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Guest Review: Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock, and Adrian Werner with Lawrie Barkwell, Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901 – 1961

Cover of Roostertown

Note from Andrea: Ok, blog post change of plans! But we are really excited to be able to bring you this special review of the new book, Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901-1961! Special thanks to Jo McCutcheon for her wonderful review, and to Ariel Gordon at the University of Manitoba Press for providing us with a review copy! You can purchase the book directly from the University of Manitoba Press here.

 

Evelyn Peters, Matthew Stock, and Adrian Werner with Lawrie Barkwell, Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901 – 1961 (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2018, 237 pages).

Jo McCutcheonJo McCutcheon is the Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Archivists and teaches part-time at the University of Ottawa, focusing on digital history, material culture, children, youth and the residential school system and settler-colonialism in records created by the federal government. She has worked as a professional researcher on her own and with a diversity of research firms for more than twenty-years. She is an active member of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA), several CHA committees and on social media sites.  She also serves on several volunteer boards including Minwaashin Lodge in Ottawa. You can find her on Twitter at @jomac_613.

 

When I saw the message asking if there was an interest in undertaking a review of Rooster Town, I was quick to indicate my keen interest. I had heard about this urban Métis community, from David G. Burley’s work published in Urban History Review[1]and again was reminded a few years ago after having read an article from the Winnipeg Free Press.[2]

For those who are not familiar with Rooster town, this was one of the several names applied to a largely Métis urban community that existed just outside Winnipeg from 1901 to the late 1950s, not far from Fort Rouge, St. Vital and St. Norbert. At its peak in 1946, it was home to fifty households. However, beginning in 1951, the City of Winnipeg began targeting this area for suburban development and a new high school. Pressure from the city resulted in a steady population decline, data from 1951 and 1956 showing specifically that the number of families decreased to thirty-seven in total.[3]By 1961, only one family remained listed as community members.[4]

I grew up in Winnipeg and even though I often made the trek from Transcona to Charleswood each Sunday for family dinners, I never heard of Rooster Town. Indeed, when talking to family about this new book, I was met with comments and stories that felt like echoes from the sensational news stories from both the Winnipeg Free Pressand the Winnipeg Tribunethat were so harmful and humiliating to long-time Rooster Town residents, published during the 1950s in particular.[5]

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Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – October 2018

Image featuring six covers from this month's upcoming publications

Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

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Upcoming Publications in Canadian History – April 2018

Image including the covers of six books spoken of in the post that follows

Welcome back to our monthly series, “Upcoming Publications in Canadian History,” where I’ve compiled information on all the upcoming releases for the following month in the field of Canadian history from every Canadian academic press, all in one place. This includes releases in both English and French. To see the releases from last month, click here.

***Please note that the cover images and book blurbs are used with permission from the publishers.***

N.B. This list only includes new releases, not rereleases in different formats.

 

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Best New Articles from December 2016

Best New Articles December 2016

Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?

 

Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.

This month I read articles from:

Here are my favourites:

 

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Best New Articles from October 2016

Best New Articles October 2016

Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?

Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.

This month I read articles from:

* Once again, I have tried to read the latest issue from the Canadian Bulletin on Medical History, and haven’t been able to access any articles. The same is true for the latest issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal, which contains two articles that deal with Canadian history. Fingers crossed I can access them next month. If you have access to either of these issues, and can lend me a copy, that would be much appreciated!

Here are my favourites:

 

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