WINNIPEG- Congratulations to Great Plains author Alfred Silver, who was honoured with the Manitoba Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Award for Local History on Sunday! The Margaret McWilliams Award, one of Canada’s oldest literary prizes, was instituted in 1955 as a memorial to Margaret S. McWilliams by her husband, former Lieutenant Governor Roland F. McWilliams. The purpose of the award is to encourage the study and interpretation of the history of Manitoba.

Silver’s A Place Out of Time is a gripping historical fiction set in the last days of the Red River Settlement. Told from the point of view of ordinary citizens, the story also brings to life key historical figures such as Louis Riel, Dr. John Christian Schultz, and Joseph Howe.