Lesser Known : A History of Oddities from the Heart of the Continent, Paperba...

by Darren Bernhardt

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Lesser Known : A History of Oddities from the Heart of the Continent, Paperback by Bernhardt, Darren, ISBN 1773370480, ISBN-13 9781773370484, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Manitoba's history is one of being carved. Ice sculpted the land before nomadic first people pressed trails across it. Southern First Nations dug into the earthto grow corn and potatoes while those in the north mined it for quartz used in arrowheads. Fur traders arrived, expanding on Indigenous trading networks and shaping new came settlers who chiselled the terrain with villages, towns and there is failure and suffering etched into the history, Winnipeg, slums emerged as the city's population boomed. There were more workers than jobs and the pay was paltry. Immigrants and First Nations were treated as second-class, shunted to the fringes. Rebellions and strikes, political scandals and natural disasters occured as the people molded past has been thoroughly chronicled, yet within it are lesser-known stories of people, places and events. In The Lesser Known, Darren Bernhardt shares odd tales lost in time, such as The Tin Can Cathedral, the first independent Ukrainianchurch in North America; the jail cell hidden beneath a Winnipeg theatre; the bear pit of Confusion Corner; gardening competitions between fur trading forts and deemed important enough to be documented, these stories are now buried. It's time to carve away at them once again.

• Publisher: GPI Publications
• Year: 2020
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781773370484
• Condition: Fine

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