Gerald Friesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3764780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald Friesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Friesen |
| SIGNATURE | FRIESEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Honourable John Norquay
WINNER J.W. Dafoe Prize, 2025 WINNER CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association (2025) WINNER Manitoba Day Award, Scholarly Publication (2025) WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, Scholarly History (2024) The life and times of the Premier from Red River John Norquay, orphan and prodigy, was a leader among the Scots Cree peoples of western Canada. Born in the Red River Settlement, he farmed, hunted, traded, and taught school befor…
Citizens and Nation
Canadians and Their Pasts
What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today's world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history in their everyday lives. The results of their survey form the basis of this eye-opening book.Canadians and Their Pasts reports on the findings of inte…
Progress, Science, and Religion
Thinkers and Dreamers
Thinkers and Dreamers honours Carl C. Berger, professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto for more than forty years and author of influential works on Canadian intellectual history. In this collection, Professor Berger's colleagues and former students explore the currents of intellectual life in North America since the mid-nineteenth century. Broad in scope, the essays range in content from a commentary on works in intellectual his…
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The authors argue that intimate Prairie cities fostered …
Citizens and Nation
Citizens and Nation
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history. In a different approach to that old issue, 'the Canadian identity,' Gerald Friesen links the media studies of Harold Innis to the social history of recent decades. The result is a framework for Canadian…
Mac Runciman
Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade tells the story of how Runciman rose through the ranks of the UGG to play a central role in the fierce debates over the modernization of grain handling, subsidized freight rates, and the role of The Canadian Wheat Board.
River Road
The prairies are a focal point for momentous events in Canadian history, a place where two visions of Canada have often clashed: Louis Riel, the Manitoba School Question, French language rights, the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the dramatic collapse of the Meech Lake Accord when MLA Elijah Harper voted oNo.o Gerald Friesen believes that it is the responsibility of the historian to otell local stories in terms and concepts that make plain the…
Workers' Education in Australia and Canada
This essay investigates the formal and informal educational pursuits of the labour movements and working-class communities of Australia and Canada. It suggests that worker education in the two countries was conducted by similar institutions, notably by branches of England's Workers Educational Association (WEA) but within very different cultural contexts. By juxtaposing these two national cases we demonstrate that labour's reliance on such commun…
Adult Education and Union Education
THE UNION MOVEMENT IN CANADA is under siege in the 1990s, according to its leaders. The attitude of the community toward unions is said to be negative. Understanding of the purposes served by unions, let alone sympathy for or even interest in the broader social goals of the movement is said to be at an all-tune low. How did Canada reach such a state? This paper addresses such questions within the context of the adult education movement and of uni…
H.C. Pentland and Continuing Education at the University of Manitoba
HISTORY TEACHERS in Canadian universities spend very little time at professional meetings discussing die design of their courses. This is true of most disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Scholars in these subjects rarely investigate formally why one course seems to have considerable impact upon students and another does not. Nor do they debate the long-term contributions of various types of course and program to a student's develop…
Radical History in Australia
Vulcan
Lost Initiatives
Journal Article Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy and Forest Conservation. By R. Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach. (Westport: Greenwood, 1986. xv + 326 pp. $35.95.) Get access Gerald Friesen Gerald Friesen University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894458 Published: 0…
The Prairies and the Pampas
Right, Left, and Centre
The Canadian Prairies
Journal Article The Canadian Prairies: A History. By Gerald Friesen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xv + 524 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $22.50.) Get access David Breen David Breen University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Page 674, https://doi.org/10.2307/190432…
The Canadian Prairies
Journal Article The Canadian Prairies: A History Get access The Canadian Prairies: A History. By Friesen Gerald. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xv + 524 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.) Karel D. Bicha Karel D. Bicha Marquette University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 4, October 1985, Page 458, https://doi.or…
The Canadian Prairies
Journal Article The Canadian Prairies: A History. By Gerald Friesen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xv + 524 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $22.50.) Get access David Breen David Breen University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Page 674, https://doi.org/10.2307/190432…
Citizens and Nation
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history. In a different approach to that old issue, 'the Canadian identity,' Gerald Friesen links the media studies of Harold Innis to the social history of recent decades. The result is a framework for Canadian…
