A provincial history issued by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, a firm well known for its subscription-based regional histories produced across Canada and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As with other Clarke publications, The Story of Manitoba follows the company’s characteristic model, combining a narrative survey of provincial development with extensive biographical material supplied by, or written about, subscribing citizens, resulting in both a historical record and a commemorative social register.
Volume I presents a chronological history of Manitoba from its natural and Indigenous foundations through early European exploration, the fur trade, and the era of the Hudson’s Bay Company, tracing the Selkirk settlement, Red River conflicts, the resistance period, and the province’s entry into Confederation. Later chapters address political development, transportation, immigration, education, religious missions, and economic growth.
Volumes II and III are devoted entirely to biographical sketches of notable Manitoba residents and subscribers. These volumes contain personal and professional profiles, occasionally accompanied by portrait illustrations.
