MANITOBA HERITAGE - A Collection of Eleven Pamphlets on Manitoba's Heritage published by the Government of Manitoba by [Manitoba] - 1982

Winnipeg, MB: Goverment of Manitoba, 1982. 1st printing. black-&-white illustrations. 8vo. Each stapled pamphlet is unmarked and in excellent condition,Each pamphlet contains between six and 12 pages. No authors indicated. Titles include: Our Lady of the Prairies (Trappist church near St. Norbert); Thomas Mayne Daly (prominent Winnipegger); E. Cora Hind (newspaper columnist and agronomist); St. James Anglican Church; Grund Lutheran Church (oldest Icelandic church in Canada); The Anson Northrup (first steam-powered freight boat on the Red River); The Settlement of New Iceland; Pine Fort (Fort Des Pinettes, a base for independent Montreal fur traders 1768-1781); Ernest Thompson Seton (author and naturalist); The Origin of the Name 'Manitoba'; The Honourable James McKay (Metis politician and fur trader); Thomas Douglas, Fifth Earl of Selkirk; The Hudson Bay Railway. Comes with copy of letter from Eugene Kostyra, then Minister of Cultural Affairs, explaining the purpose of the pamphlets.