The Manitoba Historical Society is accepting nominations for the Lieutenant Governor’s Historical Award. The Society’s Gordon Goldsborough says nominations are open to anyone who has done work in promoting the history of their community with a couple of changes this year….
“This year the Lieutenant Governor urges us to focus on people who are doing this as a result of genuine interest in it, therefore people who are doing it as their job will not be considered. The other change is there are many young people out there doing wonderful work as well so this year of the five awards that are to be made two of them are reserved for what we call Emerging Historians and what that means is that the person is mid-thirties or under doing good work in the community as a volunteer.”
Previous recipients have included Flin Flonners Don Peake and Gerry Clark who received this award in 2018 for their work in preserving and promoting the history of Flin Flon.
Nomination forms are available on the websites of the Manitoba Historical Society www.mhs.mb.ca or the Lieutenant Governor at www.manitobalg.ca. The deadline is March 3rd and the application must include a detailed description of the work the person has done and at least three letters of support for the nomination.
