Canadian History Round Up – Week of April 24th, 2016

Poster advertising the Mammoth Cheese made at the Dominion Experimental Dairy Station, Perth, for display at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago. Donald C. Beckett / Library and Archives Canada / PA-160537

The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.

Twelve “iconic” Canadian women have been shortlisted for the new bank notes – Did your favourite make the list?

Potential new finds from the Franklin Expedition

Toronto’s lost rivers

An interview with the late Ian McTaggart-Cowan, credited with introducing wildlife science into Canada’s national parks

The occupation of BC Department of Indian Affairs officers by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs in May of 1975

Dreaming of a better future for Indigenous women in Canada

Assessing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim that Canada has no colonial baggage

Reporting on Community-Based Learning at Huron University College

History Slam Podcast – Episode Eighty-Three: Disaster Citizenship

Religion and the American Invasion of Quebec in 1775

Canadian Illegal College Birth Control Handbook from 1968

Conversations between environmental and gender history in studying Indian Residential Schools

New stories from British Columbians who lived through World War One

New issues of Victoria’s Daily Colonist have been digitized. The latest go from 1920 to 1950.

Obligatory cute kitten video:

April 27th is Tell a Story Day. May you find a story you want to tell, and also find someone who knows how to listen.

A video posted by Kitten foster home Seattle, WA (@foster_kittens) on Apr 27, 2016 at 6:46am PDT

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