Manitoba Day Award


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:

'''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:
, Sarah Ballenden

'''2017'''

Publication:
C. Nathan Hatton, Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling
Bernard Mulaire, Caricatures
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
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
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 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:
, 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
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, “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
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
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:
, 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, 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
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
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

'''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, The Elmwood Visitation
Ora Walker, Transcona Remembers