories). Leona Theis – The Art of Salvage. Alberta. Will Ferguson- Why I Hate Canadians (Nonfiction). Earle Birney- One Muddy Hand (Poetry). Thomas Wharton- Salamander (also …
I, Ectomorph: Choses manitobaines – This got me to thinking — Well what of Manitoba? What would the world really lack if our modest province had never existed? Had there been no Manitoba, it turns out, life in the 20th century would have been nowhere near as rich. The world of letters in particular would have suffered — not only no Margaret Laurence and no Gabrielle Roy and no Carol Shields, Ralph Connor, Paul Hiebert (or Sarah Binks) and Frederick Philip Grove, but (even worse) no Reader’s Digest …
Geranium Cat’s Bookshelf: Canadian literature meme – Manitoba Margaret Laurence- A Bird In The House (Short Stories) Margaret Laurence- A Jest of God Carol Shields- The Stone Diaries Bill Richardson- Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast Miriam Toews- A Complicated Kindness Tomson Highway- The Rez Sisters (Play) … Paul Hiebert- Sarah Binks Alberta Will Ferguson- Why I Hate Canadians (Nonfiction) Earle Birney- One Muddy Hand (Poetry) Thomas Wharton- Salamander W. P. Kinsella- Shoeless Joe Robert Kroetsch- The Studhorse Man …
Canadian Book Challenge | So Misguided – Manitoba David Bergen- The Time In Between David Godfrey- The New Ancestors Tomson Highway- The Rez Sisters (Play) Margaret Laurence- A Bird In The House (Short Stories) Margaret Laurence- A Jest of God Corey Redekop- Shelf Monkey Bill Richardson- Bachelor Brothers’ … Paul Hiebert- Sarah Binks Guy Gavriel Kay- The Summer Tree Tim Lilburn- Kill-Site (Poetry) W. O. Mitchell- Who Has Seen The Wind Sinclair Ross- As For Me and My House Kate Sutherland- All In Together Girls …
Manitoba Lotteries MS Walk
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Join the new Manitoba Lotteries MS Walk which takes place this April and May 2009 across the Province of Manitoba Canada. This event has been reenergized and will enable Manitobans to help MS . The website is www.mswalks.ca . Or you can simply call the toll free phone number 1-800-268-7582 to register by phone.
It is either well known by suffers of MS and their family or sometimes less well known both in and outside of the province that Manitoba and the Saskatchewan areas seem to have among the highest incidence of MS in the world . Furthermore statistical studies have shown and demonstrated that within a generation , new imigrants and their families are up to the same values of prevalence and incidence . Why now one seems to know or is sure. It appears to be something environmental – but just like the location of the ebola virus – no one is sure why . Some think it could be well water . Yet this does not explain the incidence of MS among members of the aboriginal commmunites.
According to a report in the CBC ( the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation):
Canada has one of the highest rates of multiple sclerosis in the world, according to an international survey.
The 2008 Atlas of Multiple Sclerosis showed MS strikes 133 people out of every 100,000 in Canada, the fifth highest rate among countries surveyed between 2004 and 2005.
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Map of MS rates around the world
Prevalence was higher in the United States, Germany, Norway and Hungary, according to the World Health Organization and the Multiple Sclerosis International Foundation, which published the report.
Some people with MS experience little disability during their lifetime. But up to 60 per cent are no longer fully able to walk 20 years after onset, which has major implications for their quality of life and costs to society, the report said. Symptoms appear around 30 years of age on average.
“The Atlas of MS reveals how these implications impact women more than men, by at least two to one, at an age when they are starting a family and developing a career,” said Dr. Benedetto Saraceno, director of the WHO’s department of mental health and substance dependence.
Canada has been a leader in terms of diagnosing, treating and working to improve the quality of life of people with MS. But keeping people with MS employed remains a challenge, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada said.
Canadian women are more than three times more likely to get multiple sclerosis than men, according to a major study published in November 2006. Among those born in the 1930s, about two women contracted MS for every one man, at a ratio of 1.9 to 1. For those born in the 1980s, the incidence has grown to exceed 3.2 cases for every one case among men.
Why the sudden increase in the neurodegenerative disease, which attacks the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation and damage that can lead to paralysis and sometimes blindness?
We don’t know. We don’t know what causes MS. We don’t know what cures MS. The whys and wherefores of this mysterious disease have bedevilled scientists, health-care workers and victims for nearly 200 years.
Recent speculation about the cause has ranged from genetics to environment to vitamin deficiencies to even the birth control pill.
Health officials consider a country to have a “high” rate if they have more than 30 cases per 100,000.
The incidence among the provinces varies, from a high of 340 cases for every 100,000 people in the Prairies to a low of 180 cases per 100,000 in Quebec, according to a 2005 study by researchers at the University of Calgary.
Those aged 15 to 40 are most at risk. One out of every two Canadians know someone with MS.
People who live closest to the equator have the lowest incidence of MS.
However, that doesn’t explain why the disease is nearly absent among Canada’s Inuit in the High Arctic and among indigenous people in North America and Australia, or why it is rarely found in Japan.
Study suggests MS is environment-based, preventable
The study on the rising incidence of women with MS was done by a team of researchers led by George Ebers, a professor of neurology at the University of Oxford. It appears in the November 2006 issue of the journal Lancet Neurology.
The higher incidence of MS among women may not be bad news, according to the researchers — because it may help to shed light on what causes the disease.
“What is going on here is something presumably that is preventable,” said Ebers, who was the lead author of the study.
“We just need to find out what it is in the environment. Because it has to be in the environment: your genes don’t change over two generations, three generations.”
Higher estrogen levels, less sunlight blamed
There has also been speculation that because MS is generally more prevalent in colder climates far north of the equator and far south of the equator, it may be due to vitamin D deficiencies.
The body produces the vitamin in response to sunlight and so vitamin D levels fall off in colder countries and in winter because the sun’s rays aren’t intense enough.
Because of the rising incidence of MS among women and because it seems to have started in the 1960s, many others have speculated that the cause may be connected to higher levels of the hormone estrogen due to the introduction of the birth control pill.
But Ebers, who spent 22 years at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., before going to Oxford, rejects these factors as likely explanations.
“I think one of the things one thinks of here is either that it’s going to be something in the environment or it is going to be an environmental interaction with genes.”
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights – Preparations Continue to Opening
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Canadian Museum for Human Rights – Preparations Continue to Official Opening
Canadian Museum For Human Rights Near It’s Goal – The donation was motivated by the Museum’s focus on educating youth to the importance of human rights. Winnipeggers should be glowing as the Museum will bring both tourism dollars to Winnipeg, and a sense of pride in providing the world …
Famous People of Manitoba » Canadian Museum of Human Rights … – “It is an honour to be part of the ground breaking for our new Canadian Museum for Human Rights” Manitoba’s Premier Gary Doer said. “We are thrilled to hae such a worthy national institution located in Manitoba , a province with a long …
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First Exhibit Canadian Museum for Human Rights – The first exhibition for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will be an exhibit which premiered at the Human Rights Day Youth Conference – which was organized by the United Nations of Canada , and held at the University of Winnipeg …
Construction of Canada's human rights museum - The Canadian Museum of Human Rights will soon begin construction and will open in 2012. It will be the largest human rights museum in the world.
Favorite Links – Access to Canadian Law and Canadian Legal Research Networks
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