Radio Free Winnipeg

Adele Perry (@adeleperry) is a 19th Century Historian at The University of Manitoba and author of Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World, published by Cambridge University Press. In episode 2 she sits down with us to talk about Winnipeg’s early problems with typhoid, the Greater Winnipeg Water District, and how the construction of the aquaduct that now supplies Winnipeg with water led to the dispossession of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation. This episode originally aired on CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg on Sunday September 27, 2015.