The Centre is located at the University of Winnipeg [office: on the fifth floor mezzanine of the University Library], just a few blocks from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, with its comprehensive collection of records pertaining to the history of the region. The HBC Archives are now part of the Archives of Manitoba, with its major collections of public and private documents, images, maps, and film and sound recordings on the region's history. Also close by is the Manitoba Museum, with its stunning Hudson's Bay Company collection of Aboriginal artifacts (including early Métis material). Other research centres of interest in the city include The Index [formerly the Western Canadian Pictorial Index], with its 60,000 computer-catalogued images; the United Church Archives; and numerous other facilities. The Centre has contacts with personnel at all of these institutions and can assist researchers to make use of these resources.
The Centre for Rupert's Land Studies is located on a mezzanine above the fifth floor within the library at the University of Winnipeg. Click here for a map of the Library. Click here for a map of the fifth floor. The staircase is located in the stacks.
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About the Centre
The Centre for Rupert's Land Studies at The University of Winnipeg facilitates scholarly research and publishing concerning the human history of the Hudson Bay watershed, known in the period from 1670-1870 as Rupert's Land.
The Centre for Rupert's Land Studies also functions as a clearinghouse to assist researchers with similar interests to be in touch with each other, to communicate about their research projects and findings, and to assist researchers from out of town by putting them in touch with qualified local assistants or by providing a congenial meeting spot when visiting Winnipeg.
The Centre also hosts biennial colloquiums, publishes The Rupert's Land Newsletter, promotes awareness of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives in Winnipeg, and co-publishes, with McGill-Queen's University Press, a series of documentary volumes on aspects of the history of Rupert's Land.
Click here to download a copy of the Centre's organizational outline.
A copy of The History of the Pimichikimak People is now available for download. Click here (71.6mb).
Announcement
Memories, Myths, and Dreams of an Ojibwe Leader: William Berens, as told to A. Irving Hallowell
Edited, with introductions by Jennifer S.H. Brown and Susan Elaine Gray
http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2412
Has been awarded a Manitoba Day Award by the Association for Manitoba Archives
http://www.mbarchives.mb.ca/
The Centre for Rupert's Land Studies
| Director: Dr. Jennifer S.H. Brown |
