AMA Awards

The AMA periodically presents a number of awards including the AMA Thesis of Distinction Prize and Honourary Life Memberships in the Association for Manitoba Archives.

AMA Thesis of Distinction Prize

The AMA Thesis of Distinction Prize is awarded annually to the student(s) in the Master of Arts (History) - Archival Studies Program at the University of Manitoba, who completes and successfully defends a thesis and receives a “passed with distinction” designation as granted by the examiners in that calendar year.  In years in which the award was not given, students failed to receive the "passed with distinction" designation.  The prize is a monetary award of $300.  Past recipients are as follows:

• 1994 - Deidre Simmons, "Custodians of a Great Inheritance: An Account of the Making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, 1920-1974"
• 1995 - Brian Masschaele, "Memos and Minutes: Arnold Heeney, the Cabinet War Committee and the Establishment of the Canadian Cabinet Secretariat During the Second World War"
• 1996 - not awarded
• 1997 - Mark Vacjner, "Maintaining Our Documentary Heritage: The Challenge of Electronic Records Archives at the University of Manitoba"
• 1998 - David Horky, "Archival Perspectives on the Evolution and Organizational Impact of E-Mail System Technologies"
• 1999 - Kathleen Epp, "Telling Stories Around the 'Electronic Campfire': The Use of Archives in Television Productions"
• 2000 - Martha McLeod, "Redrawing the Boundaries of Societal Memory: Introducing a Modified Macro-Appraisal Approach at the Great-West Life Assurance and the London Life Insurance Companies"
• 2001 - Kara Quann, "Remapping Archives: Cartographic Archives in Theory and Practice at the Provincial Archives of Manitoba"
• 2002 - Karyn Taylor, "From Paper to Cyberspace: Changing Communication Technologies and the Implications for Personal Records Archivists"
• 2003 - Bronwen Quarry, "Photo-graph/Writing with Light: the Challenge to Archivists of Reading Photographs"
• 2004 - not awarded
• 2005 - not awarded
• 2006 - Diane Boyd, “Franco-Manitoban Memory Online: ‘Au pays de Riel’ as a Case Study in Archival Public Programming”
• 2006 - Charlotte Woodley, “Nature’s Memory: Building an Appraisal Strategy for Ontario Provinicial Parks, Algonquin Provincial Park as a Case Study”
• 2007 - Heather Beattie, "'The Texture of the Everyday': Appraising the Values of Women's Diaries and Weblogs"
• 2007 - Katherine Timms, "Arbitrary Borders? New Partnerships for Cultural Heritage Siblings - Libraries, Archives and Museums: Creating Integrated Descriptive Systems"
• 2008 - not awarded
• 2009 - Alicia (Ala) Rekrut, "Reconnecting Mind and Matter: Materiality in Archival Theory and Practice"
• 2011 - Margaret Anne Lindsay, "Archives, Willard Ireland, Regina v. White and Bob, and Calder v. The Attorney General of British Columbia, 1963-1973, and the expansion of Aboriginal rights in Canada"

Honourary Life Memberships

On occasion, the AMA awards honourary life memberships in recognition of a long-time member's service and leadership in the Association and to the development of Manitoba’s archival community.

Honourary Life Members include:

• Anna-Grace Diehl
• Shirlee Anne Smith
• Lawrence Klippenstein
• Elizabeth Blight
• Anne Crossin
• Diane Haglund
• Sister Hélène Chaput (deceased)

For more information contact Martin Comeau, Chair, Membership Committee