Archives and Special Collections News Archive
Libraries
Remembering the forgotten
October 31, 2024 —
Hidden in a corner between University Centre and the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing, on the University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry campus, is a memorial that largely goes unnoticed, dedicated to the 30 members of the 11th Canadian Field Ambulance.
Libraries
Winnipeg Free Press: Behind the music Historian John Einarson donates trove of archives to university, looks back at life in new book
October 10, 2024 —
Winnipeg Free Press: Behind the music Historian John Einarson donates trove of archives to university, looks back at life in new book
Libraries
Backstage Pass: Behind the Scenes of John Einarson’s Words and Music
October 10, 2024 —
Welcome to Backstage Pass: Behind the Scenes of John Einarson’s Words and Music, a new exhibit in the University of Manitoba Libraries Archives & Special Collections which opens to the public October 10, 2024.
Research and International
UM researchers receive more than $1.5 million infrastructure investment from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund
September 26, 2024 —
Eight new UM research project have received critical infrastructure funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
Taking “Obs”: A history of weather observing at UM
May 1, 2024 —
Learn about the history and origins of weather observing in Winnipeg from the 19th century with Clayton H. Riddell Faculty researchers, Wayne Chan and John Hanesiak.
NOAA: ‘Cryptogram’ in a silk dress tells a weather story
December 15, 2023 —
'Cryptogram' in a silk dress tells a weather story
Libraries
Winnipeg’s forgotten song
November 3, 2023 —
On the eve of Winnipeg's 150th anniversary, it may come as a surprise to learn that the city has had an official song for close to 100 years.
Louis Slotin: The life and death of a UM alum at Los Alamos
August 8, 2023 —
UM chancellor Henry Duckworth, called him "one of the genuine heroes of the Atomic Age"
CBC: Buried secrets on the University of Manitoba campus
January 4, 2023 —
A simple stone cairn in front of one of the University of Manitoba's grand buildings, passed daily by thousands of students, contains a little-known secret.
Libraries
The ‘Suicide’ Battalion’s Chemist
November 7, 2022 —
In the Armes Building at UM’s Fort Garry campus hangs a plaque commemorating Henry P. Armes, for whom the building is named.