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2020 Blog Posts:
- January 28 2020: Welcome from Scott Goodine, Archivist of Manitoba
- February 7 2020: Welcome and submission from Minister of Sport, Culture and Heritage Minister and the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Honourable Cathy Cox
- February 14 2020: HBC's 1919 film expedition: textual materials and nitrate film footage — Submission from Kevin Nikkel, filmmaker
- February 18 2020: 1967 Pan Am Games documentary — Submission from Ross Munro, filmmaker, born in Winnipeg now living in Vancouver, B.C.
- February 21 2020: Photo from 1964 of the Simpsons-Sears building at Polo Park Shopping Centre — Submission from Belle Cameron, Admin of Facebook group ‘Retro St. James’
- February 25 2020: Cyclist on trail along Portage Avenue, 1900 — Submission from Glenn Bergen, Managing Editor, University of Manitoba Press
- February 27 2020: A letter written by James Sanderson to John Norquay in 1879 — Submission from Gerald Friesen, University of Manitoba
- March 3 2020: Drewry Scrapbooks — Submission from Gordon Goldsborough, President of the Manitoba Historical Society
- March 5, 2020: Photographs of Industrial Bureau Exposition Building, ca. 1912 — Submission by Christine Hanlon, Author of Out of Old Manitoba Kitchens and Everything Manitoba
- March 10, 2020: Gertrude Perrin’s travel diary: 1936 voyage aboard the ‘Nascopie’ — Submission by Joni Storie, Associate Professor, University of Winnipeg
- March 12, 2020: Half yearly attendance report for Beaudry School in La Salle, 1956 — Submission by Rachel Lagacé, Reporter, CTV Morning Live
- March 16, 2020: The History of Winnipeg Beach oral history project — Submission by Dale Barbour, historian
- April 24, 2020: Homestead files related to James Sinclair's homestead, NW22-14-22W — Submission by Sharon Simms, family history blogger
- April 27, 2020: Photographs of the Hudson’s Bay Company store, Portage and Memorial — Submission by Della Beattie, Student
- April 29, 2020: Hudson's Bay Company department store employee newsletter, “The Beaver Log” — Submission by Janis Thiessen, Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
- April 30, 2020: Hudson's Bay House Library photograph collection subject files and "The Beaver" magazine vertical files — Submission by Dr. Karla Kit McManus, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts (Art History), Faculty of Media, Art + Performance, University of Regina
- May 7, 2020: Children’s Home of Winnipeg fonds — Submission by James Mochoruk, Historian, University of North Dakota
- May 14, 2020: L.B. Foote fonds — Submission by Danny Schur, composer/producer/writer of historical musicals
- May 21, 2020: Petition for Franchise for Women — Submission by Roland Sawatzky, Curator of History, Manitoba Museum
- May 29, 2020: Le Club Belge fonds — Submission by Neil Pryce
- June 5, 2020: York Factory Post Journal 1714-1715, written by James Knight — Submission by Amelia Fay, Curator of the HBC Museum Collection at the Manitoba Museum
- June 11, 2020: The Spanish Flu and the Death of a Cavalryman: Diaries of George Hambley — Submission by Warren Breckman, Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
- June 18, 2020: Samuel Taylor’s journal entry, November 15, 1862 — Submission by Maureen Dolyniuk, retired Archivist [former Keeper of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
- June 26, 2020: Exhibits and other records related to the Winnipeg General Strike trials — Submission by Zenon Gawron, researcher
- July 3, 2020: Hudson’s Bay Company’s 300th anniversary press kit — Submission by Joan Craig, Archivist, Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, 1968-1973
- July 10, 2020: Legislative Building architect’s files — Submission by Zenon Gawron, researcher
- July 16, 2020: Legislative Building architect’s files — Submission by Rachel Mills, Acting Senior Archivist / Analyst, Government Records Office
- July 24, 2020: Red River Settlement census, 1846 — Submission by Jackie Corrigan, amateur genealogist, blogger
- July 31, 2020: Manitoba and Climate Change: Investing in our Future, Report of the Manitoba Climate Change Task Force, September 2001 — Submission by Juliane Schaible, Senior Economic Development Consultant in the Department of Conservation and Climate
- August 7, 2020: Petition from citizens of Transcona to be incorporated as a town, 1912 — Submission by Lee Gibson, former Archives of Manitoba volunteer
- August 14, 2020: Photographs of the International Winnipeg to St. Paul Snowmobile Race — Submission by Dale Neduzak, amateur snowmobile historian, professional WW2 aircraft restoration expert
- August 21, 2020: Records of Filipino-Manitobans in the garment industry since 1968 — Submission by Rod Cantiveros, community volunteer and publisher of Filipino Journal
- August 28, 2020: The Hudson’s Bay Company Cumberland House post journals — Submission by Paul C. Thistle, Ethnohistorian
- September 4, 2020: Records documenting the settlement of New Iceland — Submission by Julianna Roberts, Executive Director of New Iceland Heritage Museum
- September 11, 2020: Manitoba Guild of English Handbell Ringers fonds — Submission by Morna-June Morrow, Archivist of MBGEHR
- September 18, 2020: Records of Ralph Maybank, Humphrey Lloyd Hime, and L.B. Foote — Submission by Barry Hyman, retired archivist [former Deputy Archivist and Head of Private Sector Records, Archives of Manitoba]
- September 25, 2020: 1767 and 1772 maps of the route from Churchill to the Coppermine River — Submitted by Michelle Rydz, Archivist, Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
- October 2, 2020: Inkster family correspondence (1853-1895) — Samantha Booth, Archivist, Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
- October 9, 2020: Resolution found in proceedings booklet for the 7th Annual Indian and Metis Conference — Dr. Mary Jane McCallum, Professor of History, University of Winnipeg
- October 16, 2020: "My Notebook" by Isobel G. Finlayson. This is the chronicle of Isobel's 1840 journey on the “Prince Rupert” from London to York Factory, and from there to the Red River Settlement — Submitted by Heather Beattie, Archivist
- October 23, 2020: Women’s Musical Club of Winnipeg fonds — Submission by Dr. Kathryn A. Young, Ph.D History, Historian and former board member of the Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg
- October 30, 2020: Double exposed photograph in James McDougall fonds — Submission by Mandy Malazdrewich, Archivist, Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Archives of Manitoba
- November 06, 2020: First World War letter written by Lt. Alexander Logan Waugh to his father — Submission by Alexander Waugh, nephew of Lt. Alexander Logan Waugh, grandson of Winnipeg Mayor R.D. Waugh and great-grandson of Mayor Alexander Logan
- November 13, 2020: Records related to brick and limestone — Submission by Peter Schuster, Director, MMI (Manitoba Masonry Institute)
- November 20, 2020: Records of 4-H Clubs — Submission by Alfred Chorney, amateur historian, Brokenhead Heritage Committee
- November 27, 2020: Watercolour painting of Fort Dunvegan by Rollin Price Meade — Submitted by Thomas Schultze, author of Hudson’s Bay Company Posts and Depots: Images from a Vanished Era
- December 4, 2020: Records related to Deaf Education in Manitoba — Submitted by David Burke, researcher of Deaf Education in Manitoba and member of the Deaf community
- December 11, 2020: Records of Manitoba’s Centennial Celebrations - Submission by Christian Cassidy, History Blogger
- December 18, 2020: Architectural Survey photograph collection and Donald Roderick Cameron fonds — Submitted by Murray Peterson, Historical Buildings Officer, City of Winnipeg
