On the Road to Abandoned Manitoba

GORDON GOLDSBOROUGH

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Winner of the 2024 MHS Margaret McWilliams Book Award–Popular History Category

 

In this book, scientist-historian Gordon Goldsborough hits the road in search of adventure and little-known stories from Manitoba’s past. Among the places he visits are underground radiation monitoring posts from the Cold War, a remote hydroelectric generating station, cruise ships on the Red River, and the original route of the Trans-Canada Highway.

 

WINNER, BOOK OF THE YEAR, MORE ABANDONED MANITOBA

MCNALLY ROBINSON #1 BESTSELLER, ABANDONED MANITOBA

GORDON GOLDSBOROUGH

GORDON GOLDSBOROUGH

GORDON GOLDSBOROUGH is an active member of the Manitoba Historical Society. He has written four books on Manitoba history including the national bestsellers Abandoned Manitoba and More Abandoned Manitoba, the latter receiving the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award in 2019. He has a weekly series on Manitoba history on CBC Radio 1, a weekly column on Manitoba history in the Manitoba Cooperator newspaper, and is secretary to the Board for the Manitoba Agricultural Museum. In recognition of his historical and scientific work, he was inducted into the Order of Manitoba in 2021.

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“(Goldsborough) underscores again and again the need to take stock of the past through our architecture… At a time when official support for history is waning — the collections and records of the Manitoba Archaeological Society are stored in a car wash in Virden — it is quite often the private citizen who maintains these sites, slowing the passage of time just enough for the past to be recorded. In that way, Goldsborough, too, is making his mark on the preservation of Canadian history.” – J.R. Patterson, Literary Review of Canada

 

“There are countless places in rural Manitoba that may be deserted and forgotten about but are worth the road trip to see.” Interview with Gordon Goldsborough in the Brandon Sun.

 

Here’s Gordon at Friesen’s watching On The Road to Abandoned Manitoba come hot off the press! – Friesen’s Press Blog

 

Are we there yet? Vintage cars hit old Trans-Canada in Manitoba road trip – Winnipeg Free Press

 

Antique cars from 1920s, ’30s driving across Manitoba for fundraising campaign – CBC Manitoba