Workers' Education in Australia and Canada
This essay investigates the formal and informal educational pursuits of the labour movements and working-class communities of Australia and Canada. It suggests that worker education in the two countries was conducted by similar institutions, notably by branches of England's Workers Educational Association (WEA) but within very different cultural contexts. By juxtaposing these two national cases we demonstrate that labour's reliance on such commun…
Vulcan
The Canadian Prairies
Journal Article The Canadian Prairies: A History. By Gerald Friesen. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xv + 524 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $22.50.) Get access David Breen David Breen University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Page 674, https://doi.org/10.2307/190432…
The Canadian Prairies
Journal Article The Canadian Prairies: A History Get access The Canadian Prairies: A History. By Friesen Gerald. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xv + 524 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.) Karel D. Bicha Karel D. Bicha Marquette University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 16, Issue 4, October 1985, Page 458, https://doi.or…
Right, Left, and Centre
Lost Initiatives
Journal Article Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy and Forest Conservation. By R. Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach. (Westport: Greenwood, 1986. xv + 326 pp. $35.95.) Get access Gerald Friesen Gerald Friesen University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 4, March 1988, Pages 1351–1352, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894458 Published: 0…
The Prairies and the Pampas
Vulcan
Radical History in Australia
H.C. Pentland and Continuing Education at the University of Manitoba
HISTORY TEACHERS in Canadian universities spend very little time at professional meetings discussing die design of their courses. This is true of most disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Scholars in these subjects rarely investigate formally why one course seems to have considerable impact upon students and another does not. Nor do they debate the long-term contributions of various types of course and program to a student's develop…
Adult Education and Union Education
THE UNION MOVEMENT IN CANADA is under siege in the 1990s, according to its leaders. The attitude of the community toward unions is said to be negative. Understanding of the purposes served by unions, let alone sympathy for or even interest in the broader social goals of the movement is said to be at an all-tune low. How did Canada reach such a state? This paper addresses such questions within the context of the adult education movement and of uni…
River Road
The prairies are a focal point for momentous events in Canadian history, a place where two visions of Canada have often clashed: Louis Riel, the Manitoba School Question, French language rights, the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the dramatic collapse of the Meech Lake Accord when MLA Elijah Harper voted oNo.o Gerald Friesen believes that it is the responsibility of the historian to otell local stories in terms and concepts that make plain the…
Workers' Education in Australia and Canada
This essay investigates the formal and informal educational pursuits of the labour movements and working-class communities of Australia and Canada. It suggests that worker education in the two countries was conducted by similar institutions, notably by branches of England's Workers Educational Association (WEA) but within very different cultural contexts. By juxtaposing these two national cases we demonstrate that labour's reliance on such commun…
Mac Runciman
Mac Runciman: A Life in the Grain Trade tells the story of how Runciman rose through the ranks of the UGG to play a central role in the fierce debates over the modernization of grain handling, subsidized freight rates, and the role of The Canadian Wheat Board.
Citizens and Nation
Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of interviews with her son. Today's families rely on television and video cameras. They are all making history. In a different approach to that old issue, 'the Canadian identity,' Gerald Friesen links the media studies of Harold Innis to the social history of recent decades. The result is a framework for Canadian…
Citizens and Nation
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The authors argue that intimate Prairie cities fostered …
Progress, Science, and Religion
Thinkers and Dreamers
Thinkers and Dreamers honours Carl C. Berger, professor of Canadian history at the University of Toronto for more than forty years and author of influential works on Canadian intellectual history. In this collection, Professor Berger's colleagues and former students explore the currents of intellectual life in North America since the mid-nineteenth century. Broad in scope, the essays range in content from a commentary on works in intellectual his…
Canadians and Their Pasts
What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today's world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history in their everyday lives. The results of their survey form the basis of this eye-opening book.Canadians and Their Pasts reports on the findings of inte…
Citizens and Nation
The Honourable John Norquay
WINNER J.W. Dafoe Prize, 2025 WINNER CLIO History Prize (Prairies), Canadian Historical Association (2025) WINNER Manitoba Day Award, Scholarly Publication (2025) WINNER Margaret McWilliams Award, Scholarly History (2024) The life and times of the Premier from Red River John Norquay, orphan and prodigy, was a leader among the Scots Cree peoples of western Canada. Born in the Red River Settlement, he farmed, hunted, traded, and taught school befor…
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