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category: History
published: Nov 2000
ISBN:9780887556456
publisher: University of Manitoba Press

Thomas Scott's Body

And Other Essays on Early Manitoba History

by J.M. Bumsted

tagged: post-confederation (1867-), regional studies, social history
Description

What did happen to the body of Thomas Scott? The disposal of the body of Canadian history’s most famous political victim is the starting point for historian J.M. Bumsted’s new look at some of the most fascinating events and personalities of Manitoba’s Red River Settlement.To outsiders, 19th-century Red River seemed like a remote community precariously poised on the edge of the frontier. Small and isolated though it may have been, Red River society was also lively, well educated, multicultural, and often contentious. By looking at well-known figures from a new perspective, and by examining some of the more obscure corners of the settlement’s history, Bumsted challenges many of the widely-held assumptions about Red River. He looks, for instance, at the brief, unhappy Swiss settlement at Red River, examines the controversial reputation of politician John Christian Shultz, and delves into the sensational scandal of a prominent clergyman’s trial.

Vividly written, Thomas Scott's Body pieces together a new and often surprising picture of early Manitoba and its people.

About the Author

J.M. Bumsted received a PH D from Brown University in 1965. He has taught at Tufts and McMaster universities, and was associate professor of Canadian history at Simon Fraser. He is now retired professor of history at University of Manitoba. Professor Bumsted has published several articles on the history of early North America, especially eighteenth-century New England and Maritime Canada, and on evangelical pietism.

Editorial Review

“Impressively researched and exceptionally well-written. Bumsted’s readings are unbelievably broad and his scrutiny of the archival record is intense.”

— Mary-Ellen Kelm, author of Colonizing Bodies
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