The 100th anniversary of the First World War is now finished but the records will continue to be preserved at the Archives and accessible to current and future generations who want to know more about the time period. In addition, this blog will remain on our website as an additional resource.

2018 Blog Posts

January 2018

•   2 January: Lt.-Col. R. M. Dennistoun: New Year 1918 in London
•   8 January: Learning to fly during the First World War
• 15 January: “Kindly let me know”: In search of loved ones on the S.S. Baykerran
• 22 January: Kiwanis Club Luncheons, January 1918
• 29 January: New Parliament Buildings still under construction in 1918

February 2018

•   5 February: “Winnipeg Will Suffer Heavily” – Charles A.R. Gordon's 1916 War Diary
• 12 February: A valentine from Canada
• 19 February: The HBC and the creation of Memorial Boulevard
• 26 February: Charles Francis writes to his mother about a surprise visitor and his plans for “apres le guerre”

March 2018

•   5 March: Scrapbooking the First World War
• 12 March: An Officer's View of the Great War: Francis Collinson’s Scrapbook
• 19 March: Cecil Bradbury: from First World War veteran to HBC employee in the Eastern Arctic
• 26 March: “Greatest Battle of the War now raging”

April 2018

•   2 April: Troop Movements, Battles, and the Flu: War Diaries at the Archives of Manitoba
•   9 April: Frank Edmund Heath: another fur trader goes to war
• 16 April: Lieutenant John Boswell of the Winnipeg Rifles gets married during his leave
• 23 April: Back at Vimy Ridge, one year later
• 30 April: The Daniel Sayre MacKay photograph collection and the Young Soldiers Battalions

May 2018

•   7 May: “Remember Us Over Here:” Augusta Boulton, the Russell Red Cross Society, and the First World War
• 14 May: Mina Mowat receives the Royal Red Cross at Buckingham Palace
• 22 May: The S.S. Nascopie: Wartime Supply Vessel in the Arctic
• 28 May: The impact of the war on Manitoba's farms, May 1918

June 2018

•   4 June: Making more connections: “Staff of original Provincial Air Service” photograph
•   7 June: Hudson's Bay Company's Chartering Department
• 18 June: “Canukeenas let us holler”: The Canukeena Club of Winnipeg

July 2018

• 18 July: Canadian Corps Championships, France, Dominion Day, July 1st 1918
• 23 July: Russian Revolution and HBC: After the Execution of the Imperial Family
• 30 July: Women supporting the war effort with the IODE

August 2018

• 7 August: The view from London, August 1918
• 13 August: Russian Revolution and HBC: Allied Troops take Archangel
• 20 August: Wounded while flying over France
• 27 August: A Soldier's Belongings: the Arthur Rufus Morrison Wallet

September 2018

•   4 September: Rumours of Captain Boswell's death reach Souris
• 10 September: War correspondent J. F. B. Livesay documents Canada's 100 days
• 17 September: “We are winning the war at the front but not at home these days”
• 24 September: The S.S. Pelican Part 2: “…steaming at utmost speed”

October 2018

•   1 October: Shooting Straight: The Winnipeg Civilian Rifle Association and the First World War
•   9 October: Edith Rogers and the war effort on the home front
• 15 October: Spanish Influenza in Labrador: One fur trade post's story
• 22 October: Influenza in Brandon and rumours about the end of the war
• 29 October: Lilia May Cox and George N. James

November 2018

•   5 November: Remembering the Armistice at the Archives of Manitoba
•   7 November: Remembrance Day 2018: Remembering the First World War
•   9 November: Armistice: November 11, 1918
• 13 November: The end of the war and plans for the future
• 19 November: Captain Clarence Boswell on Garrison Duty with the Winnipeg Rifles in Germany
• 26 November: “Hurrah for the Allies”: HBC post journals and the end of the war

December 2018

•   3 December: The Spanish Influenza, a visit from the U. S. President and a party with the Queen: Col. R. M. Dennistoun's report from London
• 10 December: HBC and the re-instatement of discharged service men into the workforce
• 17 December: “Such an employment would be not only unseemly, but abhorrent”: Controversy and the Winnipeg Cenotaph
• 21 December: Canadian Light Horse Christmas dinner
• 31 December: At Home and Away: the end of our First World War blog