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Present Day Impact of Rooster Town

Present Day Impact of Rooster Town with Laura Forsythe.

Join PHD Candidate Laura Forsythe as she discusses the impacts of Rooster Town past and present and her own role as a descendent

Registration now closed. It is available on Dalnavert Museum’s Youtube Channel.

Learn more about Rooster Town:

Get the books

Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961

Evelyn Peters (Author), Matthew Stock (Author), Adrian Werner (Author)

Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West

Heather Dorries (Editor), Robert Henry (Editor), David Hugill (Editor), Tyler McCreary (Editor), Julie Tomiak (Editor)

Read an Article

Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960

David G. Burley

Watch Another Lecture

Jennifer Adese "Extinguishing the Dead: Colonial Anxieties & Métis Scrip Research"

Do Some Research

The Métis Veterans Legacy Program

Metis Scrip Records

Earlier Event: September 16
Trolley of Terror
Later Event: September 23
Trolley of Terror
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