Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History

Part One: Reform and Growth in the First 60 Years 1. Minnie J.B. Campbell, Reform, and Empire / 2. Empty-handed Constables and Notorious Offenders: Policing an Early Prairie City “According to Order” / 3. Protecting and Policing Children: The Origins and Nature of Juvenile Justice in Winnipeg / 4. The Margaret Scott Nursing Mission / 5. The Tubercular Cow Must Go: Business, Politics, and Winnipeg’s Milk Supply 1894–1922 / 6. Brigden’s and the Eaton’s Catalogue: Business and Art in Winnipeg 1914–1940 Part Two: War and Post-War in Winnipeg 7. “Gloaming” to Growing: The Experience of the Institutionalized Elderly at Winnipeg’s Middlechurch Home, 1907–1984 / 8. The Spirit of Service: Winnipeg’s Voluntary War Services During the Second World War / 9. Drinking together: The Role of Gender in Changing Manitoba’s Liquor Laws in the 1950s / 10. Winnipeg’s Palliser Furniture in the Context of Mennonite Views on Industrial Relations, 1974–1996 / 11. The History of the Winnipeg Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, 1951–1968 / Epilogue: Prairie Meropolis: A Personal View