About the Author

Jim Blanchard is the Head of Reference Services at Elizabeth Dafoe Library at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is a former president of the Manitoba Historical Society and is the author of Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age and Winnipeg 1912, and is the editor of A Thousand Miles of Prairie: The Manitoba Historical Society and the History of Western Canada.

Reviews

"A lively account of Winnipeg's 'high noon, ' a moment of great confidence that took place just as the balance was about to tip against the booming city."--Christopher Dafoe, author of Winnipeg: Heart of the Continent

"Winnipeg 1912 was a pleasure and occasionally an inspiration."--Desmond Morton "University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 76.1, 2007."