May 2015 SELECTED NEW TITLES Some Recent Additions to the Library Collection The Legislative Library participates in Doors Open Winnipeg……… p.1 Contents Legislative Library News ...............................................................................................................................1 Librarian’s Picks ..............................................................................................................................................2 New titles to borrow for May 2015 ...............................................................................................................4 Aboriginal Peoples .........................................................................................................................................4 Biography ........................................................................................................................................................4 Climate Change .............................................................................................................................................4 Environment, Energy and Natural Resources ...........................................................................................4 Heritage and History ......................................................................................................................................5 International Issues .......................................................................................................................................5 Law and Justice .............................................................................................................................................5 Management and Leadership ......................................................................................................................6 Politics and Government ...............................................................................................................................6 Social Issues ...................................................................................................................................................6 Manitoba Heritage titles for May 2015 ........................................................................................................7 Aboriginal Peoples .........................................................................................................................................7 Agriculture and Food .....................................................................................................................................7 Biography ........................................................................................................................................................8 Children's Books ............................................................................................................................................8 Climate Change .............................................................................................................................................9 Culture, Sports and Tourism ........................................................................................................................9 Economics, Finance and Taxation ..............................................................................................................9 Environment, Energy and Natural Resources ........................................................................................ 10 Health............................................................................................................................................................ 11 Heritage and History ................................................................................................................................... 11 International Issues .................................................................................................................................... 12 Labour and Employment ............................................................................................................................ 12 Manitoba Fiction and Literature ................................................................................................................ 12 Media and Communication ........................................................................................................................ 12 Politics and Government ............................................................................................................................ 13 Social Issues ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Request Form .................................................................................................................................................14 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT May 2015 1 Legislative Library News The Legislative Library is once again participating in Doors Open Winnipeg 2015. Doors Open is a city-wide event inviting Manitobans and visitors to the province to explore historic buildings across Winnipeg. The Library will co-host the event with the Archives of Manitoba at the Manitoba Archives Building, located at 200 Vaughan Street. The Library’s 2015 display theme is “A Day in the Life” featuring newspapers from previous May 30ths, dating as far back as the 19th century. Please join the Legislative Library for this exciting event. The Manitoba Archives Building will be open for visitors on Saturday, May 30th, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. 2 MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT May 2015 Librarian’s Picks The rise of the new West : the history of a region in Confederation / John F. Conway. 4th edition. Toronto : James Lorimer & Company, 2014. 399 pages. FC 3206 Con From the publisher: From the Riel Rebellions and the Winnipeg General Strike to the founding of the CCF, Social Credit, and Reform parties, Canada's West has always been a hotbed of political, social, and economic change. In the early twentieth century those calls for change emanated from the left as farmers and workers fought for social and economic justice. In the past two decades, the protests and calls for change emanated from the right as the region gained a new role for itself in Canada. This history chronicles the rise and fall of such figures as Grant Devine, Bill Vander Zalm, Glen Clark, Roy Romanow, Stockwell Day, and Lorne Calvert -- and the emergence of Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives. It describes how the West, the political wellspring of progressive changes over the years, has been transformed into the bastion of the right, culminating in the virtual annihilation of the NDP in Saskatchewan, the cradle of social democracy in Canada. Northern writers, volume 5 / edited by M.D. Meyer. Norway House : Goldrock Press, 2014. 90 pages. PS 8255 .M28 Nor From the publisher: Northern Writers: Volume 5 has something to suit every taste with a rich smorgasbord of writing styles and genres all reflecting the wealth of diversity found in the North. Contributions to this anthology include a legend embedded in a story of a boat ride with his grandfather by Ferrin Towers; a numismatist’s view of Manitoba’s trade tokens by historian Scott M. Hopkins; a children’s story about York Boat Days by Corrine Clyne; memories of the S.S. Keenora by celebrated story-teller Clarence Thordarson; reflective stories for youth by young adult author, Dana L. Coates and children’s book author, Brenda Fontaine; an essay on Aboriginal Poverty by university student David Kelvin McKay; poems by local writers Doug Senio and Marcel C. Menow; a blog post about his new life in Africa by Josiah Meyer; poems and song lyrics by Dorene Meyer and Paul Meyer; children’s stories from teachers Erin Hopkins and Samuel Parmar; memories of Holland during World War II by former northern outpost nurse Suzanna Abels-Meyer; and memories of her childhood in Tootinawaziibeeng First Nations by Deborah Ironside. MANITOBA LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY SNT May 2015 3 The elusive Mr. Pond : the soldier, fur trader and explorer who opened the Northwest / Barry Gough. Madeira Park, British Columbia : Douglas & McIntyre, 2014. xxv, 230 pages. CT 1 Pond, Peter Gou From the publisher: Sir Alexander Mackenzie is known to schoolchildren as a great Canadian explorer who gave his name to the country’s longest river, but hardly anyone could name the man who mentored Mackenzie and mapped much of northwestern Canada before him. Soldier, fur trader and explorer Peter Pond, the subject of this long overdue book, is a man whose legend has been forgotten in favor of those who came after him. Much of Pond’s life is shadowed in mystery. Historian Barry Gough uses Pond’s surviving memoirs, explorers’ journals, letters written by acquaintances of Pond, publications in London magazines and many other sources to track and reconstruct the life of one of the last of the tough, old-style explorers who ventured into the wilderness with little more than a strong instinct for survival and helped shape the modern world. Premonitions of war : the Winnipeg Free Press in the Hitler years / by Robert J. Young. Winnipeg : Winnipeg Free Press, 2015. 251 pages. PN 4784 .W37 You From the publisher: Premonitions of War tells the story of the weighty international matters that haunted the editorial staff at the Winnipeg Free Press in the 1930s In the 1930s, John Dafoe and the editorial writers of the Winnipeg Free Press warned readers of international