Theme: War & Conflict
Vantage Points Stories (Books, Online & pdf)
Vantage Point Flashbacks (Radio Broadcasts)
Additional Resources


Theme: War & Conflict Format: Vantage Points Article


Vantage Points articles are presented with links (Web) to the story on the Vantage Points Website
 and as print-ready PDF files.

For a Radio Broadcast based on the story select the "Vantage Points Flashback" link.
For more info about locations follow the "Places Link".
To visit a related website follow the "Web Link" (There may be more than 1).
To download a related Document click the "Document Link".


Volume 1


The Metigoshe Métis Community   Web  / PDF     Vol.  I, Page 31
The first permanent Métis settlers moved to Turtle Mountain in 1908.

Mennonite Settlement in Southwest Manitoba   /   Web  / PDF      Vol. I , Page  34
Mennonites settle on the Canadian Prairies -  Post 1923
Vantage Points Flashbacks:        Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Walter Zeiler – Rum-runner   Web  / PDF      Vol. I, Page 36
He travelled in the dead of night, never under a full moon, and never after it had freshly snowed because of the tracks that would be left by his horse's hooves

Volume 2


Rise of the Métis Identity       Web  / PDF    Vol.  II, Page 6
Vantage Points Flashbacks      Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Melita Robbery      Web  / PDF     Vol.  II, Page 38
A Midnight Crime Hits Southwest Manitoba . . . September 1923


Volume 3

Charles Sankey     Web  / PDF     Vol.  III, Page 30
Over the span of his nearly 100 years he became a sailor, farmer, veterinarian, gold-panner and dedicated community worker
Vantage Points Flashbacks: Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
Places Link

 Chain Lakes Quaker Church        Web  / PDF     Vol.  III, Page 46
The area around Chain Lakes was settled by Quakers—also commonly known as “Friends.”
Vantage Points Flashbacks:    Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources


Volume 4
Sitting Eagle      Web /  PDF      Vol.  IV, Page 40
He and his Grandfather H'damani were among the few who declined a $200 government pay-off to relocate to a reserve near Pipestone. By 1909, only H’damani, his grandson Chaske (later known as Sitting Eagle) and a few others remained.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:     Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Alton Breault - Adventures of a Radar Repairman       Web  / PDF     Vol.  IV, Page 52
It was top secret - he and his companions at the training facility at Yatesbury, England, couldn’t tell even their servicemen buddies what they were working on. 

Border Stories     Web  / PDF      Vol.  IV, Page 56
Maybe all stories that stimulate an interest in a subject are good stories.


Volume 5


The Mission School     Web /  PDF     Vol.  V, Page 3
In 1892 the local Endeavor Society obtained some funds and set up a school in a donated cabin on the Turtle Mountain Reserve.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:     Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
Document Link

Shutting Down IR#60    Web /  PDF     Vol. V, Page 4 & 5
In 1889 Indian Agent J.A. Markle, based in Birtle, raised the possibility of relocating H’damani’s band.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:     Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
Document Link

Observations of a War Bride     Web  / PDF    Vol.  V, Page 12
Vera Booker was one of 48,000 young women who came to Can- ada as a war bride during and after the Second World.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:      Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

The Hartney Air Training Field     Web  / PDF   Vol. V, Page 34
The Relief Field 1 for No. 17 Service Flying Training Schoolbased at RCAF Station Souris had a large hangar and personnel of eighty men and twenty-five officers.
Vantage Points Flashbacks:    Radio Broadcast Intro   Radio Broadcast |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Prisoners of War – Harvest Help       Web /  PDF       Vol. V, Page 39
The prisoner farmhands were lightly guarded and often permitted to go shopping or attend church.  An unknown number stayed after release and became Canadians.

The Case of the Nazi (?) Farmhand      Web /  PDF     Vol. V, Page 40
Why is there a sketch of Adolph Hitler on a vintage threshing machine near Pierson?
Theme: War & Conflict Format: Radio Broadcast


25: Sankey Explores the World
Sankey's  first sea voyage was to China and Australia, at age 16. He later joiuned the crew of the Cutty Sark, aclipper famous for tales of munity and murder!  
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources
 
Themes

Settler - Pre-Railroad    Community Cooperation & Organization     Cross Cultural Learning  Biographies &Characters    War & Conflict

Events & Adventures


#32: The Nakota  
The Nakota were frequently allies with explorers and fur traders. They enjoyed the benefits they got from trading but they were vulnerable to deceases Europeans brought.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

Fur Trade      Dakota, Nakota & First Nations     Schools & Teachers    Land Knowledge & Archaeology   Cross Cultural Learning        War & Conflict

 #35: The Dakota
In the 1870's a delegation of Dakota-Sioux led by Chief H'damani sought  a reserve on Turtle Mountain. They had lived there in peace since 1862.
#38: Mennonites 
In 1924 a Mennonite family arrived in Whitwater to join other who had decided to start a new life in Canada.
 Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

Railways       Churches & Religion      Women Leaders    Cross Cultural Learning      Biographies &Characters   War & Conflict     Government Influence

#42: Hutterites
"We're Anabaptists, which means we're Christians but aren't Catholic or Protestant."
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

 Community Cooperation & Organization    Schools & Teachers      Churches & Religion     Children      Homesteading / Agriculture     Cross Cultural Learning     War & Conflict    Government Influence

#46: The Doctrine of Discovery
How did Europeans get the land from Indigenous Nations? There was one official religion in Europe at that time, so that church had a lot of power. Its leader proclaimed the “Doctrine of Discovery” giving European Christian nations the right to claim virtually all of North America.
#48 War Training
The Commonwealth Air Training Field near Hartney was an important part of the WW2 war effort..
Radio Broadcast Intro   Radio Broadcast |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

                    Community Cooperation & Organization      Land Knowledge & Archaeology         War & Conflict   Government Influence

#49: Objecting To War
The Mennonite religion teaches that we must not do violence to others; that it's wrong to fight in wars; which makes it easy to think they we're soft on Hitler. But in reality they reject any authority that uses violence.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

  Women Leaders       Churches & Religion    Cross Cultural Learning    Biographies & Characters
War & Conflict   Government Influence

 #51: War Bride  
As a young English woman during WWII, Vera Booker's parents forbade her to do anything with the Canadian soldiers stationed nearby. She didn't listen. That's how she ended up in Waskada!
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

   Railways             Women Leaders      Cross Cultural Learning      Biographies &Characters        War & Conflict

#55: Mining the Mountain
The Salter and Henderson mines , near Goodlands, became the most successful in Manitoba. They were separated by a barbed-wire fence.
Radio Broadcast   |   Illustrated Text  |  Resources

Themes

Railways      Innovation, Tools & Entrepreneurs    Children      Land Knowledge & Archaeology    Commerce & Work 
Biographies & Characters     War & Conflict


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