A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People (1916)

By George Bryce

This book is invaluable for everyone who is interested in the families and individuals who settled in the Manitoba before 1906. In addition to extensive settlement and development history, the book also provides a long list of individual biographies and family sketches, many including portraits.

During evaluation of the original book, we noticed a tremendous number of references to the places that early settlers came from, and that families from those places often clumped together when settling in Manitoba. That realization resulted in an extensive new Index which identifies every instance of a personal name, plus every instance of a place name.

Contents include:

• Descriptive and Topographical. The Archaean Region. Mineral Resources. The Lake Region. Glacial Effects. Shore Line. Surface Features. The Highlands.
• Founding of the Hudson's Bay Company. Rupert's Land
• Government and Trade of the Hudson's Bay Company
• Struggles With the French
• Verandrye and the French in Rupert's Land
• The Scottish Fur Traders of Montreal
• The Nor'Westers of Canada and Their Rivalries and Truces. The X Y Company
• The Hudson's Bay Company Pushes Inland
• Lord Selkirk's Colony
• The Fur Companies' Struggle
• "Seven Oaks" Skirmish
• Lord Selkirk's Visit
• Fort Garry and Sir George Simpson
• Elements of Population at Red River
• Lord Selkirk's Colony (1817-1835)
• Red River Settlement (1835-1844)
• Discontent in Assiniboia (1845-1869)
• Canada Seeks After Rupert's Land
• The Riel Rebellion (1869-1870)
• Manitoba Created in 1870. The Organic Act of 1870
• The First Decade as a Province. Settlement, Extension of Boundaries and General Provincial Affairs
• The Boom (1879-1882)
• Early Means of Transportation in Manitoba. The Steamboat. The Red River Cart
  The Building of the Railways
• Agriculture and Farming
• Business Interests of Manitoba
• Growth of Cities and Towns
• The Newspapers of Manitoba
• Sketch of Political Development
• The Educational System of Manitoba. Public Schools. Colleges and the University
• The Rise of the Churches
• Social Condition of the People
• The Future of Manitoba (as forecast in 1906)
• NEW INDEX (added exclusively to this edition)  

Click here to browse new Index of People and Places

Biographies included:

Adams Bros
Adams, D. E
Adams, Frank W
Adamson, Allan J
Agnew, John H
Aikenhead, Joseph
Aikins, J. A. M
Aikins, James C
Aikins, J. S
Alexander, William
Allan, James B
Allan, William R..
Anderson, Edward
Andrew, George
Andrews, Alfred A
Arbuthnot, John
Arkell, Francis E
Armington, Milton J
Armitage, Joseph S
Armstrong, Hugh
Ashdown, James H
Bailey, Wilson S
Baine, James D
Baird, Hugh N
Baldwin, James M
Banfield, Annine F
Bank of British North America
Bannister, Wm. A
Banting, Charles R.
Barber, Edmund L
Barclay, Robert
Barr, George
Barrett, Gregory
Barrowclough, Samuel L
Baskerville, Charles A
Beaubier, Thomas
Bell, Charles N.
Beliveau, Honnisdas
Black, Geo. M
Black, John W
Black, Thomas
Black, William A
Blair, John
Bolton, Burton W
Bonnar, Robert A
Bonny, James R
Borthwick, Hugh J
Boyce, Edward
Eriggs, Edward
Bright, Albert
Brock, Jeffry H
Brown, Edward
Brown, John
Browne, George
Bryan, George F
Bryans, James
Bryce, George
Brydges, Frederick H
Brydon, William
Buck, Thomas H
Burrows, Theodore A
Byrnes, Henry
Cadham, James H
Callander, John C
Cameron, Douglas C
Campbell, Peter
Campbell, Robert J
Carruthers, George F
Carthew, John R
Chaffey, Benjamin E
Chapin, Festus
Chapman, Thomas
Chevrier, Horace
Clark, Charles W
Clark, Douglas A
Clark, William
Clement, Stephen E
Codd, Alfred
Codville, John J
Congdon, Arthur
Cowan, James
Cowan, William J
Cox, Frederick J. C
Cranston, Charles H
Crawford, John
Crawford, William E
Cross, William H
Crotty, Henry S
Crowe, George R
Cunningham, Henry C
Curran, John P
Currie, William
Curry, Duncan S
Daly, Thomas M
Darrach, Robert
Davidson, Alexander
Davidson, James H
Davis, Fred L
Dawson, Alexander
Deacon, Thomas R
Denison, Albert
Dickie, Noble
Dingwall, Donald R
Drewry, Edward L
Drewry, Frederick W
Driscoll, John W
Drysdale, John A
Eadie, James
Elliott, George A
Evans, Richard D
Evans, Thomas D. B
Fairbairn, James
Fieldhouse, Mannaduke H
Fleming, John
Fleming, John William
Fonseea, William G
Forrest, Christopher F
Fowler, Frank O
Frame, James F
Fraser, Alexander C
Fry, Henry
Fry, John
Galloway, Roper
Gait, George F.
Gait, John
Garrioch, W. Scott.
Georgeson, William
Gibson, James S
Glines, George A
Gordon, James T
Gordon, William
Gourley, R. J
Graban, Charles
Graburn, Christopher
Graham, Herbert C
Griffin, James Y
Grundy, James A
Hadskis, George H
Hagel, Nathaniel F
Haggart, Alexander
Hall, Robert
Hallett, Frank T
Hamilton, Daniel
Hamilton, Jonathan J
Hammond, William J
Hanbury, John
Handscomb, Sidney T
Haney, John R
Hannah, John
Hargraft, Alexander R
Harris, Edward J
Harris, John Walter
Harrison, Richard M
Hart, John A
Haverson, John H
Hay, Arthur G
Heap, James
Helliwell, Chas. V
Henderson, William
Herriot, William
Hespeler, William
Hetherington, Robert B
Higginbotham, Joseph F
Higham, James
Hobbs, James A
Hooper, Samuel
Horn, David
Hosmer, Edward A. C
Houkes, Albert L
Howden, James H
Anthony J
Hughes, Thomas A. M
Hughes, Joseph H
Hurt, Robert J
Hutchings, E. F
Hutchinson, Hodgson W
Imperial Bank of Canada
Inglis, John
Innes, James
Jackson, George N
Jackson, Samuel J
James, Edwin A
Johnson, James
Joslin, William W
Kelly, Andrew
Kelly, Thomas
Kennedy, John
Kennedy, William J
Kerr, David
Kirkcaldy, James
Laird, David
Lait, William B
Lanigan, William B
Lawrence, George
Lawlor, Thomas J
Lee, Thomas
Leech, J. Hillyard
Leech, Richard E. A
Leslie, John
Leslie, N. G
Lindsay, Jonathan
Lochead, John S
Lock, Thomas H
Locke, Corbet
Lockhart, Thomas
Love, John
Lundy, Frank B
Macdonald, Daniel A
Macdonald, Hugh J
Machaffie, W. A
Maclntyre, Lachlan C
MacLean, Daniel
Macpherson, Ritchie
MaeVicar, Edwin L
Manitoba Iron Works
Manning, Robert F
Manville, Herbert A
March, Frank M
Marlett, Samuel R
Martin, Isaac W .
Maulson, George J
Maw, Joseph
McBean, Bruce
McClain, Samuel
McClure, Gavin
McConnell, Benjamin J
McCorquodale, Colin
McCrae, James W
McCuish, Donald J
McDiarmid, Alfred R.
McDonald, Duncan
McFadden, David H
McGill, Joseph A
Mclnnis, Stanley W
Mclntyre, Archibald H
Mclntyre, Peter C
McKay, Hector
McKechnie, John
McKenzie, Albert E
McKerehar, Daniel W
McKinnon, Donald C
McLaren, Archibald
McLaren Bros
McLaughlin, H. Douglas
McLennan, Duncan
McMeans, Lendrum
McMicken, Alexander
McMillan, William W
McPherson, Hugh
McPhillips, George
McRae, Alexander C
McWilliams, William H
Meikle, Harry
Meredith, Henry v
Miller, William W
Monkman, Albert
Monteith, George B
Monteith, Robert
Montgomery, Oswald

Montgomery, Thomas
Montgomery, Weston
Morden, Wilmot F
Mott, Ezra A
Muir, Robert
Mulvey, Stewart
Munroe, George F ,
Murray, George W
Murphy, Gabriel B
Musgrove, George
Myers, Robert H
Nanton, Augustus M
Nation, Frederick
Nation, Joseph
Newman, Fred L
Newman, Thomas A
Newton, Charles H
O'Donnell, John H
Olafson, Gisli
Oldfield, John H
Ogilvie Hour Milling Co
Parrish, William L
Paterson, Robert W
Pattison, James W
Pearson, Ernest W
Percival, Thomas M
Pitblado, Isaac
Pineo, William M
Rankin, Andrew D
Ramsay, Peter B. H
Rea, James F
Reesor, D. A
Reid, Alexander
Renton, John
Richardson, Robert D
Richardson, Robert L
Richardson, William
Riley, Robert T
Rimer, Francis W
Roberts, James A
Robinson, Jerry
Robinson, Joseph M
Robinson, Thomas
Roblin, Redmond P
Rocan, Maxime
Roche, WiUiam J
Rochon, E. J
Roddick, George
Rogers, Robert
Ross, Adam E
Ruddell, John H
Russell, John H. G.
Rutherford, Thomas
Ruttan, Henry N
Ryan, Joseph
Ryan, Thomas
Salts, William H
Schaffner, Frederick L
Schmidt, Julius H
Schooley, Sloan
Scott, Alexander L
Scott, Frederick W
Scott, James
Scott, John A
Scott, Robert
Scott, Robert R
Scott, Stuart
Scott, Thomas
Scott, William
Sexsmith, George
Sharpe, Thomas
Shaw, Arthur W
Shaw, George H
Shea, Patrick 
Sheldon, Charles
Shillinglaw, Walter H
Shirriff, James
Simpson, Charles M
Simpson, John
Simpson, Robert M
Skyiner, Henry J
Slater, Andrew E
Smith, Alborn Charles
Smith, Gilbert C
Smith, James
Smith, John E
Smith, John
Smith, Roderick
Smith, William P
Snelgrove, Alfred H
Soames, George
Sowden, William H
Speirs, John T
Spence, James
Spink, Samuel
Sprague, Daniel E
Stobart, Frederick W
Stephens, George F
Stevenson, William W
Stewart, Arthur
Stirton, James
Strang, Robert
Stratton, Ira
Strome, Isaiah R
Stuart, James
Swinford, Herbert
Taylor, Richard R
Taylor, Thomas W
Tees, James
Telford, D. McL
Thompson, Geo. B
Thompson, Harry C
Thompson, John W
Thomson, Robert S
Thomson, Charles J
Thomson, John
Thomson, Richard S
Tilt, Capel
Tomalin, William J. C
Tupper, James S
Walker, David M
Walker, William
Wallace, James S
Waller, Henry E
Watson, Johnston
Watson, Robert
Welch, Alexander R
Wellband, William
Wemyss, John
West, Charles H
Wheeler, Charles H.
Whitla, R. J
Whyte, William
Williams, Frank
Williams, John
Wilson, Andrew E
Wilson, William
Winearls, Herbert H.
Winkler, Valentine
Wood, George D
Wright, Archibald
Wright, James A
Young, Ainslie L
Young, Finlay McNaughton
Younge, Joseph W

Details

902 pages including the new index
7" X 9.75"
Hardcover - premium burgundy Tanotex covering
New Index (names and places)
Portraits with many biographies (with signatures)
Photographs
Originally published by Canada History Company, Toronto, 1906
This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2003
ISBN 1-894378-68-7 (Hardcover)