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The Manitoba Day Award is an award presented yearly, since 2007, by the Association for Manitoba Archives which recognizes those users of archives who have completed an original work of excellence that enhances the archival community and contributes to the understanding and celebration of Manitoba history. These works can be fiction or non-fiction and can be in a variety of media, including audio and film. The deadline for nomination is normally March of each year with the award being granted in May. Past winners include:


2022

Popular Publication: Gordon McDiarmid.  ''We Were Builders from Scotland''. Scholarly Publication (Two Winners): Chantal Fiola. ''Returning to Ceremony'' , Loewen Royden. ''Mennonite Farmers''. Exhibition/Project: Riva Symko. ''The Alloways' Gift'' , ''Rosalie Favell's Family Legacy''.


2021

Book/Publication: Susie Fisher, Frieda Esau Klippenstein, Roland Sawatzky, and Conrad Stoesz. ''Mennonite Village Photography'' Book/Publication: Steve Heinrichs and Esther Epp-Tiessen (ed.). ''Be It Resolved'' Exhibition/Project: Mary Jane McCallum and Erin Millions. “Indigenous Afternoons in the Archives f Manitoba Film/Theatre: Sabrina Janke and Alex Judge. “One Great History (podcast)”


2020

Book/Publication: David Spector, ''Assiniboine Park: Designing and Developing a People’s Playground'' (Great Plains Publications) Book/Publication:
Jean Teillet Jean Teillet is a Canadian retired lawyer and author of Métis descent. Her legal work has specialised in Métis and First Nations land rights in Canada. Teillet is Counsel Emeritus at the Canadian law firm Pape Salter Teillet having retired from ...
, ''The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, The Métis Nation'' (HarperCollins Canada) Exhibition/Project:  Adele Perry’s University of Manitoba History 3442 class blog Exhibition/Project: Mariia Kryvosheieva’s exhibit at the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre (Oseredok), from January 21 to March 3, 2020 titled “Manitoba Pioneers: The First Steps.” Film/Theatre: Andrew Wall of Refuge 31 films documentary “Volendam: A Refugee Story”


2019


Publication

Lucienne Beaudry Loiselle, Le Festival du Voyageur Hé Ho!: Une célébration de culture et de patrimoine


Exhibition/Project

Sarah Story, Victor Harper, Emma Harper, Connie Singleterry, Bear Lake Stevenson River Knowledge Preservation Project


Film/Theatre

StrongFront.tv, Urban Eclipse: Rising Tides of Kekekoziibii.


2018


Publication

Barbara Mitchell, Mapmaker: Philip Turnor in Rupert's Land in the Age of Enlightenment Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon, No Man's Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton


Exhibition

Andrea Martin and Tyyne Petrowski, Voices from Vimy: Manitobans on the Ridge


Film/Theatre

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, Sarah Ballenden


2017


Publication

C. Nathan Hatton, Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling (UofM Press: 2016) Bernard Mulaire, Caricatures (Éditions du blé: 2016)


Film/Theatre

Andrew Wall, The Last Objectors, 2016


2016


Publication

Dr. Stephen Haddelsey, Operation Tabarin: Britain’s Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica, 1944–46 Mary Jane McCallum, Indigenous Women, Work and History 1940-1980 Ernest N. Braun and Glen R. Klassen, Historical Atlas of the East Reserve Glen Suggett and Gordon Goldsborough, Delta: A Prairie Marsh and Its People Dale Gibson, Law, Life, and Government at Red River (Volume 1 & 2) Orest Martynowych, The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film and the Life of Vasile Avramenko Jacqueline Blay, volumes 1 and 2 of a 5 volume set on French history in Manitoba. Volume 1: Sous le ciel de la Prairie, des débuts à 1870 & Volume 2: Le temps des outrages (1870-1916)


Exhibition/Project

Kristin Tresoor, Dr. Morley Cohen Plaque and Exhibit at Cardiac Sciences Unit, St. Boniface Hospital Christy Henry, Eileen Trott, Graham Street, and Morganna Maylon, “Gowen’s Brandon – Then & Now” Dr. Roland Sawatzky, Manitoba Museum, “Nice Women Don’t Want the Vote” Mennonite Heritage Centre, a founding partner of the Mennonite Archival Image Database (MAID) website


2015


Publication

Randy Turner and Melissa Tait, City Beautiful: How Architecture Shaped Winnipeg’s DNA Jody Perrun, The Patriotic Consensus: Unity, Morale, and the Second World War in Winnipeg Dr. Royden Loewen, Village Among Nations: “Canadian” Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 Rev. Dr. Athanasius D. McVay, God’s Martyr, History’s Witness: Blessed Nykyta Budka, the First Ukrainian Catholic Bishop of Canada


Exhibition/Project

Suyoko Tsukamoto, “Brandon College and the Great War” exhibit Will Woodward, Education curriculum project which looked at the role of women in the First World War and Canada’s contribution to the war effort Kristin Tresoor, BMO in Winnipeg The Aboriginal Advisory Committee, Preserving the History of Aboriginal Institutional Development in Winnipeg


Film/Theatre

Kevin Nikkel, Romance of the Far Fur Country and On the Trail of the Far Fur Country Ryan McKenna, Controversies


2014


Publication

Carol Matas Carol Matas is a Canadian writer. She has had more than forty-three books for young people published over several decades, including science fiction, fantasy, historical, contemporary, realistic fiction, historical fiction and foods science. Her ...
, Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose Rabinowitz Michael Payne, Ted Binnema, and Gerhard Ens, Edmonton House Journals, Correspondence & Reports, 1806-1821 Esther Epp-Tiessen, Mennonite Central Committee in Canada: A History Nick Ternette, Rebel Without a Pause: A Memoir (awarded posthumously) Diane Truderung, Transcona's Story - 100 Years of Progress


Exhibition/Project

Abigail Auld, WPGxHBC project Annie Langlois and Thomas Bres, Ma langue, Ma Liberté exhibit Rev. Dr. Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd, "From Colonization to Right Relations: The Evolution of United Church of Canada Missions within Aboriginal Communities" essay & study curriculum Dr. Caryn Douglas, “Deaconess History of the United Church of Canada” website, www.uccdeaconesshistory.ca


Film/Theatre

Aaron Floresco and Rhonda Hinther, The Ukrainian Labour Temple film


2013


Publication

John C. Lehr, Community and Frontier: A Ukrainian Settlement in the Canadian Parkland Shannon Stunden Bower, Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba Bernard Bocquel, Les Fidèles à Riel: 125 ans d’évolution de l’Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba Bruce Owen, “Mayhem Under Main” Winnipeg Free Press article
University of Manitoba Press The University of Manitoba Press (UMP) is an academic publishing house based at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Founded in 1967, the UMP is the first university press in western Canada. Publishing 12 to 14 books a year, UMP is regarded as ...
, “Lost Foote Photos” blog, http://lostfootephotos.blogspot.ca


Exhibition/Project

Matt Henderson, Because of a Hat project and book at St John’s Ravenscourt high school Barb Flemington, translate, art project on 100 year old chalkboard slate paired with archival photographs from the S.J. McKee Archives


2012


Publication

Dale Barbour, Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967 Grace Evans, Donna Royer, and Sally Ito, editors, A Manifest Presence: 100 Years at St. Margaret’s Audrhea Lande, With Love To You All, Bogga S: : Stories and Letters from the Remarkable Life of Sigurbjorg Stefansson Joe Mackintosh, Andy Dejarlis: The Life and Music of an Old-Time Fiddler{{Cite web, title=MANITOBA DAY AWARD, url=https://www.greatplains.mb.ca/manitoba-day-award/, access-date=2020-06-17, website=www.greatplains.mb.ca Dr. Arthur J. Ray, Telling it to the Judge: Taking Native History to Court Dr Jaroslav Z. Skira and Dr. Karim Schelkens, The Second Vatican Council Diaries of Metropolitan Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R (1960-1965) Ron Stevens, Much Ado About Squat: Squatters and Homesteaders Ravage Riding Mountain Forest Robert Sweeney, Portraits of Winnipeg: The River City in Pen and Ink


Exhibition/Project

Arnie Neufeld and Bruce Wiebe, Stones and Stories project Gail Sawatsky and Bev Friesen, Mennonite Women Evolving project


Film/Theatre

Danny Schur, Mike’s Bloody Saturday film Andrew Wall, The Paper Nazis film


Musical Album

John K. Samson John Kristjan Samson (born 1973) is a Canadian musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is a singer-songwriter and best known as the frontman of the Canadian indie folk/rock band The Weakerthans. He also played bass in the punk band Propagandhi dur ...
, Provincial album


2011


Publication

Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age Ronald Friesen, Pioneers of Cheese: A Social and Economic History of the Cheese Industry in Southern Manitoba, 1880-1960 Pauline Greenhill, Make the Night Hideous: Four English Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940 Harold Jantz, Leaders Who Shaped Us: Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1910-2010 Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchelle, When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizen's Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike Alison R. Marshall, The Way of the Bachelor


Film/Theatre

Chris Charney (
Farpoint Films Farpoint Films is a television and film production company founded in 2000 by John Barnard and Kyle Bornais and based out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They have produced more than 500 hours of national and international award winning television ...
), Musical Ghosts Richard Stringer, The Bishop Who Ate His Boots


2010


Publication

Randy Rostecki, Armstrong's Point: A History Jennifer S.H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray, Memories, Myths and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader: William Berens, as told to A. Irving Hallowell David G. McCrady, Living with Strangers: the Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands Health Sciences Centre, Editorial Committee, Healing & Hope: A History of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg


Exhibition/Project

Susan MacWilliam, Flammarion Roger Godard, Identifying the Manitoba leg of the Dawson Trail Council of the Town of Carberry (Wayne Blair, Mayor, and Councillors Lin Mann, Stuart Olmstead, Barry Anderson, and Dale Aitken, Establishment of the Commercial Main Street Heritage Conservation District of the Town of Carberry


2009


Publication

J. M. Bumsted, Lord Selkirk: A Life Owen Clark, Musical Ghosts: Manitoba's Jazz and Dance Bands, 1914-1966 Louise Duguay and Les Éditions du blé, Pauline Boutal: Destin d'artiste André Fauchon and Carol J. Harvey, Saint-Boniface, 1908-2008: Reflets d'une ville Gordon Goldsborough, With One Voice: A History of Municipal Government in Manitoba Teyana Neufeld, Vantage Points: A Collection of Stories from Southwest Manitoba, Vol. 1 Christina Penner, Windows of Hamilton House Donna Sutherland, Nahoway: A Distant Voice


Film/Theatre

Paula Kelly, Souvenirs (a trio of short films) Jeff McKay, 40 Years of One Night Stands: The Story of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet


2008


Publication

Dr. Gerald Bedford, The University of Winnipeg, Volume II: The First Forty Years (1967-2007) Dr. Jennifer Brown and Margaret Anne Lindsay, The History of the Pimicikamak People to the Treaty Five Period Dr. Esyllt Jones, Influenza 1918: Disease, Death and Struggle in Winnipeg Anne Molgat, Claude DeMoissac, Georges Druwé, Lettres des tranchées Deidre Simmons, Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives Jack Bumsted, St. John's College: Faith and Education in Western Canada Susan Gray, I will Fear No Evil: Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 John J. Friesen, Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites Guillermo Quinonez, A Study of Medical Specialization: The History of the Department of Pathology of the Winnipeg General Hospital (1883-1957)


2007


Exhibition/Project

Russ Gourluck, selection of photographs for "The Encyclopedia of Manitoba" Lorne Coulson, Images of the North Donna Jacobs and Kat Polischuk, Access Transcona Wall Murals: Transcona Community History


Film/Theatre

Dr. Peter Letkemann, The Ben Horch Story
Carolyn Gray Carolyn Gray is a Canadian playwright. Biography Her full-length play ''The Elmwood Visitation'' (Scirocco Drama) was produced by Theatre Projects Manitoba in 2007 and won the Manitoba Day Award for excellence in archival research. ''The Confe ...
, The Elmwood Visitation Ora Walker, Transcona Remembers (DVD Documentary)


References


External links


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