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2021 Blog Posts:
- January 8, 2021: Photograph of Abram and Agatha Friesen family farm, Neuhorst, Manitoba — Submitted by M. C. Kotecki, Research Associate, Archives of Manitoba
- January 15, 2021: Dressage Winnipeg fonds — Submitted by Dr. Kathryn A. Young, Ph.D History, Historian
- January 22, 2021: Wendy Wersch fonds — submitted by Bev Pike, artist and archivist
- January 29, 2021: Archival material about York Factory and William Hemmings Cook at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives — Submitted by The Famous Sandhogs, Musician
- February 5, 2021: Scrapbooks and Newsletters documenting tuberculosis in Manitoba — Carmen Lowe, A/Senior Archivist/Records Analyst, Archives of Manitoba
- February 12, 2021: Drawings of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre building — Submitted by Camilla Holland, Executive Director, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
- February 19, 2021: “Journal of a Journey over Land from Buckingham House to the Rocky Mountains in 1792 a 3 by Peter Fidler” — Submitted by Roland Bohr, Historian, University of Winnipeg, Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
- February 26, 2021: HBC Cartographic Records related to Laurenson Lake — Submitted by Jason Carrie, Archivist, Archives of Manitoba
- March 5, 2021: The Road to Recovery, a film produced for the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba — Submitted by Tamara Schaab-Johnson, Medical Radiologic Technologist and member of the Manitoba Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (MAMRT)
- March 12, 2021: "Drawn by the Feathers or Ac ko mok ki a Black foot chief 7th Feby 1801" in Peter Fidler journals of exploration and survey, 1792-1806 — Submission by Ted Binnema, Historian
- March 19, 2021: Why Be A Farmer? A film produced by Manitoba Department of Agriculture — Submitted by Roger Mills, Dairy Business Consultant
- March 26, 2021: Hudson’s Bay Company Archives photograph — Submitted by Mark Reid, Editor-in-Chief, Canada’s History magazine and CanadasHistory.ca, Director, Content & Communications, Canada’s History Society
- April 9, 2021: Manitoba District School Attendance Registers, Woolwich School, 1952-1968 — Submitted by Ernest N. Braun, retired teacher and amateur local historian
- April 16, 2021: Photograph of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) employees in the air raid shelter located in the sub-basement of Beaver House, the HBC’s Head Office, 1941 — Submitted by Anne Morton, Archivist at the Archives of Manitoba, 1981-2006, for most of that time with the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives
- April 30, 2021: Letter from Louis Riel to his wife, Marguerite Riel, written from the jail in Regina, October 5, 1885 — Submitted by Brian Hubner, Archivist at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
- May 14, 2021: Ground Plan of York Factory by James Isham – Submitted by Ala Rekrut, Conservator, Archives of Manitoba
- May 28, 2021: Annie M. Laycock diary — Submitted by Jody Baltessen, former Manuscript Archivist, and later, Head of Textual Records and Public Service at the Archives of Manitoba
- June 11, 2021: Records by Peter Fidler from his time at the Hudson’s Bay Company — Submitted by Paul Hackett, Historical Geographer
- July 9, 2021: Winnipeg fire insurance atlases — Submitted by Jim Blanchard, Historian
- July 23, 2021: Photographs of the Manitoba Developmental Centre — Submitted by Mary Horodyski, researcher and archivist
- August 27, 2021: Two photographs of the wreck of the HBC ship Cam Owen taken in 1889 by James McDougall, HBC post inspector — Submitted by Jean-Luc Pilon, Former curator of Central Archaeology, Canadian Museum of History
- September 28, 2021: Interview with Gilbert Abraham, a residential school survivor, and Oblates of Mary Immaculate films — Submitted by Gilbert Comeault, former archivist, Archives of Manitoba